"Jessica V." wrote:
>
> Kate Connally wrote:
>
> > I was just going through some of my cookbooks looking
> > for interesting recipes to try. I have this small
> > paperback book with New Orleans recipes. Almost every
> > one of them calls for msg!!! I haven't seen msg
> > called for in recipes for ages and ages. I think the
> > 70's were the msg era. That must be when this book
> > was published. I'll have to check the publication date
> > when I get home. I was just having this really weird
> > deja vu feeling while I was thumbing through the recipes.
> >
> > Kate
> >
>
> I found the same thing in a CB of Cajun Cuisine recently. Copyright
> 1979. More oddly I actually saw MSG in the Spanish foods section of the
> local grocery store last week. I don't think I'd ever seen it outside
> of the drums of the stuff a Chinese restaurant here used to have.
>
> Jessica

I think you can still buy it in supermarkets in the
spice section. Seems to me I noticed it there not too
long ago. But I buy all my spices at the bulk foods
store these days at way lower prices so I haven't
looked lately at the supermarket stuff.

Kate

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Kate Connally
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