Food and Health Room

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[Londoner]

I feel sick. They all seem to be very awkward and a bit disgusting to me although I was fond of some of them very long ago. This is how you change when you change the style of your life.

[Piling]

While my mouth is watering…

in Western culture, I think that – as in the high Middle Age –, the worst of the 7 Sins is not Luxuria (lust) but Gula (gluttony). Diets are the new religions, creators of Diets are our new gurus and people are starving themselves as some monks frightened by Hell.

And Vegans are our new Puritans.

[Piling]

This is a nice praising of salt :

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

[Anthea]

Black Pudding (blood pudding) was almost unheard of for many years - it might have been someting on menues in cheap workmen's cafes - but in recent times it has become very popular even in a lot of fine dining - I never eat it myself

[Piling]

If it is like our boudin noir it should be fine.

[Anthea]

Traditional use in breakfast fry-ups







But now it is used in many upmarket restaurants









A couple of years ago most English people would not have eaten black pudding - apart from the rather strange people in the north

Now almost everyone is willing to pay a fortune when it is served in fine dining restaurants

[Piling]

it is a cheap but good meal in France, but never eaten for breakfast. The white version has nothing to do with blood, it is more for winter feasts (with cognac or porto and truffles) :

[Piling]

Bought a Japanese whisky not so easy to find in Europe (so it is sold in 500 ml) :



I will taste it soon, that is my first Japanese whisky

[Anthea]

it is a cheap but good meal in France, but never eaten for breakfast. The white version has nothing to do with blood, it is more for winter feasts (with cognac or porto and truffles) :

I like the thought of white pudding - I might try some

I hope you enjoy your whisky - I have never tasted any whisky - I have other vices

[Piling]

No pudding, no whisky… ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE FROM ENGLAND ???

[Anthea]

No pudding, no whisky… ARE YOU SURE YOU ARE FROM ENGLAND ???

No whisky - no alcohol - no cigarettes - no wine

[Piling]

Between you and Londoner, I think I am the bad element of this veggie ashram

Sunday we celebrate my sister's birthday.So a big, long French meal :

Apéritif
– gougères, champagne.

Entrée
Feuilleté de pommes et crottin de chèvre au foie gras
pineau des Charentes

Plat
Coq au vin rouge
Châteauneuf du Pape

Fromage
Brie ou coulommiers
Côtes du Rhône

Dessert
tarte à la frangipane, mousse de pomme et pommes sautées à la cannelle et gingembre
tarte à la frangipane, mousse de poire et poire sautées au gingembre et à la coriandre
Champagne.

[Anthea]

Between you and Londoner, I think I am the bad element of this veggie ashram

Sunday we celebrate my sister's birthday.So a big, long French meal :

Apéritif
– gougères, champagne.

Entrée
Feuilleté de pommes et crottin de chèvre au foie gras
pineau des Charentes

Plat
Coq au vin rouge
Châteauneuf du Pape

Fromage
Brie ou coulommiers
Côtes du Rhône

Dessert
tarte à la frangipane, mousse de pomme et pommes sautées à la cannelle et gingembre
tarte à la frangipane, mousse de poire et poire sautées au gingembre et à la coriandre
Champagne.

After eating all that you will have to change your signature from



into one stating how much you have gained

[Londoner]

This is a nice praising of salt :

“There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”
— Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

He was a poet without any knowledge in physics. Yes there is something Sacred about salt because all our bones made up of salt, calcium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium