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The Saveur 100 Is Out
I lived in Cincinnati for 20 years and nothing beats Skyline.
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#60 Los Paisanos Butchers on Smith St should be mentioned..great sausages, meats and organic chickens...not to mention wild boar.
From Barolo
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On any other day, I would agree with the assessment of tomato aspic. But today Michael Ruhlman posted this (yowza!). So at least it's a coincidence worth noting.
But hand washing dishes? Huh? It's definitely _not_ noble since it uses so much more water. In fact, that's what I love most about my dishwasher... it makes something that might have seemed lazy to my puritan ancestors seem downright virtuous. (Take that, puritan ancestors.)
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I picked up the magazine the other day - usually I don't bother with foodie mags. It is very attractive, visually - the photos really added heft and meaning and interest to the list of 100, overall.
Here's what caught my attention as I leafed through it (though I will go back and read more thoroughly later):
* Oseland has a nice touch, I think - for the magazine overall. It is beginning to interest me again after many years of complete disinterest.
* The calendar ("agenda") with historic happenings listed was good.
* Steven Shaw's "Empire of Egg Rolls" caught my attention.
* The beautiful photo of Madhur Jaffrey and her essay "Maiden Voyage".
* Rancho Gordo of course is the Bean Guy of Choice and the photo of his beans was glorious.
* Euell Gibbons should be featured more often. He had a lot to say.
* Octopus Apotehosis - Yes. Octopus rocks.
* Rachel Lauden on the Diccionario Enciclopedico de Gastronomia Mexicana. Anything Rachel writes is more than okay with me. She is brilliant.
* Nice to see Concord grapes focused on.
* Asian fruits. Next up, Asian desserts made with vegetables I hope.
* Gastronomica. Glad to see it noted.
* The books noted in Auteur! Auteur! are all stunning examples of self-publishing. Commendable. Fantastic, actually.
* Turmeric by Jaffrey. Very cool.
There's a lot enclosed on this little shiny pages. I'm a happy camper.
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I have not made an aspic since 1986. Handwashing dishes is funny to me. A dear friend always wants to handwash my dishes after dinner parties, Christmas day she dropped a crystal wine goblet in my sink and broke it. She felt bad. I said to her this, "This is why I bought a 7 cycle dishwasher with a china crystal setting."
Also you use far more water when handwashing. Water seems to be the topic of the times.
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this was the most disappointing saveur 100 issue for me.
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Adam, you stole my post. Ed, I thought the same thing when I read about tomato aspic. Bleah!
Hand-washing dishes just isn't all it's cracked up to be. Then again, that's why I invite lots of people to my parties--more hands in/at the sink to wash and dry! ;-)
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No to #80. I'm already dreading Super Bowl Sunday, which has turned into an annual unwelcome Cincinnati chili event. Every year an excited friend brings the concoction to my party, but I suspect he's the only one who actually enjoys the mess of spaghetti, meaty sauce, wieners and who knows what else. This has gone on for at least three years now, and I don't know how to nip the abomination in the bud.
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Adam, I thought it was quite romantic, the paean. Uh . . . it was a bit too romantic for me, as a matter of fact. :)
Great essay though, and I wonder if whomever has to come up with these Top 100 lists came across it at one time or another. Because I sure wouldn't put hand-washing dishes on any Top list. I wouldn't even put loading or unloading the dishwasher on any Top list. As a matter of fact if I could get away with taking the spatula and serving the food directly onto people's hands I would.
That would be great. Just throw the people in the shower afterwards. Ahhh.
A Lazy Libra,
Karen
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OK, Karen. That was actually a nice paean to doing the dishes by hand. For small loads, hand-washing is fine. I just wish I had the choice of putting large loads in a dishwasher on "dinner party" occasions.
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wait, i thought chefs have foul mouths. "a gas leak" is the verbatim description? i have heard much worse (read: NSFW) descriptions for durian...
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HAND-WASHING DISHES?!?!? Egads! This was written by someone who clearly has a dishwasher and the luxury of choice in the matter. The Saveur editor who likes washing dishes by hand so much is invited to visit my kitchen sink anytime.
Adam Kuban at 10:45AM on 01/08/08
Funny how these things get nominated as good ideas, isn't it.
I remember one very heartfelt appeal to the handwashing dishes camp, a little while ago.
Hmmm.
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That's my point. You have to have lived in Cincinnati for 20 years to love Skyline chili. I feel the same way about Gabila's Potato Knishes in New York. You have to have lived here to love them. As far as tomato aspic is concerned, I think I've had credible versions of it. I just don't understand how someone can love, love, love it.
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I lived in Cincinnati for 20 years and nothing beats Skyline.