[Sca-cooks] OT (semi): unexpected foodie reference

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 8, 2006, at 2:16 PM, SilverR0se at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/6/2006 7:30:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> adamantius.magister at verizon.net writes:
>
>
>> McGee on food and cooking?"
>>
>
> I caught that, too and got a good giggle out of it! Nice to know  
> that at
> least one of their writers reads.
>
> Howard Mcgee has a number of excellent books about why food behaves  
> like it
> does.
>
> Renata

And I'd have been disappointed if they'd mentioned Robert L. Wolke  
instead ;-)

A friend of mine who is a writer actually sent me an article clipped  
from, I believe, the LA Times (it might actually have been by Charles  
Perry; I'll have to go look at it if it hasn't crumbled by now), but  
IIRC it featured a blow-by-blow account of McGee doing battle with  
the question of whether you can speed up the roasting of chickens or  
baking potatoes by sticking various heat-conductive spiky things  
(like nails) in them...

Adamantius