{"id":218,"date":"2005-06-15T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2005-06-15T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T11:43:10","slug":"cou-cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2005\/06\/cou-cou\/","title":{"rendered":"Cou Cou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;ve gotten comments on my write ups about the <a href=\"\/food\/int\/\">different cuisines<\/a> I have explored.  Mostly they are complimentary, but sometimes people are very offended at what I&#8217;ve written and want to set me straight.  For example, I got a lot of hate mail regarding my write up of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/appalachia\/\">Appalachian cuisine<\/a> &#8211; apparently a newspaper columnist there organized a letter writing campaign to let me know how offended they were at my thoughts.  My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/assyria\/\">Assyrian<\/a> menu has also generated some mail from Assyrians who tell me that I did it all wrong. They&#8217;ve promised to send me recipes so I can cook a real Assyrian meal, but so far I haven&#8217;t gotten any.<br \/>\nBut no individual recipe has received more comments than my recipe for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/int\/barbados\/coucou.html\">coucou<\/a>, a cornmeal dish eaten throghout the Caribbean.  Apparently I did it all wrong.  Here is the last e-mail I&#8217;ve gotten on the subject.<br \/>\n&#8220;Of course you, probably a white woman, would find the dish bland but if you were a native you would understand that cou-cou is not a stand alone dish.  The national dish of Barbados is &#8220;cou-cou and flying fish&#8221; and like mash potatoes and gravy, the flavor of the cou-cou comes from the gravy of the fish.  If you do not have flying fish, you could use any other steamed fish, liver, etc. anything that makes a good gravy.<br \/>\nIf the picture on your website is the result of what you made no wonder it was bland cause it looks like poop which means you probably made it wrong.<br \/>\nHappy recipe hunting but next time maybe you should stick to hamburgers and french fries.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;ve gotten comments on my write ups about the different cuisines I have explored. Mostly they are complimentary, but sometimes people are very offended at what I&#8217;ve written and want to set me straight. For example, I got a lot of hate mail regarding my write up of Appalachian cuisine &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feedback","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}