Its taste is entirely dependent upon the marinade."

-- Sigal Cossman-Lasher

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated
that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would
have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria found
in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop.

However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey, beer
or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process
of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

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You know you live in a culinary ghetto when:

You go to the closest liquor store for ice and Sierra Nevada and instead find Miller Genuine High Life, hunting knives, and confederate flags... In a predominantly black neighborhood.

Different trips to the local national chain supermarket for items such as a) mirin, b) arugula, c) sorrel, d) wine from a maker other than Sutter Home, e) the elusive red potato, and f) smoked salmon, end in nothing but frustration, tears, and scavenger-hunt mea... read more

Adam and I went to Kauai this weekend for a wedding. We arrived in Honolulu and decided to belly up to the bar while we waited for our connecting flight.
Thinking I'm suave (like we don't already share finances), I go to pull out my wallet and my money so I can buy our drinks... and I'm reaching in my back pocket, like waaaay back there, and I find.... nothing.

I try the front pockets. The other back pocket. Back again to the first pocket.

Nothing.

For the next ten minutes all ... read more