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Exactly. There is no need to decide to "rough it" and end up being bear bait. Tenderfeet (foots?) don't do well in the wild without a guide and an ability to follow instructions to the letter. My step-daughters have lived in Alaska since they were small and their father was still active duty. They have small planes, as do most who need to travel any distance in a reasonable period of time. I have hundreds of pictures of the grandkids with salmon that are as large as themselves. It's a truly beautiful place.

It's also a good idea to have a pilot's license and a small plane if you plan on doing any bear/moose/Caribou hunting. Hunting licenses for non-residents can be very expensive and game wardens are zealous about enforcing rules and regulations. Wanton waste violations (taking only the desirable parts of a kill) are punished with harsh and expensive fines and jail time. The weather is a cruel mistress and it's best to stick with someone who is a local or longtime resident.

I loved her from the jump when she declared that Italians eat a lot of dried pasta. This was in the middle of the fresh pasta craze and I thought making one's own spaghetti was crazy. It turns out, Marcella agreed.

Seconded. They are the Master the Art . . . of Italian cooking. Until I came across Marcella's books, I had only had Italian-American food. Talk about an eye-opener and a world was discovered for me and my lucky family. I think I cooked solely from her books for at least three years.

Definitely sugar cookies or gingerbread. Shortbread can be cut, as well, but it is fragile to handle. Try to find a recipe that doesn't have leavening like baking powder or very many eggs. A lot of Scandinavian cookies are crisp and don't rise, either. They are also not very sweet and keep for a long time in a tin.

See above, cakewalk. PM.

Thanks! It's been a while since I sliced up Miss Sheep's eyes and I couldn't remember. You could save them out and use them for game pieces.

I didn't know that, Kenneth. That's a great piece of trivia.

Way to Godwin this thread. Traditional marriage adherents have recourse to the law. Gay couples do not have the same recourse. They are going to win this battle, unless someone can successfully argue that they are less than human. You have staked out an indefensible position. This is one of those "better get used to it" social changes that seems to happen every couple generations. Lester Maddox and his followers in Georgia had to get used to it, too. (Can't believe they elected him governor. But I will grant that he did a fairly good job as governor. Funny how things work out.) No one is being rounded up (Nazis and Communists), made to wear identifying marks (Nazis and Communists), put in camps or prisons (Communists and Nazis), killed (Muslims), or symbolically gang-raped (Muslims). The only intolerance on display is that to traditional marriage and its adherents. ____________________________________________________________ Hardly. I let you wave your strawmen around and didn't call you on it. I'm not going to talk about this on this thread. Talk to me in a PM since this will all get deleted soon enough. *I don't know what happened to the quote boxes.

No one is being rounded up (Nazis and Communists), made to wear identifying marks (Nazis and Communists), put in camps or prisons (Communists and Nazis), killed (Muslims), or symbolically gang-raped (Muslims). The only intolerance on display is that to traditional marriage and its adherents.

There is a debate whether you like it or not. And this is not the forum for it. There is no such thing as settled law, either, or we'd still have slavery, debtor's prisons, public hangings and witch burnings.

I don't understand - why should the corneas be extracted?I'm think of the hard little discs (lenses?) as corneas. Am I using the wrong word? I don't want to haul out my anatomy text.

Amen. I love that she is so strict about technique. I learned so much from her books and magazine articles.

While the oceans may be connected, more than two thirds of the planet is covered with seas. Just as you're not going to find Italian marble in Florida, you most likely aren't going to find salts with the same trace minerals or elusive flavors in Galveston as you would in Brittany. There are gigantic salt mines in the US that are large enough to have their own roads and vehicles underground. (I would market that salt as "hand-mined".) Mike Rowe's show "Dirty Jobs" did an episode about them. It was fascinating.

I have all of those. Splattered with sauces and dearly loved.

Yes, they do taste different from one another. It's one of the things that makes tasting different salts or cooking with Himalayan salt blocks fun. Iodized salt was introduced to correct dietary deficiencies in some populations. Naturally, if you have an iodine allergy, you should avoid it.

So, when you prepare these eyes, must you excise the corneas?

Oh no! Rest in peace, Marcella.

I thought the big deal with infant formula was that it wasn't being prepared properly by the population it was distributed/sold/donated to. Too much (probably contaminated) water and not enough formula powder was the problem as I recall. It seems there was a huge push going on for all new mothers to breastfeed then, too, in the western world. The mothers were starving and the formula was a supplement for the infants that was not prepared as directed.

I'm with you OliverB. I have a collection of them and they are fun to play with. My eldest likes them too. I buy them for him as gifts so he can show off when he is cooking for women in his bachelor pad.

I think Heidi is right. I can't eat pine nuts without having an allergic reaction such as you've described. You could try making your pesto with walnuts instead and see if that works for you. Authentico isn't all it's cracked up to be if it's making you ill.

My feelings are my own and as such, I own them. Everyone else is certainly free to feel* differently, the same or be indifferent. It is the judgmental pose that many take that is galling. I am not you, so I won't tell you what to think. I would appreciate the same courtesy. *I really dislike that. Try thinking, not feeling.

The Smithsonian sells a book called "The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible!" It's about how adulterated food was in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Milk was watered down and colored with chalk. Butter was cut with other, cheaper fats. Spoiled meats were sold. It's a story as old as tombs. I often buy bulk spices from Mexico at the market since they are inexpensive. I have wondered what may really be in them, though.

Fantastic picture! Did these eyes belong to cow's? Goats? Sheep? Pesky neighbors?

Guido Barilla is entitled to his opinion, even if some here don't like it. He makes fantastic pasta, I have been buying it for years and I will continue to do so. I'm getting really tired of the belligerent attitude of those who would tell the rest of use the "correct" way to think and "feel" about things. He was asked a question on Italian media and he answered it. In a country that is home to Dolce and Gabbana who have, though gay themselves, expressed horror at the idea of gay "marriage", this isn't a big deal. He didn't stand up and get all hatey about gays, he just said that sacral marriage to him is the traditional family unit. Leave him alone and stop trying to jamb everyone into the same box.