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Giving Thanks
. Zacatecas is according to him just about the southern limit of the “burrita”, which he classifies as a form of taco but with the distinction that it is made with tortilla de harina de trigo. He says that the most...
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Las Vegas Trip Report with tons of food...
special at the Orleans coffee shop. Good hash browns, toast, eggs and sausage is just about all you might want for the price. I then had a Southern Comfort and Ginger Ale (told the Barkeeper to surprise me) for another coupon....
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Your most amazing cheese moment (that was all about the cheese)
and handed us some straight away. Heaven. If you’re paying lots of money to buy mozzarella di bufala in little baggies that are a week old, all I can say is I’m glad you’re helping the southern Italian economy....
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Choosing Cookbook of Month
with Vegetable Harvest. I find that if the people who vote aren’t even interested in contributing to the COM, it’s disappointing, especially so when books I would have loved to delve into were outvoted (for example,...
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Local Palate finally features chowhounds
's hooves, tomato, peppers, etc. The hooves made the broth almost gelatinous, gluey to be less kind. This was said to be a general tonic, good for all that ails you. It was delicious. She claimed it is Spanish, from Spain, and...
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Why is Authenticity So Important. and What is it, Anyway?
—admittedly blurry along the edges—and that range is real, and people intimately acquainted with a culture can more or less come together on it. Most people who’ve spent a lot of time in Spain will tell you that...
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Your moment of discover/ I knew I was a Chowhound when...
I was working in an excellent restaurant on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It was between my junior and senior years of college and I was basically working my way around Spain while having a blast doing it. Anyway, the...
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Pro food critics who know nothing about a cuisine - helpful or harmful?
a lot of technique (is something properly executed?), a fair amount of food history (to which I’ve added to greatly) and a good base knowledge of the regional cuisines and history of Italy, Spain, France, China, and the US,...
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Understanding Americans: Food Terminologies
Here in Southern California, we get both generic green onions and what are called Mexican green onions, the latter of which have the larger, well-developed bulb you describe on the Spanish ones...which I guess makes sense!...
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Do you ever like the crappy better than the excellent?
Awesome. More power to you. I agree w/ Pumpkinseed on the separate but equal pleasure in many cases. I love both white anchovies imported from Spain for $30/lb. and salty tinned ones for a buck. Ditto oil-packed Italian tuna and...
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Constantly altering menu items:a diner's right or peeve?
, Spain, from a patron having his morning brandy. [We were in search of real coffee after the pension’s continental breakfast watered-down version of java.] My bad if I forget to mention my preference against the norm...
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Need Cookie Recipe
. In fact, it often is not for me as many of the recipes are long, long steps, longs ingredients, etc. and I am into baking! I would like to recommend a book called The Treasury of Southern Baking published in 1993 by...
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why cant americans make cheese ?
. Budweiser is also locally brewed in eight countries outside the Unites States. They are: Argentina, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea and Spain. Anheuser-Busch strategic equity investments include: * 50% of Grupo...
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FDA approves cloned beef...
and research institutes, from governments like Spain, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, and many others (all of whom are concerned about the poor, about global warming, about biodiversity, about bio- and food safety), and from such...
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An unscientific look at local by-the-glass wine pricing [moved from Boston board]
at more under-$20/entree places: shun familiar low-end Cali wines (junk like that K-J) in favor of lesser-known, better-value wines from Spain, Austria, South America, etc. I’m sure many folks get upset that they...
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