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Tell this to the cave person who would have perished were it not for the protein-rich food and warm clothing animals provided. The survival of the species probably depended on an adequate supply of meat and fur coats. If eating meat is a sin, then I guess most all of our primordial ancestors are in hell.

There is a Total Wine in Sterling that you could work into your trips to Wegmans. It's on Rt. 7 at Cascades.

Two observations: 1. The place is all broth and no beans. 2. Who in their right mind would go to a place with such a suggestive name.

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I disagree that using email is rarely an appropriate method for business transactions. In this day and age, email is just as appropriate as any other mode of communication for doing business, even reportiing food poisening to a restaurant.

Seasoning, I don't think so, LC are enameled and require no seasoning. And I generally use wood utensils and sometimes metal.

What is a Ventworm Nut?

Well, it does seem that there may be some science behind some folk wisdom. It seems that phenolics that are present in certain herbs and such may suppress some of the bacterial action in the lower gut. (The situation is that the oligosaccharides in beans are not digested in the upper GI tract and arrive in the lower as ample fodder for the bacteria there to do their thing.) So, addition of epizote by the Mexicans may have some merit if epizote has a lot of phenolics. I don't know. There is a gathering opinion that if you eat a lot of beans, your bacterial population will adjust and all will be well. What has me intensely curious is the test protocol and equipment used to test those astronauts. Enquiring minds want to know. Well, one more dream crushed. Thanks, fifi. I like baking beans. Start them on the stovetop with whatever tastes good in the ol' Le Creuset -- bacon, spices, aromatics. Cover with water and toss in the oven for a few hours. Salting is unimportant in my experiments except for flavor. Soaking is just a pain in the butt that adds nothing -- rather cook them a little longer in the same pot. So am I to take from this that Julia Child is, well, full of gas with regard to her "antiflatulence" method of cooking beans?

Put a roll of toilet paper in the freezer for later.

I like Shelley's Back Room.

What would happen if you used some of each type of bean?

You were thinking of Kudzu.

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Jenny: Enough of this, I have two Le Cruesets. I will put the smaller of the two in my truck and take it to work tomorrow. I'm at 17th and M. PM me and we can make arrangements for you to pick it up. Mark

You should try to borrow someone's Le Creuset "french" oven before you decide to make such an investment. Give it a try and see what you think. They have a lot to recommend. If you decide to go that route, you will acquire an asset that you will be able to pass down to your decendants.

I'm just a simple country tax lawyer.

This sounds like fodder for a Federal Trade Commission investigation. I think a strong case could be made that conditioning a supply of goods for resale on a promise to not sell for less than a certain price constitutes constructive retail price maintenance. If the FTC stung just one company on this theory those types of supply agreements would go away overnight. But rather than wait for the FTC to get around to an investigation, perhaps a class action suit against one of these companies would suffice. Is this legal mumbo jumbo legal on egullet?

Sorry for the repeated replies. The browers kept telling me that it could not find the server, so I kept going back a knotch and hitting "add reply" again. Perhaps the editors could clean this up for me.

No, we call it Ring of Fire. Where I come from, we call it "fire in the hole." Funny you should mention "Fire in the Hole" and "Ring of Fire"...I believe both are the names of hot sauces on the market! Both "preparations" likely well suited to produce the described effect.

No, we call it Ring of Fire. Where I come from, we call it "fire in the hole." Funny you should mention "Fire in the Hole" and "Ring of Fire"...I believe both are the names of hot sauces on the market! Both "preparations" likely well suited to produce the described effect.

No, we call it Ring of Fire. Where I come from, we call it "fire in the hole." Funny you should mention "Fire in the Hole" and "Ring of Fire"...I believe both are the names of hot sauces on the market! Both "preparations" likely well suited to produce the described effect.

No, we call it Ring of Fire. Where I come from, we call it "fire in the hole." Funny you should mention "Fire in the Hole" and "Ring of Fire"...I believe both are the names of hot sauces on the market! Both "preparations" likely well suited to produce the described effect.

No, we call it Ring of Fire. Where I come from, we call it "fire in the hole."

Has there been a "what's the best bacon" discussion?

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