Bohemian peas- was: [Sca-cooks] Cardamom?

[Alex Clark]

At 02:02 PM 3/9/2004 -0700, Thorvald wrote:
> > Is there that much difference between dried whole peas and dried split
> > peas? I'm not familiar with the process of creating split peas...
>
>It's done by specialists in Belgium, who place each individual pea
>in a vice, after examining it from all angles, and with a single
>blow from a chisel split the pea into exactly two parts, discarding
>the husk.

They put the pea in the vice? I thought the vice went in the peascod. Or 
the codpiece. Or something.

Alex/Henry