Word: starching
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Ever since that summer at nerd camp, my taste buds and stomach have been on a quest to re-experience a near-perfectly balanced meal of vegetable, meat and starch in one dish. Specifically, my mission has been to discover and then savor the Platonic form of shepherd's pieness...
There, in St. George, S.C., my lunch consisted of the perfect combination of starch, meat, and vegetables--perfectly spiced with hot salsa. The meat was tender, the vegetables fresh, and the dough moist. And It was all in the shadow of the golden arches...
...list the ingredients here for fear of nauseating Crimson readers, but the important part reads like this: "...partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (contains one or more of: canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil), modified food starch..." Yes, Jon, absolutely no treife animal shortening...
...spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways of the world and propels her into the arms of a simpler, safer and younger admirer. The sense...
Since Stellar is based on simple starch, it can be marketed without obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The product is the first serious competitor to Nutrasweet's dairy-derived Simplesse, which simulates high-fat flavor and "mouth-feel" in the company's Simple Pleasures frozen dessert by mimicking the shape of fat particles...