On 5/17/2010 1:38 PM, Janet Baraclough wrote:
> The >
> from > contains these words:
>
>> On 5/17/2010 9:40 AM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
>>> dsi1 wrote:
>>>> Nomen Nescio wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why call a dutch oven a dutch oven? I'm sure that many other
>>>>> cultures/nations have been using that idea ever since iron was
>>>>> cast.
>>>
>>> The manufacturing process was invented by the Dutch according to Alton
>>> Brown on a Good Eats episode.
>
>> That's interesting. I thought they only invented alkali-processed cocoa.
>
> other Dutch inventions
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_i...nd_discoveries
> * 1.1 The microscope
> * 1.2 The telescope
> * 1.3 The pendulum clock
> * 1.4 The electrocardiograph
> * 1.5 The phase contrast microscope
> * 1.6 The compact disc
> * 1.7 The sawmill
> * 1.8 The road-rule enforcement camera
> * 1.9 The leyden jar
> * 1.10 The pyrometer
> * 1.11 The submarine
> * 1.12 The artificial kidney
>
> Janet

Thanks for the link. Interesting - they mention speed cams but not dutch
cocoa. :-)