Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

... Whenever I write about food, I get mail from the Serious Chefs.

Okay, that one wasn't a Wellerism. Where'd it come from,

"Whenever I write about art, I get mail from the Serious Art
Community informing me that I am a clueless idiot." - Dave Barry

Recent tastes ...

Knorr Select Bouillon powder: unlike regular Knorr products the
Select line contains no MSG. We bought one each of beef and chicken
and tried the beef version last night to improve some soup where the
steak bone broth was a bit week. It contains dried beef stock (and
toasted yeast as well) and has no preservatives or artificial
colours or flavours either. It has a nice natural beefy taste and is
not overly salty. It is also much less expensive than "Better Than
Bouillon" or Minors soup base pastes. Will buy again.

Sorbet grapes: a relatively new variety of seedless green grape,
finally available in Yellowknife. Unlike other green grapes they
have a crisp texture which I found intriguing and quite a sweet
taste but they are not very "grapey". I liked; Roslind didn't. They
are very seasonal but I'd buy them again next year.

A twist on the Algonquin cocktail using red rather than white
vermouth: 1 1/2 oz rye whisky, 3/4 oz each Italian vermouth and
pineapple juice, with a generous squeeze of lemon juice to counter
the vermouth's sweetness, shaken with ice and strained into a
chilled coupe. This is a winner, for my tastes.

Not tried: While looking for good, cheap, old fashioned buckwheat
groats I came across the following organic, fair trade, gluten free,
hipster porridges and baking mixes which amused me with their
pretentiousness but had price tags that made me wince in pain: a
porridge mix of quinoa, teff, and hemp hearts for $40/kg and since
it's pumpkin spice everything season for a limited time only
Nature's Way organic gluten free pumpkin spice waffle mix on
offer for $24/kg! They make the New World Foods Organic Pumpkin Flax
Granola look like a bargain at a mere $8.00. This sounds insane but
enough people are buying it that they took the $3 buckwheat off the
shelf to make room for more!

If you use enough pumpkin pie spice a six year old who thinks he
hates squash can't tell the difference between an acorn squash pie
and a pumpkin pie. I know this to be true.

Cheers

Jim

... Escoffier had little to say about pumpkin pie spice.

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