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The Butler

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  1. PURSLANE! Spieler! The Butler enjoyed this very much and fills his pantry with the stuff each visit to the greengrocer. Thanks to the NYTimes his omega 3 essential fatty acid level has skyrocketed and he has eaten some lovely salads.
  2. We went for a birthday to Mangal 2 due to Marlena Spieler's recommendation on an earlier thread.It was fantastic.The lachmajoun was nice-the thin dough thingie with the lamb topping.The staff are exeptionally friendly.Eating there was like being in Turkey- grilled meat lashings of differing veggie salads.They also made a surprise bday cake.Even got to say good evening to Gilbert or was it George ?Turnip juice good too-Ibelieve it comes in either mild or spicy versions. The Butler Anything else Sir?
  3. your chile relleno sounds wonderful. The Butler aka Unkle fritz
  4. There are different types of purslane. In the New York Times article we are discussing, Marlena Spieler writes that there are up to 40 varieties. You may not be aware of these different varieties and their characteristics. For the purposes of our exchanges in this context, we might say that there are two types of purslane, slimy (or my preferred term, viscous) or not slimy... both are delicious. As for other vegetables with similar qualities, may I draw your attention to okra and cactus? The Butler "Are you being served?"
  5. she also wrote an article for the New York Times about the cheesemonger at Balducci who grew up on a farm in Bangladesh. It was a touching portrait of a man with a passion, talent, and inborn understanding of cheese, from the animals to the aging to the eating. The Butler "Lets get but-ling"
  6. Totally endorse the above and thoroughly enjoyed the whole article on purslane, especially the part about its progression from sour to sweet as the day progresses as I for one did not know that. Well done to hard-core foodie, our own ever-charming egulleteer Marlena Spieler who wrote the piece which appeared in the New York Times 5th July. The Butler "Dinner is served"
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