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Archive for Archive for June, 2008
Hot Bytes for 2008-06-30
From Bad Egg to Good Egg! Hen-Fruit Now Makes You Smart and Sexy: http://tinyurl.com/52dfk5 #
Dateline, Mumbai: Chilli Futures Up - http://tinyurl.com/5ykv3x #
LA Times Reports Balinese Long Peppers Making Comeback: http://tinyurl.com/49syc6 #
Surviving Half of “Two Fat Ladies” Rips Brit Govt. for Banning Martha Stewart: http://tinyurl.com/49u8nz #
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“Bond. James Bond. Heated, not Scorched.”
Sean Sir Sean Connery has a dirty little secret. No, it’s not all those pictures in ladie’s clothing; those are called kilts. And no, he’s not ashamed of being placed on The List, even though everybody now has to call him “Sir” or risk the extreme displeasure of the Queen.
No, his secret isn’t anything quite [...] Read more »
Hot Bytes for 2008-06-29
Sky News Reports Brits in Danger from Sat Fat Binging on Weekends: http://tinyurl.com/495dja #
Midwest Flooding to Push Up Prices of Organic Foods (But Probably Not Chiles): http://tinyurl.com/4643ml #
Obama Needs Bake Sale After Giving Cash to Hillary: http://tinyurl.com/6fj9et #
Short Profile and Interview With the “Pope of Peppers:” http://tinyurl.com/3vmk6a #
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A Blast of Vindaloo
I love Indian food. India is the spice-patch of the world, producing 86% of the spices consumed globally! That’s over 1.6 million metric tons of tasty goodness.
Indian food has a reputation here for heat. Hot curries, dishes containing dried and fresh chiles, and other zesty tongue-tinglers. It doesn’t have to be that way, of course, [...] Read more »
Malaysian Cuisine I: Two Interesting Sauces
Modern Malaysia is a land of many contrasts. There are places of crushing poverty, and areas of rampant wealth and excess. Often these are separated by as little as a street or a fence. There are signs of the British occupation and rule, and many places where it appears the British never showed up. Christan [...] Read more »
Hot Bytes for 2008-06-27
Even Russia Has News on McDonald’s Latest PR Boon / Boondoggle: http://tinyurl.com/3f83n8 #
Hot Food Blog Reports About Spicy Wings That are So Hot You Must Sign a Waiver to Eat Them: http://tinyurl.com/52g63s #
The Onion Measures the Spicy Food Interests of Older Americans: http://tinyurl.com/657t5x #
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More Friday Follies III: Snake-Man Eats Whopper, and More…
I didn’t find any items that are blow-hot-coffee-out-your-nose funny this week, but there’s the usual harvest of food-related whimsy, drollery and eccentricity. Start with luke-warm coffee, just in case…
The Fast Food News reports on a hilarious advert shown in Japan for Burger King’s Triple Whopper. I don’t think it will start any trends, such as [...] Read more »
The Pleasures of Mild Curry
Okay, this is a blog that celebrates chiles. However not everything has to be blazing hot! I’ve loaded four new curry recipes on the Recipes du Jour page:
Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)
Quick Lemon Curry Chicken
Thai Mussamun Curry
Burmese Ginger Curry Pork
Butter Chicken is not for those on low-fat diets. But since that only covers about two readers [...] Read more »
