were the result of fat dripping into a fire and reacting with potassium hydroxide in wood ashes. My bigger concern is the sulphur and copper fungicides permitted under organic rules. Some synthetic fungicides such as Daconil break...

"Tuppers Hop Pocket Ale...Brewed in Ashton,VA." Not for very much longer... http://tuppersbeers.com/TuppersBeer/News/News.html Ashburn, VA., was the location of the contract brewery, Old Dominion, where THPA was brewed but they...

, in moderation it is not so intense and adds a further dimension to spicy sichuan dishes. This is not actually a peppercorn. It is a pod/seed from the prickly ash tree, otherwise known as Hua Jiao (Chuan Jiao), or Zanthoxyli...

to be a reason that it is consistantly winning world’s best cheddar. No, it’s not some fancy little cake covered with blue ash with thick veins of mold, or particularly stinky with unctuousness and flavour to send you...

Are there things that don’t necessarily agree with you (gastronomically speaking, of course), but that you eat anyway simply because you like the way they taste? Sort of like, "I’ll put up with the flatulence, the...

Ditto. Hate the stuff. Wouldn’t drink it as a child, even though Coke is my Mother’s sole vice. Atlanta would never have risen out of the ashes on the wings of Coca Cola if everyone was like me.

When you blowtorch cane sugar, it turns to yummy caramel, but when you blowtorch chopped hazelnuts, they turn to nasty ash. If I remember that scene right, she didn’t realize the problem until she’d torched them all....

not quite put my finger on. I looked in Thompson’s book yesterday. He has a recipe for this dish. He notes that Northern Thai cooking uses a spice from the Ash shrub that gives a numbing flavor like Szechuan peppercorns,...

Sorry to be so tardy. Just returned from a weekend backpack where the culinary highlight was freeze-dried apple cobbler enhanced with ashes and some wild apples and cranberries, all washed down with (filtered) water from Seneca...

WOW. I don’t know why, I had not been previously excited about this restuarant, despite some good reviews. But thanks to you I just looked at the menu. I’m going to have to plan a full weekend in Ashe soon. I swore...

". Cattle was fairly tough by comparison. We do know the Greeks ate “barbecued” beef from early times. It was always a part of funeral games and other ceremonial sacrifices, when the bones and skin were burned to ash...

Mexican cuisine to claim dishes as general as: “[m]ashed, fried, frites, baked, roasted [potatoes]”. And again cornmeal is a foodstuff and not a resultant dish. And of course any dish referred to as “polenta” would be understood...

with something more potent like Humbolt Fog. Just be sure to remove any bloom, rind, or ash. At the picnic, I actually used 100% Bucheron, but added a small bit of grated pecorino. Tart Pastry Inspired by Alton Brown 1 1/3 cup all...

because the LA visitor season is just starting and because everyone i meet always asks me, i made list of good joints to chow at. i obviously have way too much time on my hands. i thought i’d put my phd in applied culinary...

. It was restaurant hell and the food tasted like ashes in the mouth. However, it was a few years ago so they could have improved, but , it was so bad for us I couldn’t return, too much bad karma. There have been positive...