Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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, > "stone soup" is indeed a traditional portuguese tale. besides a couple or so of international variants, including the Grimm bros. version, the actual soup can be ordered on the most typical restaurants at the location of Almeirim (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almeirim) -- actually it's a very thick and rich soup, a complete meal on its own ;) cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
