> If one of the ingredients is "a mystery" to you, you're unlikely to
>already have it in your home kitchen, ready to cook with..

Unless it's a different name for something you DO have in your kitchen.

Not an ingredient, but... When I first came to the Twin Cities, I had
difficulty in ordering tea in restaurants. The waitronette would ask
what kind of tea I wanted, and would not understand "regular tea."
Eventually, I learned that I needed to ask for "black tea."

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Dan Goodman
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