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To: Win Smith who wrote (13)	11/19/2002 11:28:16 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 603

Warren Hoge, Haggis, the Food of Poets (Well, One Scottish Poet) nytimes.com [ in which Hoge goes off in a somewhat different direction from doing Le Cirque with Ruth Reichl. ] Consider the haggis and you may well wonder how it inspired a rhapsodic poem, became Scotland's national dish and touched off an incipient rebellion when Britain's food safety office hinted that it might ban it. Swaddled tightly in the yellowed stomach lining of a sheep, a mixture of congealed fat, onions, pinhead oatmeal, stock and the cut-up heart, lungs and liver of the animal has a lumpen look that even the eulogizing poet, Robert Burns, compared to the sight of bare buttocks. People squeamish at the idea of eating haggis get little comfort from Burns's description of what happens when the knife slices its intestinal skin and sends the minced offal spilling out: Trenching your gushing entrails bright, Like onie ditch; And then, O what a glorious sight, Warm-reekin, rich! . . .