jsolomon

How do you people eat a town?

Salt Sugar Axe Matches Copy of "Wild Seasons: Gathering and Cooking Wild Plants of the Great Plains" Two pots Water still Clean barrel and coffee... lots of coffee.

How about searching for a reasonable amount of cast-off cast-iron cookware and have a metal shop cut it into tiles for you? Then you could use a black grout or caulk between the tiles. Then your messes don't show!

To my knowledge, the best way to acquire high quality pork that has been treated right--albeit at a premium--is to support your local 4-H hog sale. Additionally, if you purchase a hog at the sale, usually there are some litter-mates that didn't make the show cut that you can buy at or close to local market price. It sows many seeds of good will among the people you purchase your pork from, and you are assisting a sprout in becoming a responsible adult.

Get a Lodge cast-iron griddle that fits over individual burners and is perfectly flat on both sides. That will work spectacularly as a "flame-tamer". When you get the chance, have a machine shop cut it to size for you. Easy-peasy.

Please continue. You have certainly piqued my interest!

The Coffee Roaster in Lincoln, Nebraska has recently branched out into espresso service, and they have a mighty tasty espresso blend that really makes a fine shot.

I have seen some of this, and I find it to be certainly intriguing and worthy of further study. I have unfortunately been too busy to spend the time to read more than the abstract, but I plan on perusing the paper this weekend. I am in 100% agreement with you here. No matter how you slice it, there are common diseases, influenza, hepatitis, tetanus, heart disease... that kill many more people a year that simply don't get the press requisite of their "pathology fraction", to coin a term. On the other hand, is it really bad to get the beef out of beef feed? These critters have been evolving for millions of years into ruminants, and in the course of 30 or 40 beef generations, we're trying to work against that. Aesthetically, it goes against the grain of my animal husbandry background. Scientists certainly have their cross to bear in this, but don't forget the journalists who sensationalized it, and the politicians to capitalized on it. Given current molecular biologists' understand of enzymes catalytic properties, cellular signal cascades, and protein folding, it doesn't seem all that farfetched to me. Many proteins fold on their own. Many do not. The ones that don't, have other proteins to help them. So, the stage has already been set for protein-protein folding interactions. The stage has been set with enzyme catalysis for decades. Signal cascade studies are relatively new, also, but becoming well understood. On the other hand, I can't point to a reaction pathway that prions participate in. I also can't point to a signal that they induce. But, it was only within the past two years that we figured out how nitroglycerin helps to mediate muscle tension in arteries. So, it may be science fiction-y, but it's "alternate universe" not "super science" science fiction. Furthermore, based on the understanding it is helping to give us in protein structure and function, I think that prions should still be studied.

But, where is the bacterium when you look at a histological slice of the affected area? Do you posit that the bacterium crosses the blood-brain barrier, or does it make some chemical that does? I'm not saying that it isn't possible, but what you're saying is 3 steps from blaming "little people" of stealing infected folks' neurons. I think it is really, really unlikely that a bacterium can survive the whole transport chain from beef bone meal to infecting a cow or a human.

Over in Beer they have "Friday the Firkenteenth". I would suggest either have our own OTBN on Friday the Firkenteenth, or put up a Blue Moon calendar, and have OTBN once in a blue moon. (About every 20 months)

The low-fat study was a great example of a well-designed study, and the researchers who performed it deserve a lot of praise for being real scientists and just coming out with the results despite their probable disappointment. ← Not to be a killjoy, but a fat study applies to prions how? The long and the short of it is that there is a lot of study going on in the realm of protein folding. There are several leading hypotheses that explain some interesting parts of protein folding. But these also leave a lot to be desired. So, specifically how PrP or others fold into the pathological form, is unsure. Even beyond that,it took a lot of work to get enough pathological PrP to get to the stage where its structure could be studied either via NMR or X-Ray crystallography (both of which have their individual problems with structure determination). We've looked at prions from the Koch's postulates side, but what about turning the inspection around and looking at it from the side of what can you find (or not find) to lead you to a pathogen from the standpoint of the sufferer of CWD, BSE, CJD, scrapie, kuru, etc?

Don't forget, these young corporate Turks also consume the vast majority of the nation's boneless, skinless, flavorless chicken breasts. Money and addiction do not foster a proper appreciation for an art form.

From my tip-of-the-iceberg understanding of ontogeny, philogeny, genomics, and proteomics, I think it would be equally instructive to re-conduct this study using 15-25 year-olds as the test subjects. Possibly, even younger people. Cellular, organ-level, and systemic feedback mechanisms evolve and respond more in younger humans, and can get "stuck" in certain states depending on many factors. I think it would be quite instructive to study them before they're "stuck". Of course, I also am a large supporter of eating what you would like and exercising the calories off (and there are lots of fun types of exercise--the less socially acceptable the better).

I'd try puncturing the potato with toothpicks numerous times, instead.

I had the wine with some pizza last night while I was watching the dogs who were watching the nephew who was watching the Super Bowl (no, I'm not a huge football fan). Remember that this particular try was a Pinot grigio. Straight from the fridge it was way too cold to get a good handle on its flavor which is something that some pinot grigio's in my price point have industrialized out of them. Upon warming slightly, there was a hint of mineral on the tongue, but it was much more subdued than many whites that I enjoy. It was dry, but not horribly so. There was almost no acid or hotness with the flavor. This wine, I think, is much more suited to having food with it than most whites that I drink. It doesn't seem to stand on its own, but instead asks for a dance partner. Final evaluation: I will purchase and make this again. Suggested due to ease and flavor.

Don't forget the occurence of the verb "liaise" from liaison. It makes me shudder to think about it.

Eau contraire. It is certainly a battle most worthy of being picked. I may be of the older school when it comes to linguistics, but if the language is simply allowed to evolve without regard to origins, New York won't speak Nebraska English. Come to think of it, you guys don't already. For shame! That statement I can agree with. Grow is likely the most egregiously misused that I come across.

I would not expect this kind of precision with a $100 gas unit. Of course, I wouldn't make hollandaise on said unit, either. So, I guess that's fair. As for the question upthread on the unit degaussing other magnets in the area, I really would tend to doubt it since you've got not enough of a magnetic field to make the pan (or presumably a paperclip) stick to the unit. Also, I'm assuming that the unit has an appropriately shaped field made by clever construction of the transmitter. There are reasonable equations for engineering radio transmitters based on how you want your field to actually look. Personally, I would like to have one just for "transportable" cooking necessities, as I seem to do a fair amount of cooking at other friends' abodes--who have just as horrible of stoves as I do. Mine's a Caloric.

Hehehe, the wine that was spilled got "sampled" by the quality assurance department. The next morning, the dachshund and the terrier were not very pleased. I'm sampling it tonight as soon as I get back into town.

The radiation they emit is well in the radio frequency range. There is painfully little chance that it would do any damage to a person using them under reasonable conditions. Honestly, you get more rf damage from your cell phone (which does zero damage). If you want to know how I came to that, Energy = Planck's Constant * frequency Do the math yourself. Then, if you're really sick, take the energy difference of that number and the energy of water's rotation (it's quantized). Find their difference, plug it into the Heisenberg uncertainty equation, and get yourself a probability of one photon from the emitter (cell phone or induction range) being absorbed by a water molecule. It will be a shockingly low number.

Malawry, my suggestion would be more toward the casserole side of things. Eggs are spectacular binders, and you'll have less time than you would like to cook. If you gauge how long your tolerance is of leftovers, and create frozen dishes that you can oven-reheat to fit within those tolerances using the eggs, you'll have a better post-partum period. All the best! -j P.S. Don't forget your RDA of bread pudding!

I put 2 5 liter bags away and 1 3 liter bag. I don't know where the wine all went. I swear I started off with more than 13 L. It's not a huge problem, though. I think we would have got more if 1: I had more hose to siphon with. 2: I wouldn't have knocked the bucket onto the kitchen floor when getting ready to siphon into the second 3 L bag. On the other side of things, the shook up wine in the bottom of the fermentor that we didn't do anything with tasted really nice. It was nice and dry like I was hoping. It wasn't anything spectacular, but it wasn't anything disappointing. I'm thinking it'll be great with some fried chicken and friends.

Just serve me some Ortelin like Miterand and sing to me like Painless in M*A*S*H. Oh, and while you're at it, pass the venison.

After screaming "Khaaann!" It is apropos to follow it up with, "you bastard!!!!!" Also, the Japanese had it right. There is no dishonor in death. That is a western construct.

I'm not sure of the total fact of that statement, but there is a relation between prions and an open reading frame on Chromosome 20 in humans. Your last clause I can't vouch for. My understanding of how at least one of the pathologies is supposed to work is that somewhere between translation and post-translational modification of the protein in this open reading frame, the pathogenic prion interacts with the incompletely folded/modified protein and causes it to fold into the pathogenic form. But, I don't support genetic tests before being allowed to purchase beef. The simple fact is, we all got a life sentence when we were conceived. Whenever I see a patient now as a medic in the Army, or later as a medical student, or even later as a physician, I am always going to remind them to make the most of it, because the last laugh will always be on them. And my last laugh will be on me. It's a simple fact. Why can't we deal with it? Repeat after me: eat, drink, and be merry, dammit! Reason for above statement: statistically, less than one member of eG will die of a prion disease.