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Another option re: the diluted sesame oil is in the many "Asian-inspired" salads and vinaigrettes, wherever the recipe calls for both neutral oil (for volume) and sesame oil (for flavor). Taste as you go, and you can either dilute it more (if it's too strong) or reinforce it with the better sesame oil (if it's too weak) until you arrive at a flavor you're happy with.

Herbicide-resistant weeds, antibiotic-resistant bacteria...you'd almost think we were on the wrong path, or something...

"Mr. Porky" brand pork rinds have been recalled nationally for salmonella. https://inspection.canada.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2021-08-23/eng/1629769793346/1629769799290?utm_source=r_listserv

Not being a WaPo subscriber I missed this initially, but Indo-Canadian Twitter (and I guess, Indo-anything Twitter) has been up in arms over his description of Indian food as "based on one spice." In fairness, the piece was intended to be humorous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-you-cant-make-me-eat-these-foods/2021/08/12/e34996a8-efc0-11eb-81d2-ffae0f931b8f_story.html

This is not - strictly speaking - on topic as far as this specific book is concerned, but apparently she showed her form early: (I had to post this in two images, because for whatever reason my screen-grab extension doesn't seem to play well with Twitter...)

Okay, gotcha.

Well...the author does have some pretty pertinent expertise, if you scroll down and read the bio.

In the wake of the "colony collapse" panic of a decade or so ago, a lot of people took to beekeeping in the interest of sustainability, ecology and so on. In Scientific American, one entomologist argues that maybe this emphasis on (lucrative, non-native) honeybees is misplaced: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-honey-bees/

Canned bacon is very much a "thing" among the prepper community, and it commands a considerable premium over the price of regular bacon. There are plenty of examples on Amazon, so I won't bother sullying this thread with links.

FreshLine brand zucchini "noodles" are being recalled for possible listeria; currently Ontario, Quebec and NS but possibly national. https://inspection.canada.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2021-08-20/eng/1629518566353/1629518572200?utm_source=r_listserv

Vintage "bad ideas" dept:

It's a sign!

Think of the French "allumette," or "matchstick" cut. About 1/8" square.

For those who may be interested, I've tripped across a podcast series delving into Canadian food. https://tastecooking.com/untangling-canadas-food-facts-and-fictions/ I can't help but note that she passes over Atlantic Canada entirely. Quelle surprise...

I used to keep a bag on hand to add to my bread, though I haven't of late. It contains a high percentage of the grain's nutritive value, as well as a modicum of fiber, so there are certainly arguments for eating it.

Do they do anything beside the obvious (ie, making of juice)? GF and I don't drink any, and a hand-held reamer suffices for the quantity of citrus juice I use in cooking. I'm not being facetious, I'm genuinely curious if it has other uses.

"Gosh, your red velvet cake is fabulous. What's your secret?" "Well..."

I've just always used salted for everything, because until very recently unsalted butter was hard to find where I live, and cost $1/lb more. I'm unabashedly a cheap bas frugal, so that's what I went with. In the current Food Network/food blogger/Instagram era unsalted butter is now equally available and equally priced, but I still only buy it occasionally.

Not exactly a "funny" in the usual sense, but it probably fits better here than elsewhere on the site...

Wooooowwww...the kind of family outing that ends up as a post on the AITA? subreddit. Or would, given a slightly lower level of obliviousness from the in-laws.

I was at my local supermarket tonight (Sobeys) and they had a veggie pizza with - of all things - dollops of hummus as one of the toppings. It was marked down substantially, so we bought it out of curiosity (and because if we didn't like it, it would be cheap to discard). Turns out hummus works surprisingly well on a pizza, and the low-carb cauliflower-based crust was surprisingly...ordinary. You know, like any other supermarket pizza crust. Overall, it was unexpectedly acceptable.

So...now I know the Italian-American term for "compost"?

I couldn't copy this one from FB, but it was basically "food funnies meets world-class parenting": The poster had gotten tired of the same ol' "clean your rooms" fight with his teens, so he went to the store and bought a small bag of black "forbidden" rice. He scattered it in their rooms (under their beds and in the corners of their closets) then in the course of what was apparently a normal parental rant, lifted up and threw some debris in the first kid's room and discovered...rodent turds! A quick inspection of the other kid's room turned up the same evidence of vermin (gasp!) and the two grossed-out kids have become militant neat freaks.

That's the one, but this particular clip excludes the setup (like telling the punchline, but without the rest of the joke).

LOL Now I gotta find the "spaghetti" scene from Tampopo...