TANSTAAFL (was: Today's New York Times)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:50 PM -0500 2/1/01, James A. Landau wrote:
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>PS. On the subject of "stroganoff", I found what is probably an incorrect
>folk etymology.  It was from a book entitled either "Siberia, Cradle of
>Conquerors" or "Cradle of Conquerors: Siberia" which consisted of seven
>hundred pages of great yarns and equally great factual errors.  According to
>this book, the Stroganoff family took its name, which means "grated", from an
>ancestor who suffered the fate of being cut up into pieces for some misdeed.
>Hence "beef stroganoff" iwould be "beef cut up into little pieces" rather
>than "beef with sour cream."

Aha.  Always wondered what those crunchy parts were.

larry