On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:27:48PM +0000, Folderol wrote: > We've had stone soup a few times over on the Kara-Moon forum. The trick > is knowing when to remove the stone. Too soon and the soup is thin and > doesn't develop any real flavour. Too late and it becomes thick and > lifeless. I learned about stone soup years ago, when learning Portuguese in evening class, in a text we had to study. The story went as follows: A beggar arrives at a farm, and asks for some water to make soup. He's given the water, makes a fire a starts boiling a stone. The farmer and his family are looking at the scene in disbelief. When the water is boiling, the beggar asks: "maybe you've got also a tomato or so ?" He's given a tomato. ... And some other vegatables ? ... And some mushrooms ? ... And maybe some piece of meat or chicken ? ... And some salt, pepper and 'alecrim' (rosemary) ? ... So he ends up with quite a good soup. Ciao, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
