Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)
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HN comment orderIn Italy we say: "A lot of spices are to cover the taste of bad ingredients". It means that if you use a lot of spices ( we _usually_ use only black pepper and salt ), you are going to cover the taste of the ingredients you are using, we believe that you need to use good ingredients to have flavourful recipes, if an ingredient tastes bad you shouldn't use it. Also we always search for the balance, there shouldn't…
One of the best jokes I have heard is - English invaded most of the world looking for spices and still have not figured out how to use them.
"In Europe, meat was considered the manliest, strongest component of a meal," Laudan notes, and chefs wanted it to shine. So they began cooking meat in meat-based gravies, to intensify its flavor. Main thesis. Interestingly enough, the European pallate has also had a dterimental effect on some oriental and african cuisines athat were historically more spicy. That bein said, history doesn't really bear out the main thses as laid out in the headline. Spices were a very late addition to…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-30 | How Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking | Petiver | 48 | 44 |
| 2017-09-01 | How snobbery helped take the spice out of European cooking | Geekette | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-03-25 | How Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015) | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-10-05 | How Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015) | Tomte | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-02-25 | Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)First breakout | Tomte | 67 | 52 |
| 2020-05-26 | How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking | jxub | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-11 | Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | Tomte | 92 | 136 |
| 2022-12-22 | Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015) | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-02-09 | Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-09-27 | How the Spice Was Taken Out of European Cooking (2015) | redbell | 4 | 0 |