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How to Cook Carp
Carp has a reputation for having an unpleasant, muddy taste. This selection from Andy Clark and His Neighbourly News (circa 1940) explains how to prepare it correctly:The editor of the Paisley Advocate doesn't go for carp. He counted seventeen of them, ranging from ten to twenty pounds lying sluggishly like a bunch of pigs in the Saugeen River. Somebody had told him that they weren't very good to eat, so he didn't bother getting a gun to shoot them. He is rather sorry now, for Ross Laidlaw claims that he has a recipe for the proper preparation of carp for the table. He advises: "Clean the fish carefully, soaking it in salt overnight. Then secure a clean pine plank, and place the cleaned carp on it with the skin side down. Sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper, butter it and bake it in a hot oven forty-five minutes. Remove from the oven, throw away the carp and eat the plank."
In the video below, Keith Bell of K&C Fisheries shows a more conventional method of carp preparation. Bonus: at around 3:40 he reveals that Carp Gonad Soup is considered a Christmas Day treat in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 18, 2013 -
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Category: Food
How to make akutaq
To make akutaq, also known as "eskimo ice cream," you mix together berries (blackberries, salmonberries, etc.) with fat. Nowadays it's common for people to use crisco as the fat, but traditionally people used reindeer or moose fat. If you happen to have either of those on hand, they're preferred. To finish off the recipe, you can also mix in some fish and sugar. Yum!
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 17, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Delicious London
A reproduction of London landmarks done in bread.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 15, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Strawberry-Flavored Salted Plums, with Honey and Chiles
Who wants to try these Mexican goodies and tell me how they taste?
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 08, 2013 -
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Category: Ethnic Groupings, Food, North America
Wonder Bread
So far as I know, Wonder Bread has not yet returned to the shelves, although the rights to make it have been purchased. One can only hope that the new company revives this old ad campaign.
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Ad source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 01, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Sex Symbols, 1940s
The effect of diet on the face
"The action of certain foods in influencing the formation of the features has been watched, with highly interesting results. The growth of the chin has been discovered to bear a very striking relation to the amount of starch consumed, and particularly when the starch takes certain forms or is combined with other properties....
It has been shown, and seemingly conclusively, that a flesh or greatly mixed diet promotes angularity in the face generally, while the nourishment obtained from a single article, commonly of a starchy nature, coarsens the features. Thus we have the potato lip, the oatmeal lip, the maize lip."
It has been shown, and seemingly conclusively, that a flesh or greatly mixed diet promotes angularity in the face generally, while the nourishment obtained from a single article, commonly of a starchy nature, coarsens the features. Thus we have the potato lip, the oatmeal lip, the maize lip."
From Fauconberg, W. (1905). "The effect of diet and climate on the face." The Strand Magazine: 418-423.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 29, 2013 -
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Category: Body, Food, Science, 1900s
Dieting advice from 1945
I wonder how the phrase 'fatty foolish' would go over in a weight watchers meeting nowadays.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 26, 2013 -
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Category: Food, 1940s
Immortal Potato
Food preservation news from 1954. I wonder if Dr. Butts' potato is still sitting unchanged on a shelf in some government warehouse. Spokane Daily Chronicle - Apr 2, 1954]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 02, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Vegetables, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
Pizza Button Solves Hunger
Using Bluetooth technology and past ordering history, The Red Tomato Pizzeria in Dubai gives customers the opportunity to order pizza by pushing the emergency pizza button.
Here's a film preview-type commercial for the service.
I'm ready for this to roll-out worldwide.
What push-button technology do you predict will be available next?
Posted By: gdanea - Mon Jul 01, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Mayonnaise Flow Rate
As you eat your sandwich, you probably never realized all the science that went into it. Because, of course, some researcher had to study exactly how the mayonnaise flows off your knife onto the bread. [wiley.com]
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 30, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Mayonnaise, Science
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