Re: Re: † † † chopped liver--consciousness-rais ing is in order

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 3/5/04 1:25:55 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:


> my reading of this formula has always been that chopped liver is
> inferior to the really good stuff, namely foie gras.  i have absolutely
> no evidence that the everyday/elegant comparison is the actual source
> of the formula, however.
> 
> we all know that interpretations of somewhat opaque formulas can be
> idiosyncratic and quite distant from historical sources.
> 

Don't they come from two quite different culinary traditions? I don't think 
of foie gras as something I'd get in a Jewish deli, nor do I think of chopped 
liver as especially French (would not expect to find FOIE HACHE´ on the menu of 
a French restaurant). So for me, Arnold's "idiosyncratic" response would 
never have emerged.