When used properly, and with control, fire can be a good thing. For example, December 30th is National Bacon Day. Using “Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis’s Cook Book”, by Sidney Morse, published in 1914, one uses smoke to prepare bacon. This is a big book of cooking and other advice-1300 pages! I found the instructionsContinue reading “December 30 “”Fire is a good servant but a bad master””
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October 20 “If memory serves me right…”
October 20th is International Chef Day. I have two international books on chefs-Iron Chefs. I loved watching the old Japanese TV show that was dubbed into English. The first book was from a friend who lives in Japan. The only English in the whole book is in the title “The Battle of Iron Chef”. IContinue reading “October 20 “If memory serves me right…””
March 15 “Friends, Romans, countrymen…”
Soothsayer: “Beware the Ides of March.” Caesar: “The Ides of March are come.” Soothsayer: “ay, Caesar; but not gone.” The above is a passage from Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Caesar is bantering with a soothsayer, saying that the Ides of March have come, but nothing has happened. The soothsayer reminds Caesar that the dayContinue reading “March 15 “Friends, Romans, countrymen…””
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