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goji berries plantThe Garlic Press - Food Ruining Tool Or Handy Kitchen Gadget?
To press or not to press, that is the question! Garlic is undoubtedly high on the list of seasonings for many chefs and food lovers. It is found in foods worldwide, from main courses to side dishes. Honey garlic ribs, garlic mashed potatoes, garlic bread, and the list goes on. Have I whetted your appetite?
But what is the best method for you to prepare this pungent herb? This question has been a hot topic among food preparers for years. Some feel that the garlic press is a wonderful kitchen tool that everyone should own. Others are sure that it ruins the properties of garlic entirely. This isn't a clear cut issue, being a matter of taste (literally).
There are two common methods of adding fresh garlic to your cooking. First,you could peel and dice the cloves by hand, using a knife and cutting board. The other method would be to use a garlic press, and extrude the garlic directly into the dish you are preparing. There's no denying that a good garlic press can save time and mess. Most of the presses don't even require you to remove the peel or touch the peeled garlic directly, keeping the smell of garlic off your hands. It is easy to use the pressed garlic in foods since the garlic comes out almost as a paste and stirs into, or is spread on, your creation easily.
A good garlic press will have lots of room in the hopper and be fairly easy to squeeze. Some of the cheaper models take a lot of strength to press, and this is difficult for anyone with small hands. A high quality garlic press will be easy to clean, will actually extrude all of a clove instead of just mashing it inside the hopper, and be sturdy enough to last. More than one cheap press has broken at the hinge after a few uses. One of these cheaper models will have you cursing the manufacturer in short order.
Many chefs prefer to use diced or chopped garlic instead. This is usually done by smashing the clove using the side of your knife and hitting the flat of the knife with your hand. You can then pull the loosened peel off of the clove. A quick dicing, and your garlic is ready for use. This traditional method is quite effective and easy to master.
You will have to make up your own mind on which method is best for you. If you don't mind a little extra work and mess, you can get by fine without a garlic press. If you want to keep the odor off your hands and need to process a lot of garlic fast, then a press may be just what you need.
Tim Ebl loves to cook in his own kitchen, and tries out new kitchen tools as often as possible. For more articles on various kitchen gadgets go to Kitchen Gadgets
Factory Farming, Modern Meat Hormones, Cervical Cancer And A Small Penis
Everyone has heard the expression "you are what you eat". However, in our drug-and-technology industrial food economy based on factory farming "protein" such as chicken, lamb and beef or even fish, you may discover that you're slightly more than simply what you eat these days. Other "stuff" may be happening.
When a guy's voice begins to migrate towards falsetto and wee breasts begin to form, you want to be asking "what's going on here"? When couples struggle to get pregnant...when a field mouse makes more morphologically sound sperm cells than an adult human male...when 2nd and 3rd generation women develop higher rates of miscarriage and cervical cancer...when infant boys show atrophied and un-descended testicles and undersized penis, then it's time to look to what's inside our food chain such as the slough of man-made estrogens like DES or diethylstilbestrol and growth stimulants used to trick Mother Nature.
Where's The Meat? Getting consistent quality cheap meat seems a basic right to Americans. Once grass land feeding proved inferior to mass-produced feedlot cattle, delivering beef to the American dinner table would never be the same. Bringing tens of thousands of cattle into a confined space, limiting movement, keeping them indoors standing up to their knees in muck and waste meant introducing heaps of antibiotics in order to control disease and keep the cattle alive until slaughtering time.
It also meant working out chemical "tricks" to stimulate growth, such as using heavy dosages of female hormone compounds delivered to one and all cattle!
Meat Hormone History - Feeding America Scientifically. Initially, DES or diethylstilbestrol was synthesized in the late 1930s. A University of California poultry researcher discovered after a test that DES produced a curious, if not outright profound effect in male chickens. Treated males were instantly chemically castrated, changing into capons, exhibiting pronounced and juicy breast meat after their diethylstilbestrol injections! Plus, animals could be brought to the slaughterhouse and market significantly quicker...which meant lowered costs and increasing profits!
The dinner bell rang loud and clear. Treat chickens with DES and you've got fast-producing, lower cost chicken on America's dining table.
All was hunky-dory until in the 1950s the FDA began processing reports that showed that low income southern state males, and dogs, were beginning to show sing of "feminization". In other words, DES or diethylstilbestrol traces in the chicken were building up in the tissues of 1st and 2nd generation males, altering male hormonal activity, resulting in un-descended testicles, higher pitched feminine range voices, abnormal breast enlargement, a small penis, impotence, infertility and increased risk for testicular cancer. What a price for a cheap meal!
Chicken Says Goodbye To DES - Beef And Women Say Hello. Proving the brilliance of Big Government "consumer protection", the FDA and Department of Agriculture created the necessary sort of media ballyhoo about chickens feminizing American males, with the result that DES or diethylstilbestrol was banned as a growth hormone in "chicken production".
However, in a left-hand-doesn't-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing decision, the same governmental bodies sanctioned the use of DES or diethylstilbestrol for "beef cattle" production.
No surprise that beef cattle would be enhanced by DES, cattle would grow larger quicker, move to the slaughtering sheds almost a month earlier, cost less to feed and produce more profits, yet result in a continuing supply of low cost meat for the American consumer! Just like we like it!
And where were you in the "food chain"? If you had a steak in the years 1954 to around 1981, then you were munching on residue DES, antibiotics and who-knows-what-else. About 95% of total US beef production exploited the nature-bending properties of diethylstilbestrol!
What About Pregnant Women? By 1957 pharmaceutical ads run in obstetrics and gynecology publications trumpeted the claim that "you can build a bigger stronger baby by using DES" despite earlier known research that hormone manipulation during pregnancy was risky business. Who knows how many diethylstilbestrol scripts were handed out, like candy or vitamins to unsuspecting Mums?
For "DES girls", as these offspring were soon labeled, cervical cancer and higher incidence of irregular menstruation, structural malformation of the vagina and cervix, future miscarriages, premature births and infant deaths during their reproductive future. Crazily, the bad news that finally revealed that DES was a huge marketing sham also included news that it could be used as a "morning after" pill to terminate pregnancy!
World Views. No wonder that Europe banned US beef imports in 1989 due to fear of the drug-laced beef production habits of American producers. "You don't want us...then we'll take our beef to other markets" came the instant reply from American producers who let no grass grow beneath their feet when turning to Asian and South American markets. When the price is right, hormone free beef no longer is the issue.
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Superfruits, super powers? - Los Angeles Times
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:17:40 GMT
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A Comparison of Liquid Nutritionals
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:36:47 EST
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Healing power of hedgerows - Telegraph.co.uk
Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:12:33 GMT
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Super berries! New fruits like goji and acai pack a ton of nutrients - New York Daily News
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:32:00 GMT
A new wave of 'super berries' is hitting market shelves, but familiar berries also provide plenty of antioxidants. Ruby red, lush violet and deepest purple berries are an alluring ...
Food Porn Vol.3: Taiwanese Eats
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:10:19 EDT
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