[HN Gopher] The Oldest Cookbook in Korean
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       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.
        
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