I always get confused about which vegetables were native to the Americas and which were brought over by Europeans. Corn is definitely Western Hemisphere, right? In which case, high fructose corn syrup may be slow-acting revenge for firewater and smallpox-y blankets...
You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 02, 2008 11:34:30 am PDT #8960 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hil R. - Apr 02, 2008 11:37:44 am PDT #8961 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Veganomicon has a who bunch of gluten-free recipes, including chocolate chip cookies made with oat flour. I've never tried them, though pretty much every else I've tried from this cookbook has been good. (Well, except the tofu dill salad, but I don't really like dill, so I'm not sure why I made that one to begin with.)
Steph L. - Apr 02, 2008 11:39:35 am PDT #8962 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Veganomicon
Damn, I want that just for the name. And I'm not even a vegetarian!
msbelle - Apr 02, 2008 11:41:26 am PDT #8963 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
things I need to cook tonight:
asian noodle salad
shrimp/dill/quiona salad
Miracleman - Apr 02, 2008 11:42:23 am PDT #8964 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Veganomicon
"This is the book of the names of the vegetables.
Tomato. Goddamn fruit.
Radish.
Lettuce.
George W. Bush.
Cauliflower..."
Hil R. - Apr 02, 2008 11:44:08 am PDT #8965 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Damn, I want that just for the name. And I'm not even a vegetarian!
I love the name. And the cookbook. It is absolutely the best vegan cookbook I've seen -- it's got recipes for everything, with absolutely no store-bought fake meats or fake cheese (I'm still rolling my eyes at the "recipe" in the Skinny Bitch cookbook that's basically "heat up a frozen veggie burger, add a slice of fake cheese, put on a roll,") lots of really creative recipes, and everything I've tried has been delicious.
sumi - Apr 02, 2008 11:46:40 am PDT #8966 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Ooh, I could make up similar recipes. Perhaps I should "write" a cookbook.
§ ita § - Apr 02, 2008 11:50:23 am PDT #8967 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Corn is definitely Western Hemisphere, right?
In my head I have that being swapped for wheat, so yeah.
Hil R. - Apr 02, 2008 11:51:05 am PDT #8968 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I hate Skinny Bitch. The original book, the cookbook, the whole concept. Hate it all. Aside from the abusive language, which I don't really care about but other people have said it reads exactly like the internal monologue of an anorexic, it starts off with "Stop putting all those chemicals and crap into your body!" and then ends with lists of vegan junk food and fake meats and cheeses. Honestly, if you're going for fewer chemicals, cheese from a farmers market dairy farmer beats Tofutti "cheese" easily.
Ginger - Apr 02, 2008 11:56:11 am PDT #8969 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The best immediate revenge for the Europeans for a new and improved form of syphilis.
As I recall, the earliest known cultivated grains in Eurasia were barley and ancestors of modern wheat. We're still only talking about 10,000 or so years, though, which is not very long in evolutionary terms. After all, we still don't really have the hang of walking upright. We should page Jars for more details. The New World crops included corn, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, tobacco, squash and a number of beans.