Posts by gam

here in the holy country everything is so intense. If you don't yell then you don't demand respect i.e. yelling = respect. that's the situation in most work places...and kitchens being even more intense than you average work place means...

Thank you Athenaeus for your kind words. lets hope that the Euro succeeds and that this coming year is a more successful one for us all!!! If you ever wish to visit your second country you have a place to rest your head, even though I...

My angle is a simpler one, though in agreement with the commomnly held opinion that cooking is essentialy soul...When I cook I have the taste in my mouth that I want to arrive at. If my finished product matches the taste that is on my...

Athenaeus, was the coin a newly minted Euro? I hope the Euro brings luck to all Europe this year (or at least the participating countries):

With all due respect to Greek winemaking, I think that retsina tastes more like turpintine except for monkey (it wasn't the brain they gave me...some unidentified part {sorry Isa}) the only food that I've never understood what the big...

this is a true story I was fed monkey in the jungles of Borneo by native Dayaks who still occassionaly practice cannibalism, hence I couldn't refuse. It was as disgusting as you might imagine it to be, even if it was dead and...

Thanks for the advice. I have access here in israel primarily to vipers, like rattlesnakes are highly poisonous. How do you get rid of the poison?

Thanks for the advice. I have access here in israel primarily to vipers, like rattlesnakes are highly poisonous. How do you get rid of the poison?

I use both. If I know that I'm going to be doing a lot of chopping and cutting then I take out my large heavy(5 lbs) wooden board. If I just want to slice a tomato to put into my sandwich, then I grab my plastic board. By the way, I...

I would like to find some recipes for snake or alternately could someone tell me how to cook snake properly.