Meat prices, was Re: [Sca-cooks] Marrow substitute

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:
>--- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
><adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
>>  Also sprach Huette von Ahrens:
>>  >--- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
>>  ><adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  Adamantius, doing 87 things at once
>>  >
>>  >At least you have not been 86'd.
>>  >
>>  >Huette :-)
>>
>>  Does that mean I'm still on the menu? Talk about yer ritual cannibalism...
>>
>>  A.
>
>For reasons unknown to me I have been watching that PBS series, 
>"Cooking Under Fire", with
>Ming Tsai, Todd English and Michael Ruhlman.  When they remove a 
>contestant from the contest,
>the contestant is "86'd".  It really isn't a good show.  I haven't 
>learned anything about
>recipes or food that I didn't already know before.  The only thing I 
>have learned is that
>I wouldn't want to be given one hour to produce a couple of 
>impressive dishes where the kitchen
>is too small and everyone has to compete for burners or oven space. 
>Fortunately, the show
>is only 1/2 hour.  Unfortunately, there is nothing else of interest 
>opposite it.

I haven't seen it yet. Under the right circumstances, I could 
probably make a phone call tonight and do the exact same thing 
tomorrow, but I confess a reality TV show in which twelve (or however 
many it is) people compete for a job in a fine New York City 
restaurant is a little _too_ real for me.

A.
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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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