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Elements Of Americanization?
Ahem, Dr Fujisaka, then I shall tell my Bolivian student almost Dr Hsiao, that his mother's restaurant in Bolivia has the wrong product for lomo saltado.
Seriously, our local Mexican Restaurant, run by Guatamalans, has lomo montado, with a fried egg and a mess of sides, including tripas.
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Chinese College Students
I was joking. How did pasta originate in Italy? Maybe Marco Polo took it to China? I've read once that the Phoenicians brought the idea of pizza to the Ionian peninsula before the Romans were there.
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Elements Of Americanization?
I have an old Bolivian student sitting next to me. His mother has a restaurant in Santa Cruz and she regularly made for me lomo saltado (steak w/ fried egg on top) w/ great French fries and rice. My student says it is normal to serve lomo slatado w/ French fries, rice or both. I don't understand either.
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Chinese College Students
Early Chinese explorers founded Pompeii. Next you'll claim the Scicilians invented the tomato. :0}
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What's the #1 Thing That You Eat and Say, "Wow That REALLY Hit The Spot"?
Is that because NJ has no microbrewery culture?
But Hey, Gimme a slice.......of pie............tomato pie! My favorite NJ phrase and maybe something that really hits the spot, as an appetizer for a nice cold brewsky.
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What's the #1 Thing That You Eat and Say, "Wow That REALLY Hit The Spot"?
Fourunder, many may differ w/ you about beer being a food.
You mean Kaiser roll? Yes. Tomatoes from my cousin's farm in E. Brunswick? Yes. Instead of the burgers gimme a hot Italian sausage sandwich w/ peppers and onions or Kobasi and kapusta (with a cold beer)!!!!
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Inexpensive and fantastic seafood along the New England coast?
The original owner of Tall Barney's is from NJ, the new owners are from out of state as well,and they hire no or one local(s) (washing dishes?). $72 for 4 lobster rolls? Once burned, twice shy. Go if you wish, but no more for moi.
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Chinese College Students
Try something Italian w/ pasta (which came from China); stay from a lot of potatoes, dried beans and heavy fried foods. I have an old student staying w/ us for Thanksgiving. His girlfriend is from Bejing. She is slow to warm up to heavy American food, but enjoys Italian pasta dishes. Stay away from Mexican food.
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Elements Of Americanization?
If you like the seeds, leave 'em. More power to the movement!
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What's the #1 Thing That You Eat and Say, "Wow That REALLY Hit The Spot"?
An ice cold lager beer, never a lite beer, after hard physical labor on a hot summer's day. Man, that really hits the spot. A nice cold T'NT too.
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Elements Of Americanization?
I depends what I have in the freezer or what I grab. A pound is good for gravy, 2 lbs for enchiladas or over pinto beans.
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Elements Of Americanization?
I use dried New Mexico red chile pods (Hatch? Anaheims?), take off stem, and shake out seeds, stuff in blender, cover w/ boiling water, weight and let sit for 1 hour. Fry up fine diced pork or other meat of tvp product., blend chiles w/ 4+- garlic cloves, pour over fried meat, simmer for an hour and thin or thicken w/ water/stock to desired consistency. A very American dish, Native American.
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Elements Of Americanization?
Oh, I agree about the skinless chicken breast generalization.
I had an order for a 5 gal. bucket of lobsters, freshly hauled on Wed. at $2/lb for Thanksgiving. As the sea gods would have it, there were eight foot swells and the lobstermen stayed home. I got a big pork butt on the smoker last night and a bunch of garden vegetables to roast, and red chile "gravy" and blueberry pies for Thanksgiving.
The lobsters are still on order for Fri, but high winds, heavy rains and thunder are predicted, so it doesn't look good, but at least it's not a blizzard.
I find the modern American genetically altered tukeys w/ silicone breast implants to be an Americanization of a traditional American food. Pass will pass.
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Elements Of Americanization?
Thanks, Fatima, spot on about individualism and American being products of our culture. What are you having for Thanksgiving?
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Elements Of Americanization?
Mike, I dunno, I feel that in rural England there is still a lot of good pub grub to be had. I feel what you say is true for London and other urban areas.
S place that has ale "in the wood" usually has good traditional fare as well.
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Elements Of Americanization?
Ubiquitous use of tomatoes in American- Italian cuisine, parm too. Bean and cheese glop, call it Mexican, charge a lot for it, and publicize the Margaritas. "Pub Fare" that would be unrecognizable in the UK.
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I lost a bet re: CT rivers. Now I have to eat shad roe this Spring. Need advice.
I used to catch a lot of cod when I lived in Norway. I felt like I won an extra prize when the cod was filled w/ roe; loved the tongues and cheeks too.
I'd be worried if I lost a bet and had to eat a mess of Pop Tarts or Big Macs!
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Food that makes you particularly sad?
Organic too. Deer heart and liver are my favorites.
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Nominees for Best Thanksgiving Movies & TV (showcasing food)
Pieces of April. April's trials and tribulations in attempting to cook her first Thanksgiving meal, in her crummy apartment, for her dysfunctional family.
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I lost a bet re: CT rivers. Now I have to eat shad roe this Spring. Need advice.
In Maine, when the wild plum or shad bush is in flower, the shad are running in the rivers, is an old saying.
I love it floured and fried in butter.
Stuck, if you can suck crawdad heads, what's the problem?
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Guy's Big Bite: What demographic are they targeting?
Thanks, kp, I haven't been to a fast food chain since a Mikkie Dee's was $.15 (just a little hyperbole there) and I like DDD too. Fun regional junk food, usually. Haven't yet seen the other show yet.
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What are the foods you grew up with?
Lots of good Russian and 'Merican food:
Soups, borscht, schi, chicken garlic veggie; I remember the big hunk of soup meat, steaming on the plate to be cut in thick tender slices.
Prune stuffed veal roast, veal beast.
Great fried chicken, fried liver and onions.
Stes and pot roasts.
Pielmenie, pierogies, kielbasi, kapusta and great corn rye.
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South American food?
Yuca & plantano, frijoles negro y arroz tambien por favor!
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South American food?
I had them on the upper reaches of the Amazon in the Beni, Bolivia. Wood grilled, they were tender white meat, but boney. How did you have cappybara? I had it grilled on a big spit in the Beni as well.
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What are you a stubborn purist about?
Isn't food, all regional by definition? A "blueberry bagel" in Maine is sure as hell ain't the same as a bagel in Brooklyn! etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad naseum...
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South American food?
Cuy! Cuy! Cuy! What a great onomopoedic name!
Roasted cow udder and iguana.
I love the irony of eating piranas.
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What are you a stubborn purist about?
Chile without beans is real chile. I just made a batch of red chile con carne; dried red chiles, garlic water, salt and diced pork (the carne), then it was served over the beans, toped w/ jack cheese and dice raw onions. As AB said, chile con carne con frijoles. My dad ordered a bowl of chile at our favorite restaurant in New Mexico and when it arrived, he asked, Where are the beans?" I replied"You didn't ask for beans."
Chile w/ kidney beans and tomato is bean stew.
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South American food?
Majadito, a charasco and good ol' chicharon w/ a big pitcher of chicha, sopa de mani, pollo a la broasted, quinoa and papalisa.
