Recent content by Captain.Sassy

I'm curious to see where this whole food crisis/skyrocketing oil price thing puts the food market in the future. If I had to make a guess, I'd say that in coming years locally produced food will become cheaper relative to shipped food (as fuel prices rise) and that organics will also become...

I can't post URLS yet. Take the 'PERIOD' out and replace it with '.' to have your entire view of ancient cooking completely upended.

wwwPERIODchina.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/15452PERIODhtm The Chinese may well have brought back early ketchup recipes from the Americas.

WRT 1500 years of ketchup: it's an estimate based on the apex of the Mayan civilization. If you study the Mayans, you will realise that they had ketchup back then. As for a bad rap... yes, ketchup has a bad rap. Many restaurateurs will look down on ketchup, as will chefs. Robo410- you're...

Thanks for the welcome. I really don't think ketchup gets a fair shake, though. Like, jokes aside... it is a legitimate sauce. It goes really well on fries and some kinds of sandwich, and even on steak it is good. I don't know why putting ketchup on steak is frowned upon. It doesn't mask...

Hey guys I sent this editorial in to Time Magazine, think they'll run it? The rogue sauce. The black sheep of the culinary world. Marinara's weird cousin that nobody invites to the wedding. These days, it seems that ketchup (or 'catsup' if you're from Texas, Massachussettes, Kentucky...