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Text Box: two hours. Drain well. Place in a large bowl along with chilies and onion. Mix shrimp powder with oil and salt. Add to salad. Squeeze lime juice over the top. Ame Huat 1 lb lean steak, cut into strips ginger 1 T coriander, ground 2 tsp cumin 2 tsp salt 1 tsp turmeric 1 tsp fennel, crushed ½ C coconut milk Oil Mix spices into a paste and add to coconut milk and 4 tablespoons of oil. Marinate the strops with the mixture, ensuring that all are evenly coated and allow to rest for at least 30 minutes. Thread the strips of meat onto skewers and brush with more oil. Roast over fire until dark brown and slightly crisp. Brush with marinade often during cooking. Serve with a hot chili sauce. Sago 3 C water ½C tapioca 1½ C coconut 2 C palm sugar Pinch of salt

Text Box: Boil 1¾ C water. Add tapioca and salt. Dissolve sugar in 1 cup of water When the tapioca becomes transparent, add in sugar. Boil for a few mintues, then pour into a shallow buttered pan and allow to cool. Mix coconut with a pinch of salt. Scoop out spoonfuls of set sago and roll in coconut to coat. Burmese Veggies With Hot Peppers 3 T oil 1 1/2 C Bell peppers, red -- sliced 1/2 C Bell peppers, green -- sliced 1 1/2 C Snow peas 1 1/2 C Bok choy -- sliced 2 T Leeks, baby -- sliced 1 C Carrots -- thinly sliced 1Garlic clove -- sliced 1/8 tsp Chilies, red, fresh -- chopped 4 tsp Tamari In a large saucepan or wok, heat the oil over high heat until hot but not smoking. Toss in the vegetables and seasonings and stir-fry for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring 3 to 4 times; the vegetables should be crunchy. Remove from the heat and serve with brown rice.

Text Box: Sebastian Erard was born in Strasbourg on 5th April 1752, and his name was originally spelled Erhard. He moved to Paris in 1768 and worked for an unknown harpsichord maker. Erard wanted to explore the fundamentals of instrument making, and it soon became apparent that he was a genius at finding ways around mechanical problems, a skill which came to the attention of the Abbé Roussier. His success as an instrument maker caused envy among his rivals who accused him of working outside the corporation without a licence. Louis XVI protected him and granted him a licence on his own authority. In 1777 Erard made his first square piano; it was probably a copy of an English Zumpe piano. A portrait of Erard was shown at the International Inventions Exhibition of 1885. Once his reputation was established, Erard persuaded his brother-in-law to join him in Paris. Their first pianos were squares with bichords throughout, and a five-octave compass. Erard made a combination of piano and organ with two keyboards for Marie Antoinette. The revolution of 1789 destroyed his business in Paris and in 1792 he opened a factory in Great Marlborough Street, London. Apparently he left his brother Jean-Baptiste to carry on the French branch. According to the London Post Office Directory, he opened an English branch as early as 1786, at 18 Great Marlborough Street, London. However, this may have been just for selling instruments at first. In 1802 they moved to 189 Regent Street, and then in 1804 to 158a New Bond Street, London. According to popular belief, Sebastian returned to Paris in 1796, leaving his nephew Pierre to carry on the London firm. This cannot be correct, however, as Pierre was not born until 1796. He died in 1855. Sebastian appears to have come back to London in 1801, as he took out a patent in England (number 2502) on 16th May 1801, for an improvement on the piano action. However, the bulk of this patent submission is taken up mainly with the harp. This represented some of the groundwork for his double-action harp. The harp seemed to be more important to him than the

Text Box: piano. If you look at most of the patent registrations from Sebastian, the harp comes first and the piano is just added on in the patent submission. There are exceptions to this in the cases when he took out patents for musical instruments only. On the covers of the submissions it says pianoforte and harp. Yet, when one reads the contents of any of these the harp is given preference over the piano. Perhaps this should not be so suprising, since Sebastian sold £25,000.00 worth of harps in the first year of the release of the new double-action harp. Finally, in June 1810, after eight years of working on it, Sebastian Erard patented the double-action harp with seven pedals (number 3332). This is regarded by most people as the date of the invention of the concert harp. The instrument had one pedal for each note. Each pedal had three positions or two notches, which raised the pitch of the note by a semitone for one notch, or a tone for both notches, by moving the top bridges to shorten the speaking length of the strings. This harp could be considered more versatile than the piano, since with the use of the pedals a player could get 21 pitches to the octave, while with the piano 12 was the limit. It is reported that Erard did not undress for three months before his harp was finished, snatching meals with pencil in hand and sleeping for an hour now and again. The concert harp of today basically maintains his design, as does the roller action for grands. He also had an eighth pedal for opening the back of the sound box, to work as a swell. At this time the harp was almost as popular in the home as the piano, and Erard made large numbers of both. He was also regarded as a master organ repairer. For more on the harp see the International Sebastian Erard Society. Erard was the first maker in Paris to fit pedals on the piano, and his instrument, like other continental pianos, had several pedals. There was the usual sustaining pedal, an action shift, a celeste, and a bassoon pedal, the latter putting leather against the strings to make them buzz. A knee lever moved the action further than the action-shift pedal, making the hammers strike only one string. According to various sources he patented a piano in the shape of a secretaire, with two soundboards, one above the other. He also invented a transposing piano, with a wooden cylindrical soundboard moved by four rollers, so that the strings of the higher or lower notes were struck by the

Text Box: Moat-hin-kar 1 lb fish 1 onion 4 cloves garlic ginger Black pepper 1 T chili powder 1 tsp salt 3 T oil 7 T fish sauce 4 onions 5 T rice powder 5 T pea powder 3 lb rice noodles green onions Green beans boiled eggs Boil the fish in two quarts of water, reserve water. Heat rice and pea powder. Mix onion, garlic, pepper, chili powder, and salt. Add the water from the boiled fish along with two more quarts of water. Add quartered onions. Mix pea and rice powders with one cup of water and add to the soup. Boil for 20 minutes. Boil and drain rice noodles, then add to the soup. Serve with green onions, beans, and boiled egg slices. Mi Mi Khaing 3 C finely cut cabbage 1 onion, sliced 3 green chilies 2 T shrimp powder 1 T oil salt 1 lime Soak cut cabbage in cold water for