Comments on: The Butterfly Effect Meme http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/07/23/the-butterfly-effect-meme/ Cook Local, Eat Global Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » The Butterfly Effect II http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/07/23/the-butterfly-effect-meme/#comment-5347 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » The Butterfly Effect II Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:38:43 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=553#comment-5347 [...] Barbara at Tigers & Strawberries gives homage to garlic, herbs, Julia Child, her two grandmothers, and her husband. She says she was tagged by Tana from I Heart Farms, I assume that was via e-mail rather than the posting as well. She chose not to continue the chain. [...] [...] Barbara at Tigers & Strawberries gives homage to garlic, herbs, Julia Child, her two grandmothers, and her husband. She says she was tagged by Tana from I Heart Farms, I assume that was via e-mail rather than the posting as well. She chose not to continue the chain. [...]

]]> By: tanna http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/07/23/the-butterfly-effect-meme/#comment-5295 tanna Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:46:37 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=553#comment-5295 Barbara, thanks for such thoughtful answers. I think this is a most difficult meme. Tasting seems so obvious yet it has taken me the longest to develop. Barbara, thanks for such thoughtful answers. I think this is a most difficult meme.
Tasting seems so obvious yet it has taken me the longest to develop.

]]> By: Danielle http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/07/23/the-butterfly-effect-meme/#comment-5264 Danielle Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:57:13 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=553#comment-5264 Oh, gosh, I don't know. More than anything, it was probably the moment I first decided as a kid that if Mom wasn't going to bake sweets for me, I would have to go ahead and figure out how to bake them for myself. Not an ingredient or a cuisine, but childish necessity. And after that, perhaps when I first realized that adding brown sugar to my curries made them hotter, not sweeter. Actually, your post on tasting spices individually to really get to know them helped me quite a lot. Oh, gosh, I don’t know. More than anything, it was probably the moment I first decided as a kid that if Mom wasn’t going to bake sweets for me, I would have to go ahead and figure out how to bake them for myself. Not an ingredient or a cuisine, but childish necessity.

And after that, perhaps when I first realized that adding brown sugar to my curries made them hotter, not sweeter.

Actually, your post on tasting spices individually to really get to know them helped me quite a lot.

]]> By: Linda http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/07/23/the-butterfly-effect-meme/#comment-5263 Linda Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:39:02 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=553#comment-5263 My aha moment was my first taste of Chinese food. I actually made it all of the way to college without having it. When my roommate took me out to a Chinese restaurant and I tasted my first shrimp dish, I was in heaven. I had had Mexican food growing up but our tiny town didn't have any Chinese. It still remains one of my favorite foods. I introduced my nieces to it and they still talk about how good it was. My aha moment was my first taste of Chinese food. I actually made it all of the way to college without having it. When my roommate took me out to a Chinese restaurant and I tasted my first shrimp dish, I was in heaven. I had had Mexican food growing up but our tiny town didn’t have any Chinese. It still remains one of my favorite foods. I introduced my nieces to it and they still talk about how good it was.

]]> By: Diane http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2006/07/23/the-butterfly-effect-meme/#comment-5260 Diane Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:02:53 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/?p=553#comment-5260 Barbara: I am about your age, and have fond memories of watching Julia in the early days on PBS. She is indeed a marvel - I am in awe of her - Saint Julia indeed. The butterlfy momemnt/item for me was simple salt - before taking Thai and Indian classes I cooked from scratch all the time, but never, ever used salt. My dad has somewhat high blood pressure and we didn't grow up using it at all. But the aha moment was a flavor balancing exercise in one of my Thai classes - learning salt doesn't just make things salty. It can make them more hot, or sweet, or "balanced". Then seeing my Indian cooking teacher thowin lots of salt, while assuring us that for unprocessed food it needed it - and every single time finding that it made it taste indefinably "better". I am not one to press salt on those with serious health issues. But for those of us who cook from scratch, it's absolutely needed. Now I salt to taste and feel - knowing how muchg salt "feels" right in the fingers for various dishes. Barbara: I am about your age, and have fond memories of watching Julia in the early days on PBS. She is indeed a marvel – I am in awe of her – Saint Julia indeed.

The butterlfy momemnt/item for me was simple salt – before taking Thai and Indian classes I cooked from scratch all the time, but never, ever used salt. My dad has somewhat high blood pressure and we didn’t grow up using it at all. But the aha moment was a flavor balancing exercise in one of my Thai classes – learning salt doesn’t just make things salty. It can make them more hot, or sweet, or “balanced”. Then seeing my Indian cooking teacher thowin lots of salt, while assuring us that for unprocessed food it needed it – and every single time finding that it made it taste indefinably “better”. I am not one to press salt on those with serious health issues. But for those of us who cook from scratch, it’s absolutely needed. Now I salt to taste and feel – knowing how muchg salt “feels” right in the fingers for various dishes.

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