<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088799672118088393</id><updated>2011-12-12T00:20:14.881-08:00</updated><category term='Recipe Finder'/><category term='Terrific Food'/><category term='Gourmet'/><category term='Hospital Food'/><category term='Food Prices And Shortages'/><title type='text'>Definition and Importance of Gourmet</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>thegourmet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989431457997176655</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088799672118088393.post-1415706671542266852</id><published>2008-06-12T23:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T23:53:17.287-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrific Food'/><title type='text'>Terrific food, cheaper checkout</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;That recipe, in brief: Borrow 50 cents, mix ground beef and mix it with whole-grain, bulk cereal and "wilted or withered" vegetables. Add water. Boil; simmer for three hours. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; "It it obvious to even the most optimistic that this Sludge, which should be like stiff, cold mush and a rather unpleasant murky brown-gray in color, is strictly for hunger," Fisher wrote. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Thankfully, we are not that hungry. Perhaps food prices will stabilize long before we are. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; While planning, shopping and cooking these three meals, I encountered or recollected common-sense lessons, real but with metaphorical echoes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Waste not, want not. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; Recycle. Corncobs add wonderful flavor to stock. Pasta water thins and rounds out pasta sauces. The salsa from last night's takeout Mexican dinner will perk up today's pot of beans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3088799672118088393-1415706671542266852?l=thegourmet123.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/feeds/1415706671542266852/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3088799672118088393&amp;postID=1415706671542266852' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/1415706671542266852'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/1415706671542266852'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/2008/06/terrific-food-cheaper-checkout.html' title='Terrific food, cheaper checkout'/><author><name>thegourmet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989431457997176655</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088799672118088393.post-8869109574923617013</id><published>2008-06-12T23:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T23:41:03.326-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Food Prices And Shortages'/><title type='text'>Food Prices And Shortages Surge: Let Them Eat Dirt?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Bangladesh, Egypt and India”to name a few”have all had violent and occasionally deadly food riots in recent months as failed crops, storms, gas prices and government corruption continue to cause food shortages. The ultra-rich in these countries are”as always”doing nothing. I won't debate the ethics of this, or whether or not they are morally obligated to help. But could they at least not do things like building the world's most expensive house, estimated at $2 billion, in the thick of it all?Marie Antoinette is famously misquoted as saying: Let them eat cake." It seems today's grande bourgeoisie has a different approach: â€œLet them eat dirt!" And in Haiti, that's just what they are doing.No longer able to afford staples like beans and rice, impoverished Haitians are increasingly reliant on mud cookies for sustenance”and I don't mean grandma's chocolate, walnut recipe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3088799672118088393-8869109574923617013?l=thegourmet123.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/feeds/8869109574923617013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3088799672118088393&amp;postID=8869109574923617013' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/8869109574923617013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/8869109574923617013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/2008/06/food-prices-and-shortages-surge-let.html' title='Food Prices And Shortages Surge: Let Them Eat Dirt?'/><author><name>thegourmet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989431457997176655</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088799672118088393.post-1785529048517333677</id><published>2008-06-12T23:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T23:13:50.370-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recipe Finder'/><title type='text'>Recipe Finder More peanut-flavored dishes round out mealtime</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;In "The New Food Lover's Companion," Sharon Tyler Herbst writes: "Peanuts are also called groundnuts (as well as earth nuts and, in the South, goobers or goober peas) because, after flowering, the plant bends down to the earth and buries its pods in the ground." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt; We offer the similar (and often-requested) African Peanut Soup recipe, a favorite at the Brushmark CafÃ© inside Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. On to requests: Marlene Demchuk wants some low-sodium recipes for salsa, garlic dill pickles and relish. Letitia Wilson wants to duplicate the yellow slaw served on hot barbecue sandwiches at the U Come Inn in the 1960s. Can anyone help? African Chicken and Sauce 1 frying chicken, cut up (or 1 lb. ground beef) 1/2 cup flour to coat chicken 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 2 cups stewed tomatoes 2 tbsp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3088799672118088393-1785529048517333677?l=thegourmet123.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/feeds/1785529048517333677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3088799672118088393&amp;postID=1785529048517333677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/1785529048517333677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/1785529048517333677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/2008/06/recipe-finder-more-peanut-flavored.html' title='Recipe Finder More peanut-flavored dishes round out mealtime'/><author><name>thegourmet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989431457997176655</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088799672118088393.post-4651148256772750127</id><published>2008-06-12T21:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T22:48:53.972-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hospital Food'/><title type='text'>Gourmet touch to hospital food</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;"Some recipes work, some don't. I also have to think about food safety, and what foods can keep hot and be served hot.'' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; She sometimes organises special days, such as Asian noodle day, where patients get a choice of beef, chicken and cashew, and tofu noodles, served in cardboard takeaway boxes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; However, despite all the exciting and even gourmet developments in the hospital kitchen, for many of the patients, simple is best. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; For patients who are very sick, small bland soft portions are preferred, and soup, scrambled eggs, peaches, mashed potato and gravy, and ice cream and jelly are the top choices. "They need to eat little amounts and often," says Dodunski. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; Older patients, or those who have been sick for some time, ntsGcan nte often come into hospital malnourished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3088799672118088393-4651148256772750127?l=thegourmet123.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/feeds/4651148256772750127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3088799672118088393&amp;postID=4651148256772750127' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/4651148256772750127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/4651148256772750127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/2008/06/gourmet-touch-to-hospital-food.html' title='Gourmet touch to hospital food'/><author><name>thegourmet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989431457997176655</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3088799672118088393.post-8128519522088915160</id><published>2008-05-20T00:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T22:33:20.749-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gourmet'/><title type='text'>An Introduction To Gourmet Coffee</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_92u7mSrUeJA/SDKAYHskcmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/bceFcGQF9RY/s1600-h/italian_gourmet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 277px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_92u7mSrUeJA/SDKAYHskcmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/bceFcGQF9RY/s320/italian_gourmet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202361671437546082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Over five hundred billion cups of coffee are dog-tired each year symmetry sensible the infinitely established grit on this earth. For centuries, this aromatic, spirit-lifting grub has been the beverage to serve at any and all events. Many board meetings and friendships have thrived over a cup of coffee. Extracted from the seed of cherries growing on coffee trees, coffee is grown extensively in fifty-three countries across the equator.&lt;/span&gt;  Specialty gourmet coffee is exorbitantly received among coffee drinkers today. As a principle of fact, statistic loom that bodily is one of the fastest maturation food retailers netting approximately $8.5 billion a year. People enjoy the taste of the sophisticated beans used in the making of this delightful gourmet drink.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The beans are grown at very high altitudes on Arabic trees and feed on volcanic ash. A cool climate and lots of moisture result in a high quality bean group. The soil the beans are grown in produces the very distinct flavors of the gourmet beans. Gourmet coffee has a more balanced flavor and richer taste than the standard mass-produced coffee. The beans go through a rigorous process of certification that is very strict to help keep the quality high. To help keep standards high, the Specialty Coffee Association of American was created in 1982, for the specialty coffee trade.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;You incumbency jewel gourmet coffee drag conspicuously grocery stores, racket shops, restaurants and coffee shops.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;If you are a rightful connoisseur, you might compare gourmet coffee to a wonderful bottle of wine.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Gourmet Coffee provides measureless message on Gourmet Coffee, Gourmet Coffee Beans, Gourmet Flavored Coffee, Decaf Gourmet Coffee again more. Gourmet Coffee is affiliated with Gourmet Coffee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3088799672118088393-8128519522088915160?l=thegourmet123.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/feeds/8128519522088915160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3088799672118088393&amp;postID=8128519522088915160' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/8128519522088915160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3088799672118088393/posts/default/8128519522088915160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegourmet123.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-gourmet-coffee.html' title='An Introduction To Gourmet Coffee'/><author><name>thegourmet</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02989431457997176655</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_92u7mSrUeJA/SDKAYHskcmI/AAAAAAAAAAM/bceFcGQF9RY/s72-c/italian_gourmet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
