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"William Black" <william.black@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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I've just got back from a weekend's re-enactment in Sheffield where we
had a seventeenth century Portuguese dish called Vindaloo, which isn't
anything like the modern Vindaloo served up in Indian restaurants.
How did it differ?
Essentially the modern one is a very hot curry made with potatoes,
because they mistranslated the name and thought it was in Hindi and not
Portuguese. The older one is a 'hot' pickle 'vindaloo' being a corruption
of the Portuguese words for vinegar and garlic.
It'll keep for months in a sealed jar was used by seventeenth century
Portuguese sailors returning from Goa as rations on their ships.
Hmmmmmm... Tasty. Potatoes only, no meat?
Hell of a big (UK based) US Civil War re-enactment group there, Their
camp was two regiments, all laid out in nice rows with the command
tents with appropriate colours at the junction of the two camps.
Which ACW battles do they re-enact?
No idea.
Whichever battles they do re-enact they can do it in Britain?
It's not a war where I'm terribly interested in the battles.
Battles reveal all sorts of strengths and weaknesses in units.
Mind you, one Confederate regiment, one Union.
Which was sharper and more accurate?
The Confederate infantry looked a bit too smart to me, although the
company of irregular 'bushwhackers' bedded down in a small copse had a
very nice display and looked suitably 'nasty' but with some nice details,
like the officer in full uniform but his men is an assortment of clothing,
including Union cavalry trousers, which shows that someone there has been
reading some very obscure stuff indeed. (I am interested in the
'bushwhackers' and the 'redlegs')
Several of my relatives were killed by bushwhackers, including notably one
Great-uncle in Tennessee, after the ACW [WBTS] was over. I suspect some of
my relatives were bushwhackers themselves and killed others in post-war
revenge killings, including a 1st cousin, three times removed who seems to
have ambushed and killed a Union major in 1895.
The Union infantry looked very smart, loads of nice details like stoves
in tents and a very good surgeon's tent, and their cavalry drill was
extremely good, although reading about the originals I have a suspicion
they were possibly a bit too slick.
That can be a frequent failing -- over-slickness -- gives an artificial
feeling to the performance.
DSH
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