--- 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!
Yow! I have to admit I am pretty dull and squeamish about my Asian meat dishes- pretty much beef satay or shrimp anything-- though I've eaten *lots* of water buffalo as a kid there, and jelly fish when I was there last (1997 I think)- tastes like chicken!?. > 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 didn't even know there was any difference between the yuppie salt and Morton's iodized until I tried it-- 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. Ha-Ha! Exactly! I bought some Alaea "Da Salty Lady's" Hawaiian salt the last time I was there, and yes it has dirt in it- clay actually, which makes it pink. It is very, very mild. Then there is 'hand crafted balinese sea salt- coarse grain', which sounds oh so precious, but its pretty good too. Weird black salt sounds like a good way to celebrate > Halloween! Its actually a finishing salt, so if you try to cook with it, it'll turn your food green! 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 ...or try 'Simple Pleasures of Salt & Pepper' by Sandra Cook & Sara Slavin'. Its mostly pictures and large print, which works for me! 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/
