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There's nothing like finding a solution to a problem you have faced. Some time ago I struggled with softening hardened brown sugar. If I had access to page 13 of What Einstein Told His Cook , I would have known the reasoning. Until then some easy and some difficult tips . 10.15.11 have the book now. The author suggests putting the sugar in a tight lidded container, covering it  with a plastic wrap, then placing a damp paper towel on top ans seal it for a day. Other things I learnt from the book: Instant noodles  are deep fried, so they can retain shape.

Man Ray's creation A critic compared The Slave Ship  to "a cat having a fit in a platter of tomatoes." - What the Great Ate

About Jackson Pollock "He was very fastidious about his baking - marvelous bread and pies," said his wife, Lee Krasner."He also made a great spaghetti sauce." - What the Great Ate Henri Matisse could cook three different kinds of onion soup, a popular dish in Northeastern France, where he grew up . - What the Great Ate Even regular chefs can miss the traditional cheese topping on the French onion soup.

While going through a post on French idioms  related to cooking, I wanted to write one such too. The one that first comes to my mind is ulli chesina melu thallaina cheyadu, onion does more good than mom. I dont like raw onions. Raw onions are had as salad in North India. They are had along with lime juice while eating non-vegetarian food in Telangana. They are also used in perugu chutney . I have mostly had this in weddings. Other foods that I associate with weddings is Spinach with Chanal Dal left whole instead of mashed. As a child I have seen elders in villages have small white onions along with buttermilk. Those onions were not agreeable but I wonder why they still had them. On onions: "I don't like food that talks back to you after you've eaten," Chanel said. - What the Great Ate When it comes to food talking theres an idiom in Hindi kal ke chole aaj ko bhole about chole announcing themselves flagging the end of digestion. But so do onions. Actors and...

All kids love icecream and chocolate. You might say except one and each person might know just one person who doesnt like them. Given the popularity of icecream, if I am in the vicinity of kids, I will break into icecream making. Between icecream and hot beverages, I will opt for the hot stuff but recently I did have tutti frutti ice cream . Its a great flavour.

On our train trips mom often packed Pulihora Judith Choate  calls Macaroni and Cheese, a great traveler in her book A Readers Cookbook . Maple-Mustard sauce in this book piques my tongue. Garlic Almonds doesnt. Pollo borracho Cranachan Pissaladiere Liberian coconut bread This bread needs coconut water. Although I can find canned ones, I want to use a fresh coconut for this. Today at Safeway I walked by Zico coconut water . In the last month, I have offered some coconuts to God and each was an experience. Once I broke the coconut and forgot to save the coconut water. Another was so tender that I ate it even before it could get home. One turned rot and thats believed to be a good thing. Ma'amoul Dal Pancakes . I happened to have Patoli  for lunch today which requires yellow split peas to be soaked. I should have soaked them longer for the dish to be more palatable. Yesterday a colleague of mine passionately recalled  dal puri  being made in Caribbe...

The menus in Comfort Table  come with a playlist. I am reminded of MasterChef Australia  where in the contestants had to prepare  a dish that would mimic the sin they chose. nutella french toast sandwiches  fits gluttony. There's a recipe for oysters on the half shell with mignonette sauce. I looked for the mignonette sauce but that didnt follow. I forgot all about the word until I came across it in Near a thousand tables: a history of food . Mignonette  is also a ship with a history and consequences to law.