Basic Knife Skills - 09/03/08


Class:
Basic Knife Skills
When
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
6:30pm - 18+
Where
Chez Bates (map)
Westerville, OH 43081
Other Info
Learn how to have confidence with your most important kitchen tool. In this class you’ll practice all the basic cuts that will get you through any weekday recipe with efficiency and ease. Also learn how to choose and properly care for your greatest asset in the kitchen.
Cost: $40.00

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the megaphone

Being a blogger myself, I find I spend an ample amount of time reading other blogs as well. Amazingly, I’ve found that not all the other blogs I find interesting have something to do with food!

Poking around on Fair Review, I found The Megaphone. The Megaphone is all about being able to share one’s own opinion. After all that’s half the reason so many of us are out there reading. We’re reading so we can share. I have to say I agree with Ryan, the blogs author, that the comments of many blogs are what make the blogs most interesting.

To get comments going, Ryan poses a question sure to solicit an answer. Many of Ryan’s questions revolve around humorous or “light” topics, but of course the one that really got my attention was about free range vs. intensive chickens. If you’re unsure of the difference or why you should care, Ryan includes a link to a BBC broadcast that inspired him to post the question.

I think the blog has a great format for encouraging people to share their opinions on a wide range of subjects. Fun reading indeed.

omnivore’s 100

Here is a great bit of fun that piques my interest infinitely more than the many many chain questionnaires I’ve received via e-mail. What can I say? I’m obsessed with food!

How the Omnivore’s 100 Works:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.

2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.

3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

4) Optional: Post a comment at Very Good Taste, linking to your results.

Yuki’s Omnivore’s 100 - 67/100:

1. Venison

2. Nettle tea

3. Huevos rancheros

4. Steak tartare 

5. Crocodile

6. Black pudding

7. Cheese fondue

8. Carp

9. Borscht

10. Baba ghanoush

11. Calamari

12. Pho

13. PB&J sandwich

14. Aloo gobi

15. Hot dog from a street cart

16. Epoisses

17. Black truffle

18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes

19. Steamed pork buns

20. Pistachio ice cream

21. Heirloom tomatoes 

22. Fresh wild berries

23. Foie gras 

24. Rice and beans

25. Brawn or head cheese 

26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper

27. Dulce de leche 

28. Oysters

29. Baklava

30. Bagna cauda

31. Wasabi peas

32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl 

33. Salted lassi 

34. Sauerkraut 

35. Root beer float 

36. Cognac with a fat cigar

37. Clotted Cream Tea

38. Vodka Jelly/Jell-O

39. Gumbo

40. Oxtail

41. Curried goat

42. Whole insects 

43. Phaal

44. Goat’s milk

45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more

46. Fugu (not because I don’t think I’d like it, but because I’m scared!)

47. Chicken tikka masala

48. Eel

49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (Am I missing out? Maybe I should try one of these.)

50. Sea urchin

51. Prickly pear

52. Umeboshi

53. Abalone

54. Paneer

55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal

56. Spaetzle

57. Dirty gin martini

58. Beer above 8% ABV

59. Poutine

60. Carob chips

61. S’mores

62. Sweetbreads

63. Kaolin (why?)

64. Currywurst

65. Durian

66. Frogs’ legs

67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake

68. Haggis

69. Fried plantain

70. Chitterlings or andouillette

71. Gazpacho

72. Caviar and blini

73. Louche absinthe

74. Gjetost or brunost

75. Roadkill

76. Baijiu

77. Hostess fruit pie

78. Snail

79. Lapsang Souchong

80. Bellini

81. Tom Yum

82.Eggs Benedict 

83. Pocky

84. 3 Michelin Star Tasting Menu

85. Kobe beef

86. Hare

87. Goulash 

88.  Flowers

89. Horse

90. Criollo chocolate

91. Spam

92. Soft shell crab

93. Rose harissa

94. Catfish

95. Mole poblano

96. Bagel and lox

97. Lobster Thermidor

98. Polenta

99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee

100. Snake