Word: vinegars
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...Dressing: 1/3 cup apple cider or white wine vinegar 2 garlic cloves, peeled 2 shallots, peeled and diced 1 cup chopped parsley 1 cup chopped cilantro 2 tbsp honey 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp black pepper 1 pinch of ground cloves 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil 1/2 cup olive...
...tasting menu was $29--and Batali was soon feeding downtown artists, actors and, crucially, reporters. He became the most charismatic of the young New York City chefs--fun, funny, a little crude. There was something brash about his willingness to serve a just-picked strawberry drizzled with sweet balsamic vinegar rather than do something more complex and chef-ish like extruding a berry-vinegar solution into a foam. Great California chefs like Jeremiah Tower (for whom Batali briefly worked) and Alice Waters launched the American culinary revolution in the 1970s by trumpeting fresh ingredients above all. Twenty years later, Batali...
...whether it was getting mold off the edge of the bath or nail polish off the sheets, they've done it with products that cost next to nothing and were likely already in the kitchen cupboards. Lush's cleaning staples are the same ones everybody's great-grandmother used: vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, methylated spirits, detergent, glycerine, milk. Shoe polish on the carpet? Eucalyptus oil. Rusty pans? Bicarbonate of soda and cut potato. Musty clothes? Put tea bags in the wash...
...works, it's a real victory that you've done it yourself and it hasn't cost a thing." That frugal ingenuity is shared by many rural women, says Wendy Hucker, of the Pioneer Women's Hut museum at Tumbarumba, New South Wales: "People around here still use vinegar and newspaper to clean the windows, kerosene for getting grease marks off clothes, bar soap and cold water for grass stains." The "culture of capability," as Thomson calls it, was born of hardship. People had very little, so they had to be handy. Tips were exchanged with neighbors and passed from...
...fence, or the grandparent they never see. And a way to take creative control of at least the few square meters of the world they call home. When everything else looks like a mess, it's neat to know you can fix just about anything with a dash of vinegar and a sprinkle of bicarb soda...