On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:46:29 -0700, graham > wrote:

> On 25/01/2016 9:24 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:55:24 -0800 (PST), Gregory Morrow
> > > wrot.e:
> >
> >> Anyways, I went in looking for a bottle of their "$2.99 Chuck", but left with something two dollars more...
> >>
> > If you were looking for a cooking wine, you wasted your money. If you
> > plan to drink it, you made a wise choice.
> >
> One is supposed to use the same wine for both drinking with and cooking
> in that dish:-)

Wake up. You're Canadian by way of Britain and you're taking it far
too literally. Julia was an American talking to other Americans who
were still shaking off Puritanism and Prohibition... she was referring
to cooking wine vs. drinking wine.

Cooking wine is a thin, cheap base wine to which salt and food
coloring have been added. At the grocery store, it is found in the
same section as vinegar, not in the liquor department. Julia was
simply telling people not to cook with a salty wine they can't drink.

> I had a cookbook that had a recipe for Duck Margaux. That is a duck
> casserole where the cooking wine was a whole bottle of Chateau Margaux.
> That wine often goes for around $1000 per bottle!!

Might as well a flush wine like that down the toilet.

> I let that book go with my ex when we split:-)
> Graham

Good move.

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sf