Bill Reich
5/11/2009 4:49:00 PM
On May 11, 12:47 pm, Will in New Haven <willreich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 12:40 pm, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
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>
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> <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
> > Bill Swears wrote:
> > > Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> > >> Bill Swears wrote:
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> > >>> It is, and for some reason leaves them with a nicer flavor than just
> > >>> softening them in water.
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> > >> "For some reason"???
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> > >> BUTTER!
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> > >> Flavorful fat. Makes almost anything taste better.
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> > > Everybody knows this, but it isn't always true. I have a few recipes
> > > where bringing in extra fat hides the food flavor.
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> > I have yet to see one. Do you have an example?
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> > Not in the sense of "if you pour a stick of melted butter over sushi",
> > where the action would seem unlikely to the point of extremity to ever
> > happen, but one in which the addition of butter/fat might be thought
> > reasonable and turns out to be.
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> For most sushi, it isn't going to matter. If I'm not starving, I'm not
> going to eat it. Or, even better, I'm gonna cook it. In that case, a
> little melted butter over it might be fine..
>
> By the way, Your work precedes Jo Walton's on my bookshelves, under
> "Wasp," not "Spoor." I think of the latter as your pseudonym.
>
> --
> Will in New Haven
I meant "follows," not "precedes."
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Will