Trips with a fun food theme
Feb 11, 2015 | 3:08 pm
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What accounts for this? I was in the US last week and had milk which I thought had gone bad. I looked at the container and the date was in the future. Turns out the milk hadn't turned at all, it simply tastes like crap compared to what I normally drink here in the UK.
Feb 12, 2015 | 7:33 pm
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I've done BBQ trips to Austin which are always a good time (even if I don't get the hype around Big Red).
Feb 12, 2015 | 9:28 pm
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Then again, the French have this morbid obsession with UHT milk which is absolutely disgusting. So who knows!
Feb 12, 2015 | 9:45 pm
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While I don't want to defend American cheese, I take some offense to the broadness of that statement. In many places, Americans care dearly about sourcing, and you can get very high quality cow/goat/sheep milk. Pasteurization could be one thing, but I think the diet is key. Here in California, our milk varies significantly in flavor from winter to summer because we have a Mediterranean climate with no rain in summer. Our eggs also undergo a change - chlorophyll from the green grass makes the yolks much more orange in the winter and spring, and then they gradually get more yellow over the course of summer.