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On 2010-03-24, Christine Dabney > wrote:

> On No Reservations last night, Bourdain watched a woman from Provence
> make aioli in one.


Julia C liked to make her aioli in a big ol' brass M&P she had.
Sucker was huge! Looked like it held a quart and weighed as much as
one of these bigger Thai granite M&Ps. I think she used if more for
sentimental reasons than anything practical, it being a gift as I
recall.

nb