"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2009-10-08, Giusi > wrote:
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>> 1. Broiling is a second rate way of making bruschetta.
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> What, pray tell, is the first rate way?
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> nb

You brown the bread in a pan or grill on the stove. Bruschetta has been
round longer than broilers

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 23:01:28 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
wrote:

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>"notbob" > wrote in message
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>> On 2009-10-08, Giusi > wrote:
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>>> 1. Broiling is a second rate way of making bruschetta.
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>> What, pray tell, is the first rate way?
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>> nb
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>You brown the bread in a pan or grill on the stove. Bruschetta has been
>round longer than broilers
>
Broiling means to cook with direct flame... broiling is the oldest
form of cooking... folks have been broiling since long before the
invention of the pot/pan. Hanging a hunk of meat on the end of a
stick over an open fire is broiling. Cooking on an outdoor grill is
broiling. Folks have been broiling since long, LONG before there was
bread. But folks have been broiling/toasting bread long before there
were appliances.

Bruschetta is what to do with the glut of picked over/left over bread
at restaurants, Italian eateries especially, since it's customery that
they serve excessive bread with every meal... order a pizza and still
the big basket of bread arrives... don't for one second think your
local guido joint tosses patron's left over bread in the trash... they
turn it into crumbs for breading cutlets, eggplant, and filling out
meataballes. They have so much left over bread that's cleared off
tables that the two Italian restaurants near me will give me all I
want to feed critters anytime I ask... they are supposed to toss it in
the dumpster out back but they don't, instead it's held in the same
large corrogated cartons the bread arrived in from the bakery... it's
made into brushetta and garlic bread. All restaurants do this. Even
the bread crumbs you buy at the market in those cardboard cylinders is
made from bread swept up at commercial bakeries... do yoose really
think they bake bread for the explicit purpose of making into
crumbs... yoose believe that I have a bridge yoose wanna buy. Crumbs
is another use for my meat grinder... I don't want mystery crumbs. Do
you relize that buying packaged bread crumbs is a recent innovation,
started like 50 years ago... back than all homemakers made ther own
crumbs... usta bring their own stale bread to the butcher shop too, to
push the last of the meat through... back then there was no preground
mystery meat. Yoose do realize there was a time before canned dog
food, not all that long ago.... what folks feed their pets is cleaner
than preground.