Ah, yes: Cohen and his Silver Horde.<br/><br/>"These people can make a wonderful pot of soup out of a pig's whisker.  What's that tell you?"<br/><br/>Rincewind thought.  "It means that they're very good cooks?"<br/><br/>"It means that someone else pinched the rest of the pig!"<br/><br/>(paraphrased and poorly remembered exchange from Interesting Times)<br/><br/>My friend Chen, who grew up in Beijing, assures me that this is fundamentally true.  Or, as she puts it, "if it has four legs and is not a table, or flies and is not an airplane, we will eat it."<br/><br/>Other references there are soul food and barbecue.