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Friday, December 27, 2002

BREAKING NEWS Jung Turks Clone Larry! BABYLON, Florida (CNN) -- A company, founded by a tax-exempt religious group that believes the first mushrooms were created by Phil Spector, said Friday that it has created the first living mushroom clone -- a fresh shoot it calls "Larry II." 6:00:06 PM    comment []

Back to work day and no complaints. Nope, nothing wrong with that. Reading Krugman this morning made me quite concerned. Going to work is good. The food today is simple, cannellini beans. We're gonna find out if the technique for lentils, which I emailed to Leah last week, also works for dried beans. Cooks' Illustrated tested several methods of cooking and found that lentils cooked in acidic liquid stay chewy. I've always blamed salt for that, reserving it until the last few minutes. I put some baking soda in for the first soak (bring to boil, let them sit an hour, drain; maybe repeating that before cooking with any flavor enhancers) to reduce the acidity. One "flavor enhancer" will be ham stock, made from the bones and trimmings of the born-again ham. Others might include pepper, paprika, and cumin. A friend at work told me today that he had cooked up the bone from his Christmas ham with beans and ate a whole bunch. He said he was farting the whole next day. A discussion ensued regarding the merits and drawbacks of the farts created by various foods. We agreed that sulphurous hard-boiled egg farts could make you hate yourself, and that anyone who ate canned sardines with hard-boiled eggs should be banished. The worst offenders are pickled eggs sold in bars, sometimes washed down with PBRs. 4:16:26 PM    comment []