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Found this neat page of the best grub in the planet. Flickriver: avlxyz's photos tagged with beef

Whoa.....I got some e-mail about Jungle Jim's. I tell ya, it isn't my website at all. It's NOT my store. As I said, I SHOP there. It really is an amazing place. Reminds me of Schwegman Brothers that we used to go to in New Orleans 45 years ago. When my wife and I have out of town guests...

My fav market. If you google "jungle", you'll come up with Jungle Jim's market. It's here in Fairfield, Ohio. If you are ever in the area, Jungle Jim's is NOT to be passed by. From goat heads, rattlesnake meat, durian, hundreds cheeses or hot sauces or ostrich eggs, this is THE place to get...

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Now I did a little research awhile back on ancient Roman recipes. Quite a few survive, tho the nomenclature can be puzzling. Anyway, some of the recipes were so salty, they were inedible. The researchers thought they had blundered on the translations. They had NOT. Alas, one of the symptoms...

Well, I know firsthand about health standards there. I used to go to a little eatery in Palau on occasion. I'd have to share a clam or two with a cat that would jump up on my table. I never minded and never became sick or died from it. And I never became ill from slicing from an already...

Once again, going back to my time Sardinia there was a little shop. Cheeses and salami hung from brown twine looped around hooks attatched to the ceiling. The sun beat into the window causing these to sweat fats that stained the butcher paper below. It was a favorite place of mine to buy...

Hoooooley bejeezus. zfranca, you have NAILED it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Ahhhhh.... Prime rib steaks grilled to perfection, colossal red king crab, succulent corn on the cob, sauteed portabella shrooms, 16 ct tiger shrimp sauteed in garlic butter, baked taters with choice of fixins, ceaser salad and ice cream cake. Beer and a fire. Need I say more?

Noisy and gross Ha. We have a woman at work that makes me ILL. She has a "shelf butt" that I could perch a dozen beer cans on. She makes a point of eating healthy at work. Carrots. First she sits down and wraps her pipe cleaner legs around each other about six times, puts on her reading...

Well....neither of help. The bread was vesicular and a half inch thick. Seems like almost of the moisture was replaced by oil which gave it the "melt in your mouth quality". As for the maggot cheese.......I'll pass. Seems like only old men eat the stuff. I have developed an affinity for...

In my younger days I used to gig my own frogs. Then, I bought them at the Market. I started reading the labels. A lot came from India. Did they come from the Ganges river? Remember the "ghats". Funeral pyres fueled with wood. Wood is expensive in India. The poor cannot afford enough wood...

Back in 1973 I was in Sardinia. Used to walk the cobblestone streets there and take it all in. Young couples with chaperons gravitated to little carts on the sidewalk. Taking notice, I found they were buying pieces of "pizza". I bought one and was hooked. It was an oily bisquit type of...

I once saw Julia Child melting cheese on a hamburger with a genuine bernzo-matic propane torch. I have a Wagner 850 degree heat gun. Anyone have experience using such a device in the kitchen? Or would it be considered gauche?

Now, an old friend of mine grows green beans and dries them in her attic. She throws down a clean white sheet, spreads out the beans, and covers them with another sheet. A week later, she climbs those creaky stairs into that hellishly hot attic, gathers the edges of the bottom sheet and hauls...