mind at work. Are you a trout fisherman (I assume you are from your posts). I bought a whole trout yesterday from whole earth foods (head and all) and it was wonderful. I don’t know if that qualifies me as a fisherman, I...

A microplane is faster, more efficient, and easier to clean. Why on earth would you want any kind of press?

Sad. less bizarre than the cheap food ads on FN telling you how to cook recipes so awful that even Sandra Lee was put on this earth so we wouldn’t resort to anymore.

Um, I take it you mean a true chowhound will consume any item ever eaten by man on earth ? While traveling in the South Pacific, you would indulge in a little “long pig”?? I drawn the line at consuming my canine...

of these are earth shattering ideas, but he will usually eat them. I also have more success if I let him help me in the kitchen. I end up with a bigger mess, but it’s worth it. Also, I took him to the strawberry patch and...

to allow for a long rise. I’m not one to add improvers to dough, but ascorbic acid as an enzyme would have stepped up molecular bonding. I also recalled that Elizabeth David had some no knead recipes in her great bread...

2m8ohed = "Tomato Head." I earned this nickname back in college when it became obvious that I, like many other Asians, have an inactive aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 enzyme. In other words, my face turns bright red like a tomato after...

It was great to be back in your necks of the woods, maria. After being disappointed with the cold wet weather in SF, I was really tempted to rent a car and drive up to Freestone to get a piping hot cedar enzyme bath and have some...

As I understand it, the cilantro thing is caused by an enzyme that changes the way they taste coriander leaves, a genetic trait, but has yet to be fully researched. Those of us who have it find that cilantro tastes soapy; some...

? perhaps there is a chemical,enzyme or ? that not all people smell.My neighbor in Italy was devastated when I had the English Boxwoods removed.I could not stand the odor healthy box has.She could not smell them at all.I am not...

their way with it. California strawberrys are another blot on the face of the earth. I thought at one time that they were that bad because of the shipping problems – then I lived in S.Cal for 12 years and found out that...

owner. Most of the tiny staff is family and they’re "real good, salt of the earth folks." They open at 6 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 8 a.m. on Sunday, and close at 2 p.m. each day (closed up tight on Monday). Hearty...