Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Siwa's Ammon Stew


Chock-full of comforting, healthy ingredients, this hearty, flavorful stew is sure to brighten up dinnertime. Savor every last drop of this easy one pot and know that, when you're done, clean-up will take no time at all! Just the meal for this changeable weather. We dedicate it to the little known Siwa Oasis in Egypt where celebration of Male homosexuality dates back to the 10th millennium BC .



A wonderful stew of sausage, spinach, and beans will nourish the traveler in all of us. 


Ingredients:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound Bratwurst, casing removed
1 small onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, chopped
2 carrots, grated
1 (15-1/2-ounce) can great northern beans, undrained
3 cups cream of chicken soup
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
¼ teaspoon black pepper
2 cups fresh spinach, washed
½ lbs Large pasta, like Campanelle
Directions:



Do your cutting: chop the onion and garlic, grate the carrots, pull the stems off the spinach 



Peel the casings off the bratwurst.

In a soup pot, heat oil over high heat. Add sausage, onion, and garlic, and cook 6 to 8 minutes or until no pink remains, stirring frequently to break up the sausage. Drain.

Return to the pot and add the beans, the grated carrot and pour in the soup. Bring to a high simmer.



Add spinach buy the handful stirring and wilting it until it is incorporated.
Let simmer for 20 minutes.



Then add the pasta and let cook for another 10 minutes*


Be sure to stir it into the liquid immediately after adding it so it does not stick together.

* Notes about soup with pasta
For the best-tasting soup, it’s crucial that the pasta stay firm and doesn’t get mushy. But pasta naturally soaks up water, and it will continue to soak up whatever broth it’s sitting in, even after the soup is done. There are a few ways to minimize this.
Before you add the pasta, make sure the soup is almost done. Everything else in the soup should finish cooking in about the same short time that the pasta needs to cook. Since there are beans in the stew, be sure that they’re almost completely tender before adding the pasta. Here I am using a semolina-based pasta. It won't absorb too much liquid during that amount of time, and adding it uncooked will ensure that the pasta doesn't become too soft and sticky. However if you are using
pasta made with other ingredients, such as buckwheat, soy flour, kamut or quinoa, it is naturally stickier and softer than semolina pasta, so it's smart to cook it al dente on its own before adding.





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Siwa 

The Siwa Oasis is an oasis in Egypt, 30 mi east of the Libyan border, and 348 mi from Cairo. It is only about 50 mi in length and 12 mi wide.
Siwa Oasis is one of Egypt's most isolated settlements with about 33,000 people, mostly Berbers, who developed a unique and isolated desert culture with a distinct dialect and language different than all others called Siwi.




The Siwa Oasis was of special interest to anthropologists and sociologists because of its historical acceptance of male homosexuality.

Originally it was just known in its ancient role as the home to an oracle of Ammon, the ruins of which are a popular tourist attraction which gave the oasis its ancient name Oasis of Amun Ra. Historically, it was part of Ancient Egypt.

Although the oasis is known to have been settled since at least the 10th millennium BC, the earliest evidence of any connection with Ancient Egypt is the 26th Dynasty, when a necropolis was established. Ancient Greek settlers at Cyrene made contact with the oasis around the same time, and the oracle temple of Amun, who, Herodotus was told, took the image here of a ram. Herodotus knew of a "fountain of the Sun" that ran coldest in the noontime heat. 



During his campaign to conquer the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great reached the oasis, supposedly by following birds across the desert. The oracle, Alexander's court historians alleged, confirmed him as both a divine personage and the legitimate Pharaoh of Egypt, though Alexander's motives in making the excursion, following his founding of Alexandria, remain to some extent contested.

The Siwans are a Berber people, so they were more closely related to nearby Libya, which has a large Berber population, than to Egypt. Consequently, Arab rule from distant Cairo was at first marked by several revolts. Egypt began to assert firmer control after a 1928 visit to the Oasis by King Fuad I, who berated the locals for "a certain vice" and specified punishments to bring Siwan behavior in line with Egyptian morals.


Even in the late 1940s, a Siwan merchant told the visiting British novelist Robin Maugham that the Siwan men "will kill each other for boy. Never for a woman". He reported the Siwan women were "badly neglected", although as Maugham noted, marriage to a boy had become illegal by then.

Siwa was the site of some fighting during World War I and World War II. The British Army's Long Range Desert Group was based here, but Rommel's Afrika Korps also took possession three times. German soldiers went skinny dipping in the lake of the oracle. 



Its historical acceptance of male homosexuality and even rituals celebrating same-sex marriage are traditions that the Egyptian authorities have sought to repress, with increasing success, since the early twentieth century.

The German Egyptologist Georg Steindorff explored the Oasis in 1900 and reported that homosexual relations were common and often extended to a form of marriage: "The feast of marrying a boy was celebrated with great pomp, and the money paid for a boy sometimes amounted to fifteen pounds, while the money paid for a woman was a little over one pound."

Mahmud Mohammad Abd Allah, writing of Siwan customs for the Harvard Peabody Museum in 1917, commented that although Siwan men could take up to four wives, "Siwan customs allow a man but one boy to whom he is bound by a stringent code of obligations."
In 1937 the anthropologist Walter Cline wrote the first detailed report of the Siwans in which he noted: "All normal Siwan men and boys practice sodomy...among themselves the natives are not ashamed of this; they talk about it as openly as they talk about love of women, and many if not most of their fights arise from homosexual competition....Prominent men lend their sons to each other. All Siwans know the matings which have taken place among their sheiks and their sheiks' sons....Most of the boys used in sodomy are between twelve and eighteen years of age."

The archaeologist Count Byron de Prorok reported in 1937 that "an enthusiasm could not have been approached even in Sodom... Homosexuality was not merely rampant, it was raging...Every dancer had his boyfriend...[and] chiefs had harems of boys.

The Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed Fakhry, observed in 1973 that "While the Siwans were still living inside their walled town, none of these bachelors was allowed to spend the night in the town and had to sleep outside the gates...It is not surprising that homosexuality was common...Up to the year 1928, it was not unusual that some kind of written agreement, which was sometimes called a marriage contract, was made between two males; but since the visit of King Fu'ad to this oasis it has been completely forbidden...
However, such agreements continued, but in great secrecy, and without the actual writing, until the end of World War II. Now the practice is not followed."
Despite the many sources for these practices, the Egyptian authorities and even the Siwan tribal elders have attempted to repress the historical and anthropological record. When the Siwa-born anthropologist Fathi Malim included reference to Siwan homosexuality (especially a love poem from a man to a youth) in his book Oasis Siwa (2001), the tribal council demanded that he blank out the material in the current edition of the book and remove it from future editions, or be expelled from the community. Malim reluctantly agreed and deleted the passages in the first edition of his book, and excluded them from the second.

A newer book, Siwa Past and Present (2005) by A. Dumairy, the Director of Siwa Antiquities, discreetly omits all mention of the famous historical practices of the inhabitants.




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