ChefTalk Cooking Forums » Food and Cooking Forums » CookBook Reviews » Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany

CookBook Reviews Discuss your latest culinary read here


Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 08-21-2004, 07:24 AM
KyleW's Avatar
KyleW Offline
ChefTalk Moderator
Culinary Experience: Home Chef
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: NYC, NY USA
Posts: 1,694
Default Schott's Food & Drink Miscellany

I may be late to the dance, but I just read about this book. It is everything you always, well okay never really, wanted to know about food and drink but were afraid to ask.

Did you know that the empty space in a bottle of wine, between the to of the wine and the bottom of the cork, was called ullage?

When it comes to carving, according to The Booke of Kervinge (1508), did you know that you:

disfigure a peacock

splat a pike?

wing a quail?

tranch a sturgeon?

Trivial Pursuits for food freaks :-)
__________________
At weddings, my Aunts would poke me in the ribs and cackle "You're next!". They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.
www.kyleskitchen.net
Reply With Quote


  #2  
Old 08-21-2004, 02:34 PM
Jim's Avatar
Jim Offline
Cafe Administrator
Culinary Experience: Culinary Instructor
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: New Castle, De USA
Posts: 2,397
Blog Entries: 3
Sick

I found the classsification of Bowel Movements rather... um.... disturbing.
__________________
Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch ripple
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Is it common to drink the same if a food was cooked in that wine? abefroman Pairing Food and Wine 6 12-17-2007 03:47 PM
ALL IN energy drink ChefRAZ Beverage Reviews 1 08-07-2007 09:10 AM
A few peak food and drink pairings Andrew Dornenburg Open Forum With Andrew Dornenburg & Karen Page 1 01-19-2007 07:03 PM
Worst Drink Ever phoebe Pairing Food and Wine 16 09-13-2004 02:03 PM
Drink or Keep? Anneke Pairing Food and Wine 6 02-14-2001 12:43 PM