Word: flavorfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eastern sensibilities -- specifically the delicate seasonings of Japan -- also float through Elizabeth Andoh's An Ocean of Flavor (Morrow; $20.95). Andoh, an American who is married to a Japanese and has spent many years in Japan, makes a fine guide to that country's methods of enhancing the flavor of seafood without obliterating it. She explains as well the techniques of frying, poaching, grilling and cutting raw fish for the right textural contrasts and warns about pollutants and parasites. Fried soft-shell crabs in a spicy sauce, cold poached tilefish with mustard-miso sauce and fiddlehead ferns, and a careful...
...taste test. East and West Coast eggs cooked identically and tasted the same in such preparations as scrambled eggs and omelets, in which whites and yolks were blended. The yolks made equally good mayonnaise when - whipped with salad oil. However, there was a mild difference in flavor in boiled, poached and fried preparations in which cooked yolks and whites remained separate. The East Coast yolks had an airier, dairy taste -- perhaps because they were a bit fresher and had not traveled...
...precious. Fortunately, Pavic's imagination is equal to the task. He peoples his history of the history of the Khazars with vampires, religious ascetics, devils, golems, star-crossed lovers and a Turkish pasha who makes love only to the dying. Exotic details or metaphors not only impart a flavor of strangeness to the book, but also send a reader scurrying back and forth through the pages, trying to remember where he has come across a hand with two thumbs, a grave shaped like a goat or a fruit that resembles a live fish...
Bowl games are nice. They have flavor and festivity. They also have great names, if you're a fruit lover. But they leave too many questions unanswered, the principle one being-which is the best college foot-ball team...
...Orange flavor beef ($9.50) is different enough from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...