Mabelline

Okay....Interview With the Vampire(bite my neck, sweetheart)...Silence of the Lambs...Goodfellas...

How about Scarface when Tony Montana freaks TOTALLY out in the restaurant?

Some friends of mine have that 'store' in Red Lodge, Montana, where she bought the wind devas, and they are about to die of embaressment. Seems that quite a few folks have come in there lookin' for them "Sandy things".

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe.

We need to quit beating each other up. Come on, we all love food, and we oughta be helping each other out to the best eats, and if they're cheap, so much the better. I have known some very rich folks, that pinched pennies till they squeaked. By the way, fifi is right about the melting 18 hour brisket. sorry. The truth hurts.

Isn't the whole point in having Sandra Lee do this on tv that the rest of us are spared? I mean, why have ritual sacrifice if others have to suffer? I just want to see what the stuff tastes like. Surely it couldn't be as vile as it all sounds. No, no...we cannot with a clear conscience let you put yourself in jeopardy like that! We fully aknowledge the sacrifice you are willing to make...but stop and think! What about your mate, your progeny,YOUR future?

Artichokes with a zipper. Citrus that does not get you in the eye. Tomatoes that peel themselves. OOOOhhhh!!! Meat that stops cooking when it is perfectly done! Milk that doesn't go bad.Egg whites that always whip up perfectly...

It may just be my fevered brain, but don't most prepared prepackaged things kind of smell like perfume??? They do to me; they just don't smell like food, with a capital F.

JPW- for deep fried lemon slices, are they in a tempura batter? Avgolemonos-greatstuff!

Hear, hear- it has never been about our diet----it HAS been about what we have allowed Talkin Heads to tell us what we need to eat, or abstain from...

OK. I'm into heresy tonight, but I hate to see good money blah, blah, blah. There's a place for re-enactors and N.A.'s to get the supplies for the frontier type stuff. Amazon needs to get with it. Right now they've got the blanks of Damascene steel for like 40 some bucks. Make your own.

Well, now that's how it's sposed to be. Big cone pan, high heat, stir all the ingredients real good, done, there you go. The major problem most Anglos have is that we are not hard-wired to high, concentrated heat. We have not ever lived in a society where heat is limited, and a very short-natured thing.But I still stand by heavy steel, heat that puppy up,keep on oiling it and you will end up with something you could love.

Oh, my, this will sound vey superficial, but when I was hospitalized, I was restricted really severely on my diet, so of course what did I crave...bingo, exactly what I could not have. Not having the ability to eat a food in it's raw state is spooky, to say the least. We are taught from the get go that raw, natural foods are healthy, but that does not always hold true. There are quite a few highly respected researchers who report that not only is raw foods a bad idea, they are actually worse than a state of bulimic behavior...

Okay, I am out here just treading water. Because I want you all to eat healthy, I DO , but what am I gonna do against gov. restrictions? What if it means the difference in me losing everything my family built over three generations? Tell me what to do, you all?

lamington, I don't reckon I'll be running into you at a raw restaurant, right? This is no joke, folks, there are people who can not tolerate not only raw foods, but the way we raise raw foods.

I wonder if they are the black and white ones?!

That was indeed a cogent question.

jhl- believe me right now-if I had disposable bucks, I'd be goin' for as good as it got...no question!!

OK, far be it for me to disagree, but there was a reason I suggested like I did. Most people do not understand metalleurgy. If Marlene has warped a skinny wok, I suggest a plain steel or easy-heat wok, because I think we are all agreed the heat's the thing- but I'm only a certified welder by trade.

Advertise in the local paper!

Moopheus, sweetheart, sit down, take this brown paper bag and start takin' deep breaths, in and out, that's right, now you just don't worry your head about folks like her; they're crazy and they'll go away.......

Marlene, do you have an Asian market close by? Because for high heat and efficient cooking, go for the real ugly looking ones. I know the type you've grown out of and it's the standard for Anglos to get. Find any Asian you can, ask where they'd buy one.

Welcome to eG, oatmeal. I know what you are talking about with the room freshener effect!

Mudpuppie, I officially adopt you right now. It's a hard thing to say no, I'd like tea, when people have previously seen you drink something, and just figure you're a wuss. You do not want to get into meds. at a get-together, but I feel like at a restaurant there is no question, in this day and age-they should accept a non-imbiber, no crap on the side.

Good Earth Original is like that Portland Spice Market, or something. But Good Earth Chai is good. Does anybody else in the universe add cracked black peppercorns to chai? Man, I am addicted to extra black pepper to chai...