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    Korean Dining Etiquette

    in Elsewhere in Asia/Pacific: Cooking & Baking

    Posted

    When we go for bulgoki with my friend Aescha, she

    never mentioned not eating rice with chopsticks; I'll

    ask her next time I see her. Last time we went out,

    she put rice in her tea. Anyone else ever see or here of this?

    I haven't, but I have a fairly narrow realm of experience. I used the

    metal chopsticks for the first time on my last visit. I need to work on my

    dexterity! :laugh:

    Hanger Steak

    in Cooking

    Posted

    I worked with a sous chef who insisted it wasn't a cut of meat at all.

    (Probably because Bourdain said it was preferable to filet mignon.)

    As for the great "a" or "e" spelling, I go for the "a". meow, meow.

    Embarrasing Libations

    in Spirits & Cocktails

    Posted

    I went to her house and she offered me a glass of Wild Irish Rose.  I asked her how long she'd been living under a bridge. :unsure:

    Did you go in the alley and drink it next to the dumpster?

    To really enjoy "The Rose" I heaped

    all my belongings into a shopping cart.

    Then I befriended a stray dog which I tethered

    to the cart with some twine. I had the good fortune

    of finding a bottle of "the Rose" in some shrubbery, still

    in its protective brown bag. All the prime spots by my favorite

    dumpster were taken, so I started a fire in a 50 gallon drum not

    far away. The air was thick with the sweet perfume of public urination and

    the fetid rot of the rendering plant. I raised the nectar to my dry lips and

    let it roar down my throat. Just as the sweet burn blessed my ulcer, I met with

    a stiff kick from a Fred Durst lookalike...

    Embarrasing Libations

    in Spirits & Cocktails

    Posted

    My mom always insists on trying my red wine. Then she makes a grimace and

    shakes. She's more of the Wild Vines school which frightens me. I went to her house and she offered me a glass of Wild Irish Rose. I asked her how long she'd been living under a bridge. :unsure:

    A Cook's Tour

    in Food Media & Arts

    Posted

    Kickass, I'm really looking forward to all the new shows. I thought the St. Martin one was fantastic.

    What was the movie he was parodying in the opening shots of the St. Martin one where's he's baking on his sun chair? I think JHlurie knows.

    It was Sexy Beast. Someone else had to jar my memory, I'd forgotten it.

    Too Much Shmutz on the Table

    in Restaurant Life

    Posted

    I used to work in a fine dining restaurant where each Sunday brunch, the restaurant insisted on putting this "centerpiece/conversation piece" on the table: a wine glass with tap water, with grapes and a baby carrot. It was time consuming and looked atrocious. The worst part is that most clientele thought it was some sort of appetizer or finger bowl.

    What are you reading these days?

    in Food Media & Arts

    Posted

    I always have my nose in Food Lover's Companion; especially when reading here.

    Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

    A Life of Her Own by Emilie Carles

    Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (coming highly recommended from

    Bourdain)

    Kitchen Confidential was an incredibly fast read- 2 sittings and I was done

    and heralding it to all my friends and coworkers; same with A Cook's Tour.

    Glassware

    in Wine

    Posted

    I have a set of Riedel Bordeaux glasses. The lip is extremely thin, the bowl itself formidable, and makes a pleasant "ping" when struck. Anyone else have a fetish for nice glassware? Any thoughts on the 'proper wine glass' enhancing the wine?

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