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In Topic: You Learn Something New Every Day

20 August 2012 - 05:17 PM

I was reading from McGee's On Food and Cooking and learned that cane sugar comes from Asia.  By the Middle Ages they were using it in the Arab world and it didn't get to Europe until the 13th c.

And it didn't get to the so-called New World until the Spanish brought it, on the cusp of the 16th century.  We had bee honey, but no cane sugar.

In Topic: So, where are *you* going next?

10 February 2012 - 12:32 AM

There has been talk that my chorus may be invited to perform the Bach Mass in B Minor in Mexico City in June with the National Symphony Orchestra. There's also a chance that it will be all (or most) expenses paid.

OMG--you here in June?

...and us in France, Italy, and Greece for five weeks...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

On the other hand, if you will be performing at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, you will completely blown away by its beauty.

In Topic: Indoor plant identification

08 February 2012 - 07:21 PM

Update to this old thread: she did bring the cutting. I planted it immediately. This plant is very, very slow to take off.

Just a week before tsquare passed away, 14 months after she brought the cutting to Mexico, the little plant put out its first tiny shoot, no bigger than the head of a pin. But it's growing at last, and I told her first.

In Topic: tsquare

08 February 2012 - 07:16 PM

We were friends--here on Mouthfuls, via email, and in person. She wrote to me about a week ago to say that her cancer had worsened and that she had enrolled in hospice. She talked about her last trip to Italy--just a few months ago--and about her trip to visit me in Morelia, and how happy she was to have done those things. She talked a bit about what she was going through, but as always with a truly indomitable and upbeat spirit.

This is how we started: http://mouthfulsfood...identification/

Very few people who have passed through my online life into my in-person life have impacted me the way she and Michael did. The world is a smaller place without her.

Godspeed, Stephanie. I'm glad I have the plant to keep you present.

In Topic: Mexican Cooking Project #8

24 January 2012 - 01:18 AM

Nice to know there are decent gringo-produced tortillas available. Maybe I'll try them sometime.

I use a round cast iron griddle as a comal, too. I can get three or four single tortillas on it at once (edges of each slopping over the side of the comal to facilitate turning), but if you stack another layer of tortillas on top of the layer already on the comal, you can do double the amount at once. When the first side of the layer on the comal is heated, I flip the stack of two so that the first side of the second tortilla is toasting. Then I pick up both tortillas, turn the stack inside out, and toast the backsides of both. Voilá, 8 tortillas at once in the napkin instead of 4. Works great.

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