kp posted:You cannot cook by accident. Cooking is a creative art or people would not eat it. Simply throwing things together and hope they turn out right is the kind of nonsense that can only come from you. All cooks start with a base and build up on it. Cookup has a base and some standard or ingredients.It took creativity to make what was not considered prime cuts into palatable cuisine.
Black pudding is a sausage and may be of European. Cow tongue and feet are also heavily used in European cuisine. Amerindians never had cows or pigs and their toma pot which is the progenitor of Pepper pot was not made with cows feet or pigs ears etc. That has to be a utilization that came from coastlanders. Obviously Indians do not care for cows and Muslims pigs so the insight has to be African cooks.
Na true, when I was a little boy ,we had a butter tin and one padna would bring rice and salt, another onion,oil pepper, another a piece of salted fish that could have been Huri or cod fish and we would pick some spinish. We would then go into the bush, OH someone had to bring old newspapers, matches, we get two big bricks to place the butter tin, add water and all the ingredients ,let it boil.As the story says, when it bun ,it done. It was the best cook up or some would say ,All In One.
The point is you had an idea as to a process. You procured rice, a fat, a protein and spices and had an idea that it might turn out to something edible. You did not chose corn as your base.