Ferran Adria and Heston Blumenthal are friends and have collaborated in the past. They all hang out with Herve This and try to come up with ways to kick your culinary ass.

The voice of the "Plutocratic Kleptocracy" known as the US government. You are kidding yourself if you think the USA is a Democracy. No matter what party is in charge.

>>> Actually, the USA is a Republic w/ a representative democracy. BTW nice work with the 2-dollar words. Usually the beret-wearers say "plutocratic oligarchy."

QM you're talking that polarised shit again.

>>> PolariZed? Why? Because I choose a side and have values? The answer is Yes. I wonder if you'll ever do the same. If you're a bloody "--ist" of any kind, just say so.

By the way, how is that Bush/Cheney small government going?

>>> Hey I'm still for small government as are all real conservatives. Bush pissed off a lot of conservatives with his liberal spending and immigration stances. We have to win the Iraq war almost singlehandedly cause Europe is too busy kissing the asses of Muslims, so yeah, we've had to hit the ATM more than we'd like. You'd think American liberals would be joyous Bush spends like one of them, but they're never joyous about anything, they thrive on misery.

What next QM? Weimar backstab after the war in Iraq cascades to shit?

>>> What are YOU going to do when we WIN the Iraq war? We're winning it now, why do you think your uh, "non-liberal" media is so silent?

These motherfuckers at Faux News should be thrown into jail for the rest of their lives... and they deserve worse than that for what they do on a daily basis.

>>> More of that liberal "free speech for all" I see. Thank God you guys are out of power, even with a majority in Congress, you're hated.

This is nothing short of ideological sabotage on a national level. The end result is people like QM- blithely ignorant, totally convinced that they are right and that their worldview is the only one which is acceptable (EVERYTHING else is just "libs").

>>> The "need to be right" is a deadly human disease. I would never claim to be right ALL the time, only 98%. I think the left, for all its moral relativism and nihilistic fervor, doesn't stand for jack shit and has no spine, and that's why they can't bear to hear anyone with a point of view.

Qauntum Mushroom - do you even realize how moronic your statement is? Was it sincere? Or do you know its bullshit, and say it anyways?

>>> Do you even realize how to spell?

Thats the question I've always wondered about dumbass neocons - do they know they are evil, or do they somehow think they are in the right on this?

>>> No need for insults, mamaluke. And how can you call anything or anyone evil? According to the left there IS no evil! Everything is relative! See, how can we tell a cannibal his culinary choices are wrong? That would be judgmental!

now let's compare the two ideologies' media footprint:

Conservative bias...FOX News and talk radio (which is not news but mere commentary.

Mainstream Liberal Bias...New York Slimes, St. Petersburg Slimes, Washington Compost, San Fran Carbuncle, MS-DNC, CNN (Crescent News Network), ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, USA Hippie, Slime, Newsweak magazine, BankruptAir Amerikkka and 99% of Hollywood dreck.

The drive-by media no longer hide that they're a fifth column liberal propaganda machine, working and walking in lockstep for the 'Crats.

Libs had 50 years of unopposed 3-network bullshit. The party's over. ha ha ha ha.

Then you are missing out. He does a show called Good Eats on the Food Network, which is the perfect blend of cooking, culinary science, and anthropology lessons all in one entertaining half hour. It's cooking for geeks and it's brilliant.

He also moderates the American version of Iron Chef, which he does a good job at but in my opinion pales in comparison to the original Japanese version. And he also has another show called Feasting on Asphalt, where he takes a road trip and stops along culinary hot spots along the trail, but off the beaten bypass.

Ow, so awesome. I'm psyched for this movie and so is the rest of the kitchen. I hope that there will be lots of in-jokes for us cooks.

Remy- of course they mean remoulage, the second round of a stock- when you take your veal bones and make a second stock out of them, this stock is your remy, or remoulage.

August Gusto must be Auguste Escoffier, the father of haute cuisine, and his "book" of course refers to Le Guide Culinaire, often referred to as the escoffier. Truely a culinary bible, in more than one sense.

The use of the term "le plongeur" leads me to believe that this movie heavily relies on Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, but who knows. I've been meaning to read that book for years- maybe now is a good time, before this movie comes out.

Actually, I'm sure this is in Snopes. I found this while looking for names of pork worms:

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/porkcoke.html
(5/10/2004) Circulating alone for several years, this chain letter has recently been added to a collection of culinary caveats on 'unknown' hazards in instant noodles, satay and prawns. The present rumor builds on two staples of urban legendry: the impurity of pork and the acidic properties of Coca-Cola.

I noticed that too watching a while back. So funny.

Watching gourmet chefs making culinary masterpieces in less than an hour sure makes one crave a BigMac.

i use cornstarch frequently ... when making gravy, stew, etc ... i just didn't know it did THIS!!!

i can certainly hold my own in the culinary dept!

it's called Mandoo. Why would I eat seashell pastas with chopsticks? That just defies all logic regarding ethnic cultures and culinary arts

That's like trying to mate smoked salmon with sushi (yum!)

well WTF did he serve them? Looks like the crap I pull out of pumpkins before carving them. It's hilarious for the Culinary Dictator to ask someone if they are always going to be rude and interrupt him, he certainly knows what he is talking about.