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I remember reading this exact description of industrial cake production in maybe Harpers', sometime in probably the mid 1990s.

As I look around my kitchen and fridge, the only processed foods I find are dried pasta, high end tomato sauce which, by the ingredients, is close to what I make from scratch when I have time, and Thai curry paste. I tried making Thai curry paste from scratch. Once. It's amazingly difficult to grind up lemon grass with a mortal and pestle (I think nowadays they use food processors, but I don't have one).

Now I am not being all moral here...these selections are left over from my days as a rad veg. It's just that I've read too many articles like the cake story, and I gross out very easily for a biologist. I won't cook with things that I don't know the chain of custody from living thing to my tummy.

Speaking of my tummy, do you have a recipe for the Apple Spice Cake? I'd like to try it, since I can't live in BC anymore.

Thanks for posting this.

by PIGL on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 11:39:24 AM EST
Speaking of my tummy, do you have a recipe for the Apple Spice Cake?

Well, a friend of mine has a good recipe:

Take two eggs, a pinch of cinnamon, 350 g of wheat flour, 200 g of milk, four large apples, 200 g of brown sugar and two bottles of good whiskey.

1 - Mix eggs and milk.

2 - Taste the whiskey to make sure that it is a good one.

3 - Finely mix flour and sugar.

4 - Make sure that the whiskey is still good.

5 - Gadually put zhe flour/sugar mix into the eggs and milk.

6 - 'Ave another tazte of ze fine whiskey.

7 - Addd a pinzh of sinnamon.

8 - Open ze zekond bottle of whizky.

9 - Tozz a few sppoonfuls of kurry into ze mix. Curry is alwayz good.

10 - Swipe a zhot of ze whizky.

11 - GOTO 10

12 - find anuzzer bottle of whizky.

13 - chuck a roasted chicken into ze mix.

14 - 'ave anuzzer drunk.

15 - go to bed. who vould vant to eat kake anywayz ven zey ave wizky.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Caution! Remember to turn off the stove before you turn in.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 03:32:33 PM EST
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It's amazingly difficult to grind up lemon grass with a mortal and pestle

In the running for Typo of the Year?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 04:00:47 PM EST
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by PIGL on Sun Apr 27th, 2008 at 05:09:15 PM EST
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