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As requested... where to find out more about the Potluck on Sept 21st.

Ach, I feel for her. I once got Thai Hot Pepper essense in my eye. I couldn't see for several hours.

Okay, thanks for clearing that up Sebastian, especially the issue of Splenda being digestible. So I suppose its not ACTUALLY zero calories, its just close enough because of its miniscule quantity that legally its permissible to label it that way? I'm curious... do you think that this "texture" issue is something Steven Shaw and I have convinced ourselves of to explain something we don't quite have the right words for? I mean, there are probably a lot of reasons that a Valrohna chocolate bar is going to be better than even the best Carb-Free bar, and we focused pretty quickly on that idea. -------------------------------------------------------------------- fendel... see up-topic. Several of us have liked Z-Carb much more than At Last. Frankly, and I won't pull my punches, I though At Last tasted like sewage. So see if you can find Z-Carb in your area. Then again I also said that NONE of them was really good enough (yet) to serve as a real alternative to chocolate for me--a non-Atkins/non-diabetic (for the moment... my family history is just waiting to swoop down on me), so really I'm biased against ALL of them.

Okay... the other way to go about it would be to KEEP the large version around, but link to it instead of using the IMG tags. Like so: [URL=http://some web address with your photo.jpg]Click here for beautiful large lovely photo of Prime Pastrami![/URL] Of course for that (unlike overwriting the actual uploaded file) you will actually have to edit your post, which after 24 hours you need the help of a moderator to do. I'm on a 19 inch monitor, running at 1152x864, so I can only imagine what its like for someone running at say... 640x480 on a 15 inch screen (that's the minimum ANYONE ever assumes someone is running, and even then its kind of in the "strongly not recommended" column... but 800x600 is not uncommon). The point is not to diminsh your fine work, but to make sure that most people can SEE the continued discussion. Ideally, you could do both--post the reduced pictures, at say, 640x480 and ALSO link to the ones you have up there now in the same post. It's the most work, but probably worth it. EDIT - Okay, I just noticed that my last post took us onto a new page, and of course the new page isn't being affected by the large pictures on the last page. Maybe this isn't such a big deal if it only affects one page of the topic. Steven or Jason may have some more useful guidelines.

The way I understand it... Splenda (real name sucralose) is sugar (sucrose), pretty much--or at least very close. It's just bonded somehow with chlorine, and that changes enough of its properties to make it undigestible. Somehow this same change also makes it sweeter by a factor of a few hundred. The upswing is that it tastes more like sugar than most sugar substitutes, has a lot of the properties of sugar, but can't quite be used as a direct substitute. That's not necessarily a good thing, in my opinion, because as I think has been discussed here, sugar has other qualities besides sweetness--texture for one. I'm guessing what Sebastian has referred to as "bulking agents" are what's trying to "fix" that, and that may still be the weakness. Of course, if sucralose WAS present at the same quantity as sugar, it might indeed have a laxitive effect, it being undigestible.

Chef Fowke, as beautiful as those pictures are, you've got to edit them a bit and reduce them. They're too wide! 640x480, or at most 800x600, should fit. It's not really a matter of bandwidth I think, as much as the fact that they are making your wonderful topic here a bit unreadable (they are widening the columns and pushing a lot of your description off the side of the page).

Well, the question is... since it is legal in its ground and roasted form, how badly does grinding it, roasting it and preserving it in that form ruin it?

Could someone... I don't know... suggest this to the stupid FDA... Nah. It's obviously less work for the bureaucrats (and more make-work for the enforcement branches) if they simply ban it.

No... now we talk about how bad the show was instead of how bad it is. Also: - how The Restaurant 2 could be better... or worse. - how the cast members are trying to extend their "fifteen minutes" - Rocco sightings - how this has affected The Rock's show biz career... er... I mean his credibility as a Chef - how funny it is that the "Queer Eye" guys were invited to the VMAs and Rocco seemingly wasn't

1560+ views. That's no joke. I'll bet it will break 2000 within a week or two. I'm no expert, but I'm thinking about Fat Guy's criteria and they seem mostly on. Another important warning is that Pastrami CAN be overspiced. Heck, a lot of bad Pastrami is probably guilty of this--it becomes more about the crap on the outside than the meat. This may seem slightly at odds with Steven's "it shouldn't taste like just a smoked brisket" point, but all I'm really saying is that there is a happy medium somewhere.

Well the other thing about using the barn is that... well... it smelled like a barn. Not much we CAN do about that, but assuming electricity can be run around that side of the building a few fans might help, and maybe some incense.

Really "dumb" is a much better catch-all. Then again, he's made himself rich. Can't be TOO dumb. rich people do really stupid stuff too. See the phrase "made himself rich". That was the smart part. The dumb parts can follow, and have little to do with his financial status.

Really "dumb" is a much better catch-all. Then again, he's made himself rich. Can't be TOO dumb.

Huh? Me am stupid. Not get. Rocco not real charismatic geniushead likeable sex symbol with integrity? Rocco actually fake jerky cheeseball sellout climber trapped in Matrix?

Okay... this is a part of Rich's statement I can't fully agree with. The show had different purposes for different people. For Mark Burnett and NBC the point was to make money, and only as a side-product of that to entertain people. For Rocco, the point was... heck... probably money as well, but even more-so to go from being a slightly famous person to a slightly more famous person. AMEX wants small business owners to accept their cards instead of Visa, and for consumers to use their existing AMEX or Optima cards as often as possible. Coors wants to rehabilitate itself so people think that its served in fancy restaurants and isn't one step above toilet water. Topher, Gideon, Pete, Uzay and various others--well, the point was probably to get more guest starring roles on "Law & Order" going forward. Isn't it somewhat sick that we are finding our entertainment in seeing people act like idiots? Does anyone out there REALLY want Pete, for example, to be their server at any restaurant anywhere? I think not. We simply think its funny to imagine other people having to put up with his antics. I don't think there's anything wrong with thinking that "The Restaurant" toes some kind of line, because it pretends so hard to be real (and fails so spectacularly at it--but that's another subject entirely). Sure it was "unscripted". We've heard that a million and one times. But "reality"? Is Burnett's other production, "Survivor" even trying to pretend that a real group of people would gather on an island and act like that? I say again... let us be disgusted at this show if we so wish. Yes we watched it. Then again, I also watched a squirrel get run over ten times yesterday without blinking or turning away. Does this mean I want to see squirrels get run over everyday? People can hate something and yet be bound by it--humans are complex creatures in that way.

Look... yet ANOTHER person on this show with a website! Let's count... what does this add up to now? ALL OF THEM?

Yes, that was a shocker. We'd already heard it would be back, but the news that it would be back WITH ROCCO is appalling. And the sound level sounded a bit different on it too--like it was recorded at a different time.

So now not only has Rocco jumped the shark, he's just the ramp someone else will drive up over to jump the shark. It will probably be fun to try and predict who these people are, but also probably a bit of a bummer. I just hope Bourdain is working on his pal Ripert, who seemed a bit enamoured of the concept when Rocco was doing it, to STAY THE HELL AWAY.

Who ever said they where "important"? Thus the smiley and the quotes... I'm far more pleased to see these guys here than the FOH people, no offense meant to them. Many of the FOH seemed cast simply because of looks and/or dramatic background, and that didn't seem to be the case with most of the BOH people. While its true that virtually anybody can fall prey to the "Reality Show Whore" syndrome, other than letting some arguably stupid words be coaxed out of their mouths which could be edited creatively, these folks seemed to mainly be doing their jobs. In fact, I think the only reason the show has shifted from FOH people to BOH was that most of the "entertaining" FOH people quit, were fired, or acted like drama queens far too early. Its understandable that the BOH people might have expected to work side-by-side with Rocco, but I guess they are cured of that affliction now. Time to start idolizing real chefs instead of paper cut-outs.

Ah! They are doing a diet vanilla version too? Excellent. Is it aspertame sweetened or did they finally formulate a Splenda [sucralose] sweetened diet product? Unfortunately... aspertame. I have no idea why the big guys are so terrified of sucralose.

The easy thing would be to recommend you post this on the Restaurant thread on the media board (Click here), but clearly there IS a difference between the show and the actual restaurant, their actual menu and what is going onto our TVs. Is this (click here) the Rosalie you are referring to?

Full path for THAT search (216 results): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-...let.com+Adria+]

Tried the non-diet Vanilla Pepsi last week and was reasonably impressed (well "impressed" for mainstream soda at least). Miles better than Vanilla Coke, although that bar is pretty low. Far from perfect (I'd still take a homemade Vanilla Coke mix in most cases), but it just goes to show how much more on the ball Pepsico is than Coca Cola. Tried the Diet variety today and was actually even more impressed. It's hard to make a decent diet, and this isn't bad. Of course Stewart's Diet Orange & Cream is still probably the "Diet" king, but its good to have a third alternative besides Diet Pepsi Twist and Diet Dr. Pepper for a mainstream entry which doesn't totally suck.

The one appearance I saw from her (on an otherwise mind-numbingly boring show called "The View" I saw while flipping around the other day while on vacation--MTV and VH1 had crap on) wasn't that informative. She said something about how a mere meal's difference was enough. Lunch = carbs, Dinner = Fats or vice-versa. As long as the two didn't get digested within a few hours of each other. Then they changed the subject to her battle with breast cancer, so it stopped being relevent to this issue, and I insensitively changed the channel. And then I found out that "Gilligan's Island" can be seen virtually anytime if you flip enough channels. And then I went out and had lunch--carbs AND fats.

Good lord. Between Rocco, Emeril and Martha all of the "important" people must really hate eGullet. Well if you look in The eGullet Fridge at least we've got a few friends...