[Sca-cooks] Seljuk/Rumi/Sufi Cuisine

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Elaine Koogler wrote:

> So far as oysters are concerned, my favorite way to eat them is fried.  It's
> too bad that the restaurant in Yorktown that used to make such good ones is
> gone (Nick's Seafood Pavilion...my favorite place to eat when I was in
> school at W&M).  I do not eat them raw though I'm sure Master A is
> absolutely correct about the flavor.  I have a problem, bordering on a
> phobia, with slimy things...I can't even watch the movie Alien without
> leaving the room when "She" comes on the screen and does her "thing."  I
> have also had a wonderful casserole made with oysters.  And my mother used
> to make wonderful oyster stew.

A little exercise here: name a slimy food, please. One that actually contains or is covered with, slime. Arguably, okra? Zucchini? The last raw oyster I touched, it was what was known as wet, what with having been in the ocean and all...

Are you sure your issue is not with putrescence?

Adamantius






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