Shrooooms!

Post #263,984 by Andrew Grygus 8/6/06 10:20:28 PM 8/6/06 10:30:05 PM Reply	Shrooooms! Today I put together my page on [link\|http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/fungus.html\|Fungus] (instead of doing things that desperately need to be done - 'cause I happened across a package of dried mushrooms that I needed to find a place for while cleaning up the kitchen). Of course it's not done yet, but it's a pretty decent outline missing only a few hundred common mushrooms. More cooking details to come. Sorry, not much on truffles yet - but do read the Warning! [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx] Edited by Andrew Grygus Aug. 6, 2006, 10:30:05 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #263,995 by broomberg 8/6/06 11:21:52 PM Reply	Can you explain this quote and give links? Warning! One mystery has recently been solved - why some people rave about truffles and others just don't see the point. If you have not been exposed to truffles over some period of time don't bother with the expense, you won't appreciate them. If you can afford the long term exposure you'll come to love them. It's a chemical thing.
Post #263,996 by Andrew Grygus 8/6/06 11:23:06 PM Reply	Was in the Los Angeles times - I probably have . . . . . the article so I'll try to find it. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #263,999 by Andrew Grygus 8/6/06 11:59:43 PM Reply	Nope, it was the Wall Street Journal. Saturday/Sunday 5-6 Nov 2005 P3 - Katy McLaughlin I was particularly aware of this article because "L" asked me some months ago why the rage about truffles. She'd tried truffle dishes and they left her cold. The article says 25% of the population can't smell or taste truffles at all and 40% very much can and hate them. That leaves 35% who can smell truffles and love them. Chefs, however, all love truffles. Tim Jacob and colleagues at Cadriff University in Cadriff Wales did a study and found that those who can't detect truffles, after a week of sniffing truffle-level doses of the compound andostenone (the dominant truffle aromatic) three times a day could thereafter smell truffles and liked them. The article's conclusion was that before laying down $110 for a plate of spaghetti with truffle shavings you stop by a gourmet emporium and ask for a sniff of a high quality truffle oil made with real truffles to see if it'll be worth your money. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #264,002 by broomberg 8/7/06 12:29:52 AM Reply	Here's a PDF of it. [link\|http://www.melissalibbypr.com/pdfs/tfs.wsj.11.05.pdf\|http://www.melissali...tfs.wsj.11.05.pdf]
Post #264,003 by broomberg 8/7/06 12:30:02 AM Reply	Here's a PDF of it. [link\|http://www.melissalibbypr.com/pdfs/tfs.wsj.11.05.pdf\|http://www.melissali...tfs.wsj.11.05.pdf]
Post #264,044 by bionerd 8/7/06 10:44:37 AM 8/7/06 10:45:00 AM Reply	Mushrooms are your new favorite food Arent they? Edited by bionerd Aug. 7, 2006, 10:45:00 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #264,043 by bionerd 8/7/06 10:43:03 AM Reply	Finally!! Something I can get behind! I'm pulling out my fork!
Post #264,064 by Andrew Grygus 8/7/06 12:02:48 PM 8/7/06 12:13:14 PM Reply	Clearly you have not received the word of our Lord . . . . . Krishna. Mushrooms, along with onions, garlic and others of the lilly family must be banished from your plate - it's not just cow. Krishna is, I think, not happy with me, but cow eating and magic mushrooms are definitely supported by the Sacred Vedas - so Krishna can go hug a heffer. Damn revisionists anyway . . . [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx] Edited by Andrew Grygus Aug. 7, 2006, 12:13:14 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #264,070 by bepatient 8/7/06 12:30:02 PM Reply	No worries the Krishna hair-do is not a good look for me. And I'd rather deal with eternity than to lose onion and garlic. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #264,080 by Andrew Grygus 8/7/06 1:05:27 PM 8/7/06 1:10:29 PM Reply	Ah, but Krishna recommends instead . . . . asafoetida, known in the West as the ever popular "Devil's dung". It was considered by the Romans a poor substitute for silphium, which rgrettably is now extinct. Actually I've used asafoetida (ayurvedic grade - otherwise you can't be sure just what you're getting). It does add a sophistication to vegetable dishes as onion and garlic would, but it's not the same sophistication. I consider it an even poorer substitute for the lilly family than it was for silphium. Warning: Many Indian recipes proportion asafoetida for a highly adulterated product. If you have the real thing - never more than 1/16th teaspoon to serve 4 people - and fry in oil first before adding other ingredients. If you have the adulterated product fry that too even though the literature says you don't have to - it's better that way. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx] Edited by Andrew Grygus Aug. 7, 2006, 01:10:29 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #264,086 by imqwerky 8/7/06 1:29:57 PM Reply	Omniscient LRPD " Quaint. But fetid in taste." Smile, Amy [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?Amy%20Rathman\|Pics of the Family]

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