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Skriven 2015-12-07 11:31:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: that's fancy 583
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-30-15  14:45 <=-

 >  ML> I don't know - if he gave you opened foie gras ...
 > He'd opened it for himself... and then was unexpectedly not there for
 > the last couple of days, which were also rather suddenly the last couple
 > of days... ;)  He probably expected me to eat it faster...  ;)
 ML> As you might have done well to!

Hindsight's 50-50...  (G)
 
 >  ML> Once opened, you would eat ordinary liverwurst within
 >  ML> just a few days; one ought to treat foie gras at
 >  ML> least that gingerly.
 > Hmmm...  I think we've kept ordinary liverwurst longer than that once
 > open, too...  :)
 ML> Well, don't do it again. One has to respect even the
 ML> Jones brand liverwurst.

We just don't go through things that quickly... Although, once I finally
did get around to the foie gras, I did finish off the tube in the one
sitting, a slice at a time... it obviously needed finishing... ;)

 >  ML> Pretty darn slim. I see them once in a while at Pike 
 >  ML> Place Market, of Oregon origin, but I have to put my
 >  ML> nose right up to them to get any aroma at all, whereas
 >  ML> with real ones I can smell them down the block (well,
 >  ML> not any more, but probably 50 feet away) - and pigs
 >  ML> can do much better.
 > Is freshness part of that...?
 ML> Yeah, but all those other things we've talked about 
 ML> are factors. It is also said, I'm not sure if reported
 ML> here, that the black ones aren't ready until Christmas, 
 ML> so if you get them before then, there's something wrong
 ML> - species, ripeness, whatever.

Probably species, around here... ;)

 ML> My conductor friend Bob's daughter was on a culinary-
 ML> themed holiday sponsored by a famous Italian restaurant.
 ML> One of the activities was a truffle hunt, and she found
 ML> one that was about the size of a rabbit. I said, wow,
 ML> that must have paid for the whole trip, but no, the
 ML> terms stated that all the scavengings belonged to the
 ML> tour organizer. Pooh.

That wasn't any fair...  all she got was bragging rights...?

 >  ML> Not that likely, I think, liking the far highlands
 >  ML> of Scotland much better than the cities.
 > Isle of Bute...?  That's where he's started his latest truffle farm...
 ML> If there is the proper combination of cold but not
 ML> freezing winter, oak trees, and the appropriate
 ML> species, it may be possible, but I won't believe
 ML> until I taste. And won't likely bother to go out
 ML> there and do the research.

Something to keep in mind, should you happen to be in the area,
perhaps...?   ;)

 >  ML> It's more the species than the provenance. There are
 >  ML> plenty of bad truffles out of France.
 > Ah...  ok...
 ML> Bad truffles: everywhere, including France and Italy.
 ML> Good truffles: nowhere except France and Italy and 
 ML> then only sometimes.

I think I'll stick with chocolate truffles, then...  (G)

 >  ML> April 6-11 is a possibility, or sometime in the
 >  ML> first half of May.
 > April looks promising at the moment...  :)  First half of May so far is
 > open, too, although the first weekend has a possible conflict...
 ML> I have a doctor appointment on the 12th and rehearsal on
 ML> the 13th (or vice versa, I forget - there's the danger
 ML> I'll show up at the hospital with a violin). Faure Wreck,
 ML> the solo part.

Regular concert or special occasion...?  That's a piece I don't tire of
hearing... :)   Once I sang the tenor part as part of a "pick-up"
choir... Choir director at one church was the husband of an RPO horn
player that worshipped at our church, and he needed more singers to fill
out the choir.  That was an enjoyable occasion...  :)

ttyl     neb

... I'm of the faction that believes mushroom sandwiches are not burgers

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