I was going to do a couple of pieces tonight....
one of them being a breakdown of the "hipster family", the young and wealthy breeding dressing like hipsters and putting their children in ironic t-shirts, but I did'nt get a chance to work that one out verbally with my friend today, and voice mail isn't the place to work out the kinks on that kind of subject.
so.....
I figured I would offer an explanation to folks that don't know this about me, and a reminder to those that do know me that may have have let it slip from their memory.
I RUN RESTAURANTS.
I RUN MY SELF INTO THE GROUND.
I TEND TO FORGET ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD.
I WANTED TO CALL YOU BACK... I REALLY DID... BUT I GOT A CALL FROM THE RESTAURANT.
I WANT TO GO OUT WITH YOU TO TALK ABOUT YOUR BAD BREAKUP, BUT I CAN BARELY MOVE.
I CAN NOT STOP THINKING "DO WE HAVE ENOUGH SALMON?"
I RUSH HOME FOR A SHOWER... NOT TO GO OUT, BUT TO NOT SLEEP IN MY OWN FILTH.
I LOVE MY JOB.
I LOVE YOU TOO.
I HAVE LOST TEN POUNDS.
I THINK THAT THE PEOPLE IN MY 54 CHAIRS EATING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ME EATING.
I HAVE SEEN YOUR FACEBOOK COMMENTS, YOUR MYSPACE MESSAGES ETC... I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU I AM IN A UNIVERSE THAT OFFERS SO LITTLE SLEEP THAT I AM STARTING TO THINK ABOUT THREAD COUNT.
I MISS YOU.
I MISS ME.
I HAVE TO DO THIS.
I AM SORRY.
Well folks here is another dose of food information you didn't want or need, but you have to admit it is always interesting to find out how complex the simple things are.
Ketchup
The word “ketchup” comes from the Chinese “ke-tsiap,” and if you’re
wondering why ketchup isn’t used in Chinese food, well, there’s your
story. Ke-tsiap wasn’t at all like ketchup. It was a sauce made from
pickled fish that frankly wouldn’t taste so great on a burger
– or in our opinion on much else. Nonetheless, it was popular enough to
catch on in Malaysia, where it was called “kechap,” and Indonesia
(“ketjap”), and to be honest it probably wasn’t as bad as it sounds;
it’s been compared to soy sauce. When English and Dutch sailors made
their way to the Far East in the 17th century, they “discovered” the
sauce and brought some back with them. Homemade versions immediately
became popular; Elizabeth Smith’s The Compleat Housewife (copyright 1727) called for anchovies, shallots, vinegar, white wine, cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg, pepper, and lemon peel.
Note the lack of tomatoes in that recipe. In the grand East-meets-West tradition of fusion cuisine, someone thought to add tomatoes to ke-tsiap in the early 1700s. The British counterpart of that person, by the way, went another direction and added mushrooms instead; you can still find mushroom ketchup at a few specialty retailers, and The New Joy of Cooking contains a recipe for the homemade stuff. Anyway, in both nations, the spelling also mutated around the same time; the first reference to “ketchup” appeared in 1711. This, too, caught on, and within 100 years or so ke-tsiap had acquired yet another regional name: tomato soy. Teresa Heinz Kerry’s great-great-great in-laws started selling a thin, salty version of the stuff in as “tomato ketchup” in 1876, and it was such a hit that eventually they just dropped the “tomato.”
MustardMustard, in my opinion, has one of the best linguistic back stories in the English tongue: its name is a contraction of the Latin mustum ardens, meaning “burning wine” – presumably because the seeds are spicy and used to be as valuable as the vintage stuff. (The French used to mix mustard seeds with grape juice, which may also have something to do with the name.) Mustard’s tastier qualities, however, weren’t always appreciated the way they are today. It started out as the ancient equivalent of Neosporin: Pythagoras prescribed it for scorpion stings. His successor, Hippocrates, tried to cure toothaches with it (at least he didn’t use something sugary). Later, the stuff had fans among religious types, too: Pope John XXII was reportedly so enamored of mustard that he established a new Vatican position, grand moutardier du pape, which means “mustard-maker to the pope.” Conveniently, he happened to know the perfect candidate; his nephew was a moutardier.
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When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300° C.
The Russians used a pencil.
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and a friendly reminder...
