[Leica] rice cookers, disease, how to cook steel cut oats, and tina's picture

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> Sonny --
> 
> First of all you should know you can't talk about recipes, cooking,
> utensils, plastic containers, or pretty much anything touching on food or
> drink without the disease-niks leaping up with grave warnings of imminent
> death.  Once the topic of new poisons/diseases/bacterias/viruses is (very
> temporarily) exhausted they get in their cars and drive home on the
> highways...... while we all breath the air this produces, without
> discussion.  Or stop breathing it, if we end up one of the hundreds of
> thousands who die in car accidents every year.

sorry we woke you up Vince, but welcome to the conversation...
:-)
you can always belch, yawn, spew your misconceptions, go back to sleep...


Steve

> Flannery O'Connor had a great line about a character in one of her stories:
> "Of diseases, she preferred the lingering and incurable."
> 
> Meanwhile, I don't particularly like big energy-suckin' all-day electric
> appliances and on steel cut oats I can offer a super low-energy quick and
> easy technique we use at my house: put on the oats before bed, bring to a
> boil, turn off, cover (3 minutes total). Then sleep. Then get up and get
> them hot and eat 'em. Total time spent cooking is about five minutes. It's
> my girlfriend who taught me this (she lived in Ireland for a few years with
> a good IRA man who would -- in those days -- have preferred to go by 
> gunshot
> than a starch-bacillus I bet) and she's a big time disease-nik -- my
> toothbrush was poisonous, it turned out -- so I cannot possibly let word
> slip that leaving them starches out might kill her.
> 
> Tina's photograph is great, btw. Classically beautiful. I took a moment off
> from the rice discussion to give it a look.......
> 
> Vince P
> 
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