Gifted Gourmet

Just a moment please, the French don't eat by necessity? Is there something superhuman about them that we need to better comprehend??

But that view of the Golden Gate Bridge has to be worth something perhaps??

article from San Francisco Gate Is this possibly something new or has the price of milk been escalating more recently, Bay area eGulleteers? Are you surprised by this report? Or is this yet another typical high cost thing so very typical of this area which you have gotten comfortable in accepting? Let's hear your "take" on this!

the article Everything you eat after 9 p.m. turns to body fat read on ... Gelatin helps you grow stronger fingernails maybe more info please ... Eating high-acid fruits, such as grapefruit or pineapple, speeds up your metabolism and causes weight loss. ... see what you think after this ... yet more myths in this article ... Anyone have a myth he or she cherishes but can't actually prove? or perhaps can prove? This is not the thread about food superstitions ... more scientific than that, hopefully!

Here you will find the collection of digests for a number of media which are located in the Southeastern states. This week's Southeastern Forum Digest includes, in alphabetical order, by city: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an excellent article on meatless barbecues: New recipe ideas I have not yet even considered can be found here for ... Smoky Tomato Salsa Twice-Grilled Stuffed Zucchini Mushroom and Mozzarella Kebabs Grilled Corn With Chipotle Butter Figs With Cinnamon Cream Grilled Falafel Sandwiches Asparagus Salad With Roasted Red Pepper and Shaved Parmesan Atlanta Creative Loafing has an article on the reopening of Soto, which has been discussed in a thread here on eG in the Southeast Forum ... The article is an excellent picture of why so many Atlantans adore this place and the man himself!and then there is an article which I found most revealing: a review of Lush and an update (below it) on Bazzaar .. from Richard Blais: First about the vegetarian Lush: and then Bazzaar: Classic Blais!! All of the Atlanta reviews made me absolutely desirous of enjoying these new and reopened places .. the choice by CL is without a doubt, delirious! Access Atlanta from the AJC reviews Rathbuns, a new restaurant which shows definite promise: as I said, all of the reviews this week are worth reading, no matter where you live! The Charleston Post and Courier has a mouth-watering article by the noted cookbook author, Natalie Dupree, on her grandmother's cooking and most appropriately subtitled "southern comfort": The Charlotte Observer opens its food section with a Kathleen Purvis article Cooking words are a question of taste, which has reference to a link from eGullet which you all will recall most vividly: If this sounds familiar, it should be .. once again, Kathleen Purvis always seems to get it just right .. do yourself a favor and read on ... and her second article here is equally interesting: it will open your eyes in several different respects ... I knew so little about Wilmington until I read this.Charlotte Creative Loafing this week offers an article on a new Indian restaurant, Namaste India Bar and Restaurant , which has become quite a local magnet for foodies: Another article on rose wines also is well worth reading: Following this are several recommendations by the author: Pedroncelli 2003 Zinfandel Rose Sonoma County Iron Horse 2003 Rosato di Sangiovese Alexander Valley Chateau de Parenchere 2003 Clairet Rose Bordeaux and Beckmen 2003 Grenache Rose Santa Ynez Valley Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal has an article on Asian cuisines which is interesting for a variety of reasons: The article enumerates the dishes typical of each cuisine Memphis (Tenn) Commercial Appeal is running an article, and don't tune me out until you hear the entire story, on gelatin salads: See? Didn't I promise you something new and interesting in gelatin salads? The Nashville Tennessean has a piece on some local places with the event, date, cost, and website for information: Spirited drink tasting events invite you to whet your whistle Third annual Music City Brewers Fest Nashville on the Rocks Second annual Wine on the River The St Petersburg (Fla) Times has a piece on coconuts with a recipe for coconut panna cotta that looks cooling yet simple to prepare ... The News Observer from the Triangle has the article on heirloom tomatoes which Varmint started a thread about this morning here at eG: Varmint's thread There is another article on the treatment to freeze shrimp from the same online source: here This winds up the Southeastern Forum Digest for the week ... will update as more newsworthy articles appear. Enjoy your reading, check back often for updates, and stay cool .. after all, this is the summer! Gifted Gourmet

Creative Loafing Atlanta this week on Blais newest: Bazzaar now for the update on what this thread has been discussing at length ... do scroll down to the article:

but remember to go very heavy on the paprika!

Soto reviewed in Creative Loafing this week! Now you will more clearly see why the locals absolutely adore this man and his sushi!

To say that food has been a 'passport to another world' for me, rather sums my philosophy up neatly ... my food is sensual and evokes memories and pleasures .. if not, why eat at all?

Thank you for bringing this article on heirloom tomatoes to our attention, Dean! I find myself most impressed with the logic displayed by Jim Currin, especially when he says that he would not grow tobacco because that had been responsible for health problems in his personal life as well in as in the lives of many others. And I have now gotten very desirous of checking out different types of heirloom tomatoes here locally, since his won't be offered this far south ..

I don't think of them as "gourmet dogs" exactly but note, with no small amount of pleasure, that they are available here in Atlanta as well! Thanks for asking, alacarte ..it opened up a new world of hotdog happiness!

List of places to purchase these hot dogs

Still thinking about whom I would enjoy cooking a meal for and have concluded that it would be Thomas Jefferson .. now, the rationale.. Surely, he would truly enjoy a meal I had prepared for him since he truly understood the food he ate and enjoyed so deeply ... I love to cook for someone who appreciates what he or she is eating!

What do you call cheese that doesn't belong to you? Nacho cheese!!! ... Okay, seriously, or not so seriously, there is Drunken Goat from Spain: better?? and then there are some German varieties of sour curd cheeses, like Harz and Mainz... which sounds like a burlesque comedy team ...

No, how about Guy le Gros?? using more eG's than desired, no doubt ...

Thanks for saying this .. I agree .. it has given us an inner perspective on our fellow eGulleteers which we had never expected ...

thread with some cool ideas ... I say add bourbon irrespective of the rest of your ingredients ... couldn't hurt and a lovely addition!!

Carolyn Tillie, you minx you, the visual on this Last Supper (gratuity included for such a large group??) left me in hysterics!! Thank you for making my day!

Thank you, once again, docsconz, for explaining things in language we all can comprehend and act upon ... Farewell, Sanjay Gupta, CNN doctor deluxe, and welcome to eGullet medicine from our own docsconz! Now back to my beloved Prilosec ... your validation makes it my antacid of choice (used sparingly however!)

No, but there is this:

I have had similar ideas .. but you have analyzed the question beautifully here! Also would have a great deal of trepidation about cooking for someone with a culinary background ... for many of the same reasons ... and I like the idea of a typically American meal ... I would like to do something "California-esque" for someone who had never been there, or was used to heavy European cuisines of their day .. perhaps a Mandarin emperor? or maybe Cardinal Richelieu? Or Benjamin Disraeli ... have to keep thinking this out ... oh, I nearly forgot, Bill Clinton .. something from the 60's but modernized and sooo chic ... How about an American meal for Christopher Columbus to "show him the denouement" of his explorations ...

And, as luck would have it, I graduated from the University of Illinois back in the seventies! and remember how their school of agriculture and school of animal husbandry won numerous awards for excellence!

Varmint had some lobster ice cream on his recent trip to Maine and was less than impressed ...

But with the caveat to "strain, strain, strain!" .... not about constipation but the kernels here!

Laura Fraser's Salon article replete with the various theories on the "French paradox" which include a garlic-onion, red wine, olive oil etc. "solutions" to explain the theory ... interesting indeed!!