Robert Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:16 -0500, PJ wrote: > >> Shawn McKenzie wrote: >> >>> PJ wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Daniel Brown wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:42, PJ <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Right on. Good comments. >>>>>> No offense taken and none intended. >>>>>> I am enoying the list and will continue to participate, if i may. >>>>>> I have learned a great deal already and really do appreciate the help. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> So you mentioned your involvement in television production and >>>>> briefly touched on cooking shows and such.... what brought you into >>>>> the insanity of web programming? New stage in life, or specifically >>>>> to work on your daughter's site? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Her necessity and my curiosity coupled with an interesting challenge. :-) >>>> After this, there's the other site http://www.chiccantine.com - that's >>>> just a start for now... we're aiming for a really great site on food >>>> that will be instuctional as well as enlightening for all to learn how >>>> to "really" deal with great food - what it is all "really" about take a >>>> look at the link below the signature. You might learn something about >>>> vanilla. >>>> BTW, we'll be looking for great programmers and designers who will want >>>> to participate in the "adventure" (as that is what it will be) - we'll >>>> surely be doing this as a non-profit thing and hope to develop something >>>> profitable along the way. The startup will require dedication and some >>>> time with the hope of worthwhile earnings once things are rolling. >>>> Requirements are: love of food (the real, natural stuff), a hate for >>>> Monsanto, corn >>>> >>>> >>> What? Monsanto makes great weed killers and what the hell is wrong with >>> corn?!?! Have you seriously never roated a cob in the husk over a wood >>> fire and then submerged the cob into a vat of melted butter? Plus pigs, >>> cows and chickens eat it. Mmmm... >>> >>> >> Ooooh, boy.... now this is really serious... >:o >> I think your ignorance will be forgiven, maybe! And this is not meant >> disparagingly but you'd better find out about Monsanto and corn and how >> they are probably the greatest destructors of the the environment and >> our own bodies? Google it and get a hold of some books, like try Michael >> Pollan; do you have any idea of what Monsanto does and to whom and how? >> Do you know how corn is destroying whole economies of countries? Corn is >> sweeping continents because of human greed - it is being used to create >> all sorts of artificial food ingredients and even to produce petrol >> (oil) substitutes... even your own body is probably so full of corn >> derivatives that it is surprising that you haven't turned into a corn >> cob by now -- especially if you are not paying attention, and I mean >> great attention, to what you eat... like MacDos and pre-packaged >> prepared foods... just think for a minute: according to the current >> business models in just about everything including and especially the >> food industry... how do you think they boost their profits... certainly >> not by raising prices... nooooooh, that would not be cool... they just >> downgrade the quality of the ingredients and the workers so that if >> ;you are not eating shit by the time it gets to your enteron (that is a >> word - one that Enron paid some 6 million smackers fo an agency and then >> found out that that is the the entire digestive tract right from one >> input hole to the output hole) :-D , it is a miracle.... >> glad to have this opportunity to rile - that is exactly the kind of >> thing that we want to do with the site that we are starting to >> develop... to destroy ignorance about food - to enllighten, inform and >> teach to have a greater society of well fed and healthy individuals... >> don't foget, you are what you eat - the name escapes me at the moment, >> but it was a great French chef of the 18th century who said that... >> I could go on at great length on that subject... but I have to goet some >> work done... >> > > My wife bakes bread from scratch... delicious. I'm so lucky to have such > an awesome woman. She cooks most meals from basic ingredients. Her > favourite book is the Joy of Cooking. > That's ok, great for a start... there are so many books out there that are really great; but unfortunately there are far more that are done by schlubs and total idiots. As Benjie Franklin said, out of 100% you can figure 8% is silver and the remaining 2 is gold. And as Julia Child told my wife, "They sure do get in our way, don't they!" It is a rare cookbook that is true and has functional recipes. Too many chefs (or rather those that pretend to be) lack the true essence of a great human being and that is sharing their knowledge and giving pleasure to others. One of the greatest living thefs is a froggie by the name of Michel Kerever who, last I knew, had and probably still has a restaurant in Paris called "Les Deux Colonnes"; he has a book out of some 600 pages with no illustrations and all his recipes work. A miracle. If we keep this thread going, you will indeed learn "whoami"...heh...heh...heh LOL ;-) :-D 8-) -- unheralded genius: "A clean desk is the sign of a dull mind. " ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
