[Sca-cooks] Ethnic market epiphanies
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Fri Mar 8 23:03:12 PST 2013
And good thing too. This was after all a product that was used much in the
same way as vinegar.
I bought some "verjuice" at a farmer's market and was dismayed to find it
was essentially sweet grape juice. While there is some evidence of medieval
people drinking it, Roman soldiers drank something very like vinegar too.
It's very name - "green juice" - emphasizes how tart it should be.
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
In a message dated 3/8/2013 2:13:03 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
In my experience it is far more sour, acrid, acidic, and just generally
stronger than any verjus made in a California winery. I can pretty much drink
a glass of California winery verjus straight up. But not the Middle
Eastern stuff - whew!
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