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 Who makes the best BEER?2. San Francisco Steam Beer 3. Pilsner Urbell 4. Stella Artoise 5. Becks 6. St. Paulie Girl 7. Fosters 8. Millers 9. Tecate [only with lime and salt]; do I have some stories on that beer... ) 10. Coors Honorable mention: The Irish stuff, Guinness. Mix that with any of the above and it's great! New Castle Ale. |
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cyna 16-Apr-09, 05:39 |
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pennsylvaniadan 16-Apr-09, 22:35 |
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cyna 20-Apr-09, 11:22 |
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Charles de Maurian's parents' romance & the origin of the word "cocktail": |
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beers Heineken's hasn't tasted the same to me since they started bottling it outside of the Netherlands; same for Pilsner Urquell after the Czech fiasco. Lots of great micro breweries on the west coast - a great area for beer drinkers! |
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Wine & Food: Countess Morphy (Marcelle Azra Forbes) and hubby, Forbes, Ellert. Recipes for wine and cuisine, for foodies and wine lovers. This lady, born at the turn of the last century, is from New Orleans and a member of the esteemed Morphy family, although I'm still researching to discover exactly how she is related to Mr. Paul Morphy. From the Library of Congress: Countess Morphy (Marcelle Azra Morphy Forbes) International Cookbooks, and Ellert Forbes wine cookbook (below): Author: Morphy, Marcelle, Countess. Title: Recipes of all nations, compiled & edited by Countess Morphy. Published: London, Published for Selfridge & co. limited, by H. Joseph limited [1935] Description: 800 p. 22 cm LC Call No.: TX725.M68 Dewey No.: 641.5 Notes: Blank pages for additional recipes inserted after some of the sections. Maps on lining-papers. Subjects: Cookery. Control No.: 9702296 Author: Morphy, Marcelle, countess. [from old catalog] Title: English recipes, Published: London, H. Joseph, limited [1936?] Description: 2 p. l., 7-224 p. 22 cm. LC Call No.: TX717.M74 Subjects: Cookery, English. [from old catalog] Control No.: 7364436 Author: Morphy, Marcelle, Countess. Title: Good food from Italy; a receipt book, by Countess Morphy. Published: London, Chatto & Windus, 1937. Description: 2 p. l., vii-xxiv, 180 p., 1 l. 20 cm. LC Call No.: TX723.M6 Dewey No.: 641.5945 Subjects: Cookery, Italian. Control No.: 5963826 Author: Morphy, Marcelle, Countess. Title: Lightning cookery, by Countess Morphy; cartoons by the author. Published: London, Country life ltd. [1931] Description: 96, [2] p. illus. 19 cm. LC Call No.: TX717.M75 Dewey No.: 641.56 Subjects: Cookery, English. Control No.: 7816861 Author: Morphy, Marcelle, Countess. Title: Mushroom recipes. Edition: [2d ed.] Published: London, Arco Publishers, 1954. Description: 123 p. 19 cm. LC Call No.: TX558.M9M6 1954 Subjects: Cookery (Mushrooms) Control No.: 9797649 Author: Morphy, Marcelle, Countess. Title: The polyglot cookery books. Published: London, ARCO, 1954. Description: v. 22 cm. LC Call No.: TX725.M677 Notes: v. 2. English-German. Subjects: Cookery, International. Control No.: 9365074 Author: Forbes, Ellert. [from old catalog] Title: Wines for everyman, Published: London, H. Joseph limited [1937] Description: 191 p. 19 cm. LC Call No.: TP548.F57 Subjects: Wine and wine making. [from old catalog] Control No.: 9241103 I may try her mushroom recipes. In the meantime, play on (and you may as well eat, drink, and make merry)... Cheers!! Cyn |
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Countess Marcelle Morphy I found a little more info on the Countess, this from a genealogical site ("Louisiana Ancestors"): "The countess travelled in Great Britain, where she first published the majority of her cookbooks and greatly advanced the fame of Creole cuisine. Her books are now kept by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. One of her book jackets claims that her title was an ancient Spanish one and that she was born and raised in New Orleans, where she learned her art from distinguished professional chefs and maids of the Morphy family. By 1931, however, she had moved to England, where her books were for the greater part published. She was married to Ellert Forbes, who assisted with the editing of her books." I'll post any further info I may find regarding Countess Morphy on the PM F&F thread. Play on... Cyn |
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RE: Countess Marcelle Morphy: Thank you, JC. I looked on the internet for her recipes, but what I found were her books for sale. I did order one of the more interesting books, as follows (I added the paragraph breaks for ease of reading): Author: Morphy, Countess (compiled and edited) Title: RECIPES OF ALL NATIONS : Eight Hundred Pages of Recipes From Twenty-Nine Different Countries Publisher: Wise Place Pub: New York Date Pub: 1959(1935) Pages: 821 Binding: Hardback Condition: VERY GOOD in lightly edge-chipped dj Book Id: MAIN000416I Details: Preface, index Summary: Probably the most comprehensive collection of authentic foreign recipes published up to its time between the covers of one volume, and a great many of them have never before appeared in print in this country. Contains over eight hundred pages comprising recipes from twenty-nine different countries. Each country has its own section; with an introduction and a well-arranged contents and index. About the author: "The author of RECIPES OF ALL NATIONS is a Countess in her own right. Her title is an ancient Spanish one, although, as the name suggests, her family is of Irish origin. The Morphys left Ireland some 300 years ago. For many years the Morphys have been noted for the excellence of their family cuisine, and the Countess herself was trained by chefs. This is perhaps of special interest in that today she is probably the only woman in Europe whose work is accepted by the chefs. Besides having achieved this unusual recognition from the best authorities, Countess Morphy has attracted a large following of readers by her articles in the Press and by various books which have appealed to popular tastes. The Countess was born in New Orleans and has made a special study of the Creole cookery of that place. A 32-page section is devoted to this subject in RECIPES OF ALL NATIONS. (from the dj) Very little is known about her, other than her married name was Forbes (Marcelle Azra Morphy Forbes), and she was born in New Orleans at the dawn of the twentieth century, but transplanted in these rainy shores since the early 1930s. A few years later (was it because she was horrified by the English habit of boiling vegetables to death?) she put pen to paper and wrote her seminal book, which marks the first attempt to collect recipes not just from Europe, but further afield. Even by today's standards, they are quite impressive, including Guinea (fricassee of iguana), Vietnam (pho), India (Madras curry), China (pork with sweet and sour sauce) and Japan (sushi, although here the Countess got a bit confused, thinking it was grilled fish). And she shows she was way ahead of her time by enthusiastically embracing Italian cookery, when French was the only foreign cuisine anyone took an interest in. I became misty eyed when I read this passage: "Italian food is the food of a people who have la joie de vivre, who have the gift of song and laughter and who are blessed with the divine gift of enthusiasm which alone leads to the creation of great works of art - and to gastronomic achievements of the highest quality. There is something as glowing in their cookery as there is in their art." As I mentioned, I ordered this book, and I'm now researching her genealogy, as well. Thanks again, Cyn |
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Looking for a better BBQ spare ribs recipe jc |
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re: Looking for a better BBQ spare ribs recipe An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car... He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?" "Just water," says the priest. The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?" The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He's done it again!" |
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Guinness Stouts So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they're gone. He then orders three more. The bartender says, "Sir, I know you like them cold. You don't have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I'll bring you a fresh cold one." The man says, "You don't understand. I have two brothers, one in Australia and one in the States. We made a vow to each other that every Saturday night we'd still drink together. So right now, my brothers have three Guinness Stouts too, and we're drinking together. The bartender thought that was a wonderful tradition. Every week the man came in and ordered three beers. Then one week he came in and ordered only two. He drank them and then ordered two more. The bartender said to him, "I know what your tradition is, and I'd just like to say that I'm sorry that one of your brothers died." The man said, "Oh, me brothers are fine - I just quit drinking." |
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