Monday, plomeek; Tuesday, plomeek...and on the Sabbath a plomeek kugel!

[full_metal_ox]

This fanficrants discussion of how there's got to be more to Vulcan cuisine than plomeek soup offers suggestions and links that might be of interest to this community: http://fanficrants.livejournal.com/10830817.html

Comments

[gehayi]

And, if you want to invent some Vulcan food, here are some examples of Vulcan plant life, according to stogeek.com.

[full_metal_ox]

Thank you for that useful fannish reference; since the glossary lists "plom" as a blanket tern for vegetables in general, that strongly implies that plomeek soup is simply a non-specific vegetable soup ("Ummm---what kind of plant does minestrone grow on?")

[pargoletta]

Just writing in to say that this Yiddish speaker absolutely adores this post title (though you've totally given me an earworm). I would so cook a plomeek kugel, given half a chance.

[full_metal_ox]

Strange to relate, I'm a Gentile; this is the sort of thing I've picked up from listening to Sound and Spirit (under the aegis of Ellen Kushner) and keeping company with the likes of rosehiptea and dungeonwriter--the latter and I once got into a discussion of what animal species in Avatar: The Last Airbender would be kosher.

[full_metal_ox]

And, having obtained Dungeonwriter's permission to quote the (friendslocked) discussion:

FULL METAL OX:....imagine the bureaucratic headache of submitting the various game species available in the Avatarverse for kashruth approval.

(We are, after all, talking a universe in which an animal can conceivably split the hoof, chew the cud, *and* have fins and scales.)

DUNGEONWRITER: Maybe that would just make them doubly kosher?

FULL METAL OX: The above case, however, was hypothetical, since I can't think of a specific canon example; consulting Avatar Wiki, the following canonical species would seem to pass muster

[dungeonwriter]

Don't forget the wonderful Airbenders who are all vegetarian. Provided I stayed at temple, my family would do fine. Egg custard is eminently kosher!

I wonder if fire flakes are kosher. They sound tasty.

Sadly, no WT food will do unless it's seaweed or most fish. We don't do blubber from seals, penguins or walruses.

[browngirl]

I think the person who recommended considering Indian cuisine had a really good idea. The variety of techniques, ingredients, and resulting dishes that are vegetarian or even vegan is absolutely astonishing.

Also, wrt the "what IS plomeek" question, I remember reading in a tie in novel how a character became a plomeek farmer.

[full_metal_ox]

I think the person who recommended considering Indian cuisine had a really good idea. The variety of techniques, ingredients, and resulting dishes that are vegetarian or even vegan is absolutely astonishing.

What better model, given that India is a hot country (some of whose regions and seasons are arid) and the birthplace of two major religious traditions of vegetarianism?