Shiva
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Does anyone know what a gill is?
An old cookbook (1859) calls for a gill of wine or a gill of yeast...
A gill is 1/2 cup.
From FunWithWine.com:
Champagne:
Magnum (1.5 litres) 2 bottles
Jeroboam (3 litres) 4 bottles
Rehoboam (4.5 litres) 6 bottles
Methuselah (6 litres) 8 bottles
Salmanazar (9 litres) 12 bottles
Balthazar (12 litres) 16 bottles
Nebuchadnezzar (15 litres) 20 bottles
Champagne Bollinger:
Magnum (1.5 litres) 2 bottles
Jereboam (3 litres) 4 bottles
Methusalem (6 litres) 8 bottles
Salmanazar (9 litres) 12 bottles
Balthazar (12 litres) 16 bottles
Nabuchodonozor (15 litres) 20 bottles
Bordeaux:
Magnum (1.5 litres) 2 bottles
Marie-Jeanne (2.25 litres) 3 bottles
Double Magnum (3 litres) 4 bottles
Jeroboam (4.5 litres) 6 bottles
Impériale (6 litres) 8 bottles
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Sweet Jeebus, Gua! That pork looks absolutely tarry on the outside!
Did it taste as smoky as it looks?
(Right click on the Imagestaion error image and click "Properties", then paste the URL into a browser window to see the pics)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid6...d2.jpg.orig.jpg
Or copy and paste the above URL into your browser.
I tend to go for an hour of smoke and then more time at low temp without smoke, and I'm not so picky about where the last few hours of cooking take place. Grill, smoker, oven, whatever ya got.
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Alton Brown's Silence of the Leg O' Lamb
A probe thermometer is very handy here.
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Sassafras range in North America:
Sassafras tree (winter):
Note the right angled (elbow like) branching. This image doesn't quite play it up enough, but Sassafras trees look like they are surrendering with their upper arms paralell to the ground and their forearms perpendicular to the ground. |_||_|
You'll find Sassafras along the edges of fields and clearings. Find small trees and dig roots under 1" in diameter.
Now where's my spade?..
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Click here, then scroll down to Scene 6 for the scoop on garlic, cell walls and allicin.
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...a nice French beer in a large bottle with a picture of a gnome on the front (name?), among others.
My local usually has 3 or 4 of their own ales and when I'm lucky they have Fuller's ESB.
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This bigos is no ordinary dish,
For it is aptly framed to meet your wish,
Founded upon good cabbage, sliced and sour,
Which, as men say, by its own zest and power
Melts in one's mouth, it settles in a pot
And in its dewy bosom folds a lot
Of the best portions of selected meat;
Scullions parboil it then, until the heat
Draws from its substance all the living juices,
And, from the pot's edge, boiling fluid sluices
And all the air is fragrant with the scent.
Adam Mickiewicz 1798 - 1855
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From Lisa the Vegetarian:
Lisa: No I can't! I can't eat any of them!Homer: Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. Lisa honey, are you
saying you're *never* going to eat any animal again? What about
bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!
Homer: [Chuckles] Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
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What Tony says, and I'll add that I've found parsnips take a lot less cooking than you'd think. They seem tougher than carrots or potatoes, but soften quicker when cooked.
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...as soon as I find some, I'm going to have a fun time cooking.
And it's been all drudgery up til now?
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The wooden peel is for placing the uncooked pizza in the oven (the pizza is less apt to stick to wood) and the metal peel is for moving and removing the hot pizza (won't burn).
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Duck or rabbit?
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Boulud ups the ante with a $50 Truffle Burger.
(Link good 1-16 only)
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What, no Primanti Brothers sandwiches?
Maybe Rick'll do a whole show on them.
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This seems like a good time to post a link to The Little Book of Meat .
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Really, how can anyone be proud of beating a worker in this day and age? Got to be kidding. I hope you were. I would be besides myself in rage if I saw that or heard that as a serious report. Tell me you are exaggerating.
Please tell me that.
They're probably paid piecework. Speed counts if that's the case.
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They're rarely seen on the street in North America, as only male Ginko clones are cultivated for landscape use these days.
As Jayask noted, the females are very messy
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The Beers of France. This book proved very handy, if a bit disorganized.
Cheers!
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It does not matter what you are cooking if you are cooking for someone you love.
See Woody Allen on masturbation.
Honestly, it's the process I enjoy. Sometimes I don't eat more than a taste of what I cook, but I'm happy to see people enjoy my creation. Ok, It's a real rush to hit a homer, I'll admit it.
Stop by for pork roast or osso buco some time.
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What's a DB Burger?
TDG: The Billion-Dollar Myth: Soy
in Food Traditions & Culture
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There are lots of apparently unsupported points in this screed until you get to the end and see a couple of crackpot cites/sites. Oh my.
I hear tinfoil beanies are helpful in preventing the Evil Big Food's soy-based brain-poisoning mind control rancidity rays from penetrating your skull. I read it on a website, so it must be true.