various thoughts on food
Julie's coming over tonight and we're making dinner together. She's going to lend me her experience and show me the right way to make risotto. We're planning on using a recipe for risotto from Epicurious as a template. I'm used to being the font of trivia and odd information in a relationship but that isn't the case here. Julie has mentioned so many things that I'd never heard of before in the two brief weeks that we've been dating that I'm starting to believe that she just makes things up! A case in point happened last night while talking on the phone. Julie said that in the past certain people, referred to as mellified men , had diets composed of only honey so that after they die, other people could eat them. Ewwww! Here's a little bit of the Wiki article on it: ...it says in Arabia there are men 70 to 80 years old who are willing to give their bodies to save others. The subject does not eat food, he only bathes and partakes of honey. After ...