[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 19, Issue 161

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From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>

Arwen commented:
> As far as loot, my in-laws are buying our plane tickets to Estrella for
> us (yay!); my folks just gave money, but since it's been more than a
> year since I had any new period cookbooks, guess where that will go?
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

I think the usual answer here to that question has been that it will 
depend upon whether a particular time or place is among your interests, 
whether you want the authors redactions or just a reprint of the period 
recipe etc. 
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Well, I have quite a few good cookbooks already (from both of the above categories) .... mostly, I was just wondering what might have come out in the last year or two that I missed because I just wasn't looking at the fun toys I couldn't afford to buy (last year's Christmas money, as I recall, went to buy two new tires ... <sigh>).

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Yes, this sounds like a great find. We've discussed kitchen knife care 
here on several occasions. I just checked and I've not turned that info 
into a file yet. If you are interested, let me know and I'll send you 
my rough notes or create and get the file online.
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I think that would be a cool thing.  Another thing I'd like to be able to invest in this year are a couple of period-style knives (Marged's husband makes some mighty nice ones), and I know I can't treat them the same way I do my Henkels and the "new" Wusthof.

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> (finding it a challenge to get back to the low-carb diet after the
> holiday eat-a-thon!)

Uh? Isn't getting a nice bread knife a bit counter-productive for a 
low-carb diet? :-)
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Ah, but you see, I'm married to a breaditarian....

Besides ... the bread knife seems to do a great job on tomatoes and eggplant, too! ;)

Arwen
(never one to turn down a gift from the kitchen gods...)