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

[SilverR0se at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/8/2006 11:28:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
adamantius.magister at verizon.net writes:


> 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...

That doesn't sound like the kind of thing Charles Perry writes but it does 
sound like the sort of thing Howard McGee does - he is hours of amusement for 
food and/or science geeks, of which I am both.

Renata