Peruvian Authors Launch Alpaca Cookbook “Cooking with alpaca is a challenge, he added. Because of the meat’s strong flavor, it’s best cooked with spices and herbs, and sauces that use wine or pisco, a Peruvian grape brandy.”
First, Do No Farm A review of Richard Manning’s Against the Grain ” Manning argues that the cultivation and commodification of these humble carbs has caused ecological destruction, social inequality, starvation and — in the era of McDonald’s — obesity. And that’s just the beginning. Over the past 10,000 years, he writes, humanity has struck a ‘bitter bargain,” giving up “a large measure of our sensual lives for the bit of security that comes with agriculture.’ ”
Wired’s article on Alton Brown is online - The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking “Brown’s hyperrational approach defies conventional wisdom about food preparation. Cooks typically regard their culinary traditions as gospel, whether they learned them at the Sorbonne or from their great aunt Sibby. Tampering with recipes only leads to trouble. Never mind that a few carefully conducted experiments can expose many common practices as myths. ” Auftn pointed this out a week ago, but I forgot to mention it.