--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jim, > > Running the kitchen at Sidhaland started my cooking/food obsession. > I've been running it hard ever since. Since I cook for Thai and > Vietnamese friends, my table often resembles a scene from Fear Factor! > Asians eat EVERYTHING. Thanks for the salt tip, I'll swing by > Williams Sonoma and try it. I go in and out of interest in fancy > salt. I enjoy the crunch factor and have some Ile de Re French grey > salt. My fingers are calibrated for plain old kosher salt, so I can > feel how much I need for a dish more reliably when I pick it up. But I > am a sucker for new, odd foods so I'll check it out. I think Trader > Joe's just stocked a red and a black salt from Hawaii. Sometimes I > think it is just salt with dirt on it, and sometimes I think I can > taste something. Weird black salt sounds like a good way to celebrate > Halloween! There is a great book on the history of salt from one of > my favorite food writers, Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History. > http://www.amazon.com/Salt-World-History-Mark- Kurlansky/dp/0142001619
Be careful with sea salt; it can tend to be in very large chunks...so if you're used to a certain amount of kosher salt in your fingers, the feel of the same amount of sea salt can be about twice as much once it's on your food. > > > > > > > -- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > Ever put mango pickle on Pizza? It rocks. > > > > > <snip> > > Hey Curtis, its almost a surprise that you like mango pickle- that > > stuff rocks! Another condiment I just can't put down is Kilauea black > > sea salt (available at William-Sonoma). Its salt with pumice in it I > > guess- good on everything- black and chunky! > > > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
