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Jinmyo--sounds wonderful. Love rosemary with lamb and there is now a ton in the garden. JasonCampbell: Yeah, to some extent. But a leg of lamb is a leg of lamb, especially boned and butterflied. If it's on special, it is in all likelihood from NZ no matter what side of pond you are on.

There's a great deal for fresh leg of lamb (C$2.99lb) at one of our local supermarkets. Any suggestions for grilling and accompaniments?

"Not cutting corners but learning how to cut and move from task to task and place to place efficiently." Especially true for the households where everyone works--the ability to move quickly, methodically and decisively to prepare a meal that is pleasing and varied from day to day means the difference between living well and just getting through life.

Less mozz?

Any sympathy from SO?

A touch acidic, but refreshing. 99 points. Please go to hell (and return with review).

Thanks for all the suggestions--they sound great. Got rushed for time, so headed for fishmonger and came back with not salmon but swordfish, tuna and scallops. Will incorporate some of your suggestions--separating out the scallops makes a lot of sense. Think I have both bacon and pancetta so may experiment. Also, rosemary is coming up in the garden, so will try that on some of the skewers. Love monkfish, but none on offer. Will try them at a later time. Thanks a lot. BTW--Will be serving Jim Dixon's roasted cauliflower for the second night running. Had to just about physically restrain my son from gulping it from the roasting pan yesterday for fear there would be none to dress the pasta. A huge hit.

They don't make no never mind about such fine distinctions in Texas.

I want to make fish skewers tonight and salmon, scallops, fresh sage and bacon sounds tantalizing. If you've tried something like this or have other suggestions, your feedback is eagerly awaited.

I wonder if they're allowed to play that in Texas now without fear of being prosecuted for counselling sodomy?

Let the good times, er, roll in cocoa.

No. I've moved on to cocoa.

Matthew B, You mention rolling in cocoa more often than I mention starving children. (And I should add that my dreams are now haunted by fat, starving children.)

Castor oil and Uma in the same Freudian thought may well be "the love that dare not speak its name without gagging."

So in an oddly Proustian way, the smell of castor oil evokes Uma? I imagine there might be times when you don't know whether you are coming or going.

In my case, probably early childhood conditioning, paying too much attention to UNICEF ads. You?

Our son, 20, has custody of the second fridge, so of course it is full of beer.

"What this country really needs is to appoint Harvard professor Walter Willet - one of the most pragmatic and learned nutrition experts currently around - to head the FDA." He might make an inspired, if unconventional subject for an eGullet Q and A.

We may not see it in our lifetime, but the one thing short of rationing that might actually reduce obesity rates is an end to cheap energy, encouraging more walking and making it prohibitive to shift meat, oils and other foodstuffs over great distances. Some of the other implications are less pleasant to contemplate.

A wartime condiment in UK (note ominous phrase "and other fish"): http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/sand.htm

It's probably one of the great understatements to say that nobody goes to an airport for the food. But if you spend any amount of time in the air, you inevitably have to spend time in airports, often a lot more than you bargained for. For diners, it's probably about the worst possible situation to be in--you're part of a large, but fleeting captive market, which means restaurants don't have to worry much about the quality of their fare or service and can gouge with impunity. Still, some places are a lot worse than others, and there are a few pleasant exceptions. Maybe familiarity breeds contempt, but the place I loathe the most is Toronto's international airport. Since it's my home airport, it's also the place where it's easiest to avoid eating, save on those occasions where flights are delayed or cancelled and the waits run into several hours. The food runs the gamut from mediocre to terrible at the several establishments in the three terminals and the markups on things like small bottles of water are truly astonishing. Heathrow, despite its vast array of eateries and other diversions, leaves me cold somehow. In Mexico, especially at the many regional airports, the food is to be avoided at all costs but officials are usually so relaxed about people wandering around with a beer in their hand that they have their own special charm. Finally, one of my favorites is Lisbon, where it is actually possible to get a very drinkable cup of coffee AND a half-decent snack. What are the culinary highs and lows that you have experienced while waiting for a flight?

"I wouldn't be surprised if the one true effective solution turned out to be drugs, the diet equivalent of Prozac or whatever." Oddly, many people find they lose weight when they take zyban for smoking cessation.

Sounds delicious. Your fridge must be working.

""If I could be allowed for a moment to limit the argument to highly civilized and educated countries and be allowed to make gross generalizations," What more appropriate for this thread than gross generalizations? We certainly don't want slender rationalizations.

McDonalds' customers may be getting fat, but as we all know, McDonalds has been struggling lately. The company's global revenues are $15 billion, compared with an annual take of $33 billion for the US weight loss industry. Instead of fending off obesity litigation claims and worrying about every other fast food upstart eating their lunch, McD's could diversify into weight loss clinics--"Billions and billions shed."