On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:47:56 -0700, JL > wrote:

> Gorio wrote:
>
> > At my local mega food store yesterday I saw they had Kikko rice wine
> > vinegar for 50 cents per bottle with a little coupon on the bottle. Keep
> > an eye out. If you make Thai sweet chili sauce; it's the shizzle. Gotta
> > use RW vinegar, though. I've tried it with several different vinegars
> > and , you need rice wine vinegar to make it.
>
>
> I wonder if that is any relation to the Japanese "mirin" i hear such
> good things about?

Mirin is not rice wine vinegar. It's more like sake... drinkable.
http://vegetarian.lovetoknow.com/What_Is_Mirin

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Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.