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Month: May 2012
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Since we do not discuss about beer or liquor in our blog. We came up with this idea.How about mixing different types of wine together and develop a periodic table for that? For instance: I would like to swirl 60% rose’ with 30% merlot and 10% riesling. What do you get from that?
Vino-gourmet!
Perhaps this avant-garde idea is going to be a wine maker’s worst nightmare, but why not.
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Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
AC/DC
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Smoke point: 216 °C
3700 kJ/100g
72% Linoleic (Omega 6)
<1% a-Linolenic (Omega 3)
<1% Palmitoleic acid
16% Oleic acid
11% saturated fats, 89% unsaturated fatsAlso contained:
Proanthocyanidins, HDL-C, phenols, steroids (campesterol, beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol), vitamin E.
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CUTLERY
It’s quite simple – start at the outside and work in as the meal progresses. The soup spoon will always be on the extreme right if soup is the first course. It will be second from the right if served as a second course. Dessert cutlery will always be at the top of the place setting with the fork facing right and the spoon above it facing left.
DRINKS
Glasses are also placed in the order in which they are used. So, for example, water, champagne, white wine, red wine, dessert wine. A napkin might be placed on the plate or to the left of the forks.
HOW TO EAT
Some dishes require their own etiquette.
Bread rolls: don’t cut with a knife – break with fingers.
Soup: tip the bowl and scoop the spoon away from you; sip, don’t slurp.
Asparagus: eaten with fingers, start with the head.
Oysters: use an oyster fork to detach the oyster from its shell. Hold the shell between thumb and first two fingers, place against lower lip and slide the oyster and its juice out of the half shell. Don’t swallow it whole. Chew slowly and savour. -
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