[HN Gopher] The Oldest Cookbook in Korean ___________________________________________________________________ The Oldest Cookbook in Korean Author : Thevet Score : 43 points Date : 2020-09-04 02:18 UTC (20 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.atlasobscura.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.atlasobscura.com) | dionian wrote: | even more amazing when you realize this was just the first one in | the newer Korean script, and they had much older ones in the | traditional Chinese script that was widely used by Koreans until | recently. | lehi wrote: | It's interesting to see what Old World cuisine looked like before | the spread of New World ingredients. | ginko wrote: | This cookbook is from around 1670, almost 200 years after the | discovery of the New World. | codezero wrote: | It still blows my mind how recent in history humans have been | able to pass information into the future or across great | distances. It's amazing we know anything. | ed25519FUUU wrote: | And why oral history was such an important part of so many | ancient cultures. | codezero wrote: | I've been thinking about that a lot lately (mostly in terms | of my own memory) and a fun random thing I've been thinking | of is that it's really impossible (at least to me) to | visualize something with any meaningful fidelity. I can | describe a scene, but that's just my description, it's so | blurry. | | When I hear a song I like, I can pretty much repeat it note | for note when I whistle, and it conveys really the same | feeling and meaning, but it's also a bit blurry on account of | the details getting fuzzier like lyrics, specific instruments | etc... but it feels a lot more authentic to the original | memory/experience than anything I can ever visualize. | | What I'm saying, is that I wonder if there's something | special about how spoken/vocal memory sticks vs other kinds | of memory. | dontcarethrow2 wrote: | I noticed that there is something there about vocal | compared to visual. Some years ago while messing around | memorizing/reciting pi, I always thought I imagined the | numbers visually and recited from there. I'm bilingual and | a friend asked if I can do it in my mother tongue. It was | weird, I was surprised I was struggling. I definitely | recite(in my head) in English, then I visualize the numbers | than I translate. | | It was surprising because when I was even younger I thought | I had a photographic memory, I noticed it got weak over | time and with memorizing some of pi I thought I was | bringing it back. And here I find it was mainly vocal. With | the points brought up here for oral tradition, it makes | sense that vocal memory has stayed strong. | wahern wrote: | Not just spoken, but sung. Oral histories relied on poems | and songs for a reason. (Which reason is debated.) | HenryKissinger wrote: | And now we have discussion boards like this one which will be | a goldmine for future historians. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-09-04 23:00 UTC)