10,000 years 🗿
Improve your food vocabulary and save a trip to the dentist!
Good morning. Here are two words you can use in conversation that will a) make you appear smart and b) have people probably not understand you. Those words are “concasse” and “mesclun”.
What do they mean? Concasse is defined as “to roughly chop food by peeling, seeding, and chopping to make it ready to be served with other ingredients”. And mesclun is a “salad consisting of tender mixed greens such as lettuce, arugula, and chicory, herbs, and edible flowers”. See if you can slip these into a sentence today. Let us know how they were received.
If you love learning the food lingo, we would love to chat more with you! This holiday season, we are planning to host some live cooking sessions. Let us know if you’d like to hangout.
In the food world
Passing the hierloom
An “artist” who chronicles his bizarre projects on TikTok has gone viral thanks to his latest stunt: burying a packet of Flamin' Hot Cheetos at an undisclosed location in a 3,000-pound concrete sarcophagus with the message “Historical artifact buried below. Do not open for 10,000 years. Year buried 2022”. The project took about four months to complete and cost about the price of Cheetos in 10,000 years — $1,250.
🥃 Arkansas mayhem
Tyson Foods CFO John Tyson, who is also the son of Tyson's chairman and great-grandson of its founder, was arrested this weekend for allegedly being so intoxicated that he broke into a stranger’s house and fell asleep in her bed. Coincidentally, this happened in the same county where Beyond Meat’s ex-COO was arrested for allegedly biting someone’s nose in September.
🐔 Three day work week!
While tech companies have gone ballistic on the WFH lately and calling their workers back to the office, Chick-fil-A is trying something quite different. A three-day workweek! Recently Chick-fil-A in Miami, FL posted a job opening that requires the candidates to run the fryer only three days a week. Not to be confused as a part-time gig, this position will still be 40 hrs a week but three longer 14 hr shifts instead of a traditional 8 hr work day. Sounds finger-lickin' good and we are lovin’ it!
A healthy mouth
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Last week I received the dreaded call. And it wasn’t Zuck telling me that I was out of a job. It was from my dentist’s office saying the scariest six words in the English language — “your appointment is confirmed for tomorrow”. Now anyone who has had a root canal knows that a trip to the dentist isn’t really a spa day. But in my case, it was long overdue.
Begrudgingly, I made way to the — mixture of wintergreen flavored toothpaste and bleach smelling — office and was taken in for examination. The process started off with my teeth getting papped from a gazillion angles till a 3D image appeared in front of a screen (which turns out isn’t for Netflix viewing), highlighting their sorry state… More so when compared to all the perfect smiles staring at me from the wall frames.
Apparently I needed a deep cleaning and some fillings — a process taking 2 sessions and required numbing (for good reason!). Overall, I believe that I have a decent pain threshold, but when it comes to dental work, I am as sensitive as a toddler watching the ending of Marley and Me. The deep cleaning was like the construction work on an Interstate with the drilling, excavating, pothole cavity filling and smoothening.
While I walked out with my free toothbrush and toothpaste, I thought to myself if there were any foods that could keep my teeth and gums healthy. Here are some of the findings:
Tips for a healthy mouth
Fiber-rich fruits and vegetables. To keep your gums clean.
Green and black teas. To kill or hold back plaque bacteria.
Eat sugary foods with meals: Your mouth makes more saliva during meals. Eating desserts with your meal (not to be confused for making it your meal) helps to reduce the effect of acid production and rinse pieces of food from the mouth.
Drink more water: Probably the cure for most problems from glowing skin to headaches. Drinking fluoridated water can help prevent tooth decay.
Quiz
It’s time for something less painful! Here are some dental puzzles that will lighten up your next trip to the dentist. The feeling of getting all of them correct is compared to exaggerating your flossing habits to your dentist and them completely buying it.
What do you call a dentist who does not like tea?
What does the best performing dentist get at the end of the year?
Why did the dentist and manicurist break up?
What are dental X-rays called?
What did the lawyer demand before the dentist worked on him?
*Answers at the bottom.
Convenience beats bud🍺
For the first time in US history, liquor sales are on the verge of surpassing beer. The slow distillation finally outran the beer belly this year as beer sales grew only by 1% as compared to whiskey and mezcal sales which grew by 7% and 30% respectively.
Convenience, convenience and convenience!
Approachable: Earlier liquor cocktails could only be consumed at bars. Now, with a large number of pre-made cocktails available in stores, it is much easier getting that old fashioned without tipping a tenner.
Portable: There is a flood of cocktail options available in ready to go cans making them an equal candidate for the beach, picnic and specially stadiums where fewer bathroom breaks are crucial.
Delivery: The ubiquity of beer isn’t really an advantage anymore. It is now legal to get alcohol delivered to your home, reflected by the majority of orders on apps such as Grizzly being liquor and not beer.
Cooking Tips
While cutting cherry tomatoes, place them between the tops of two to-go containers. Go all fruit ninja and pass a knife through the lids for perfect halves.
To easily scape burnt-on food off the pans, don’t burn food!! But if you do, first add a couple of drops of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of pan. Then bring to a boil on stovetop.
If a recipe requires both oil and honey, measure the oil first, followed by the honey. This way honey will slide out easily.
Did you know?
Nearly all bananas are like stormtroopers — they are perfect clones of each other and originate from one single plant in south east Asia.
Cashews are not actually nuts. They are seeds that grow out of the bottom of the cashew apple (which is not an apple… fml!!), which is also edible.
The FDA allows 400 insect fragments per 50gm of ground cinnamon.
Cooking through pain
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This week we are swapping out the conventional recipes for something different — a plating inspo! This is a dish I made last year when I came down with a bad toothache and had to get a root canal… the worst! In all the pain, I did the only thing I could to make it pass by quicker — COOK!
This plate of paneer tikkas marinated in a homemade garlic butter and crusted with my favorite potato chips (because I could not bite into them) along with a red chilly and tomato “blood” sauce, accurately reflected my mood. Feel free to experiment with your own marination and sauce. You won’t be arrested if your hand prints are found at this crime scene.
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Answers
Denis
A plaque
They fought tooth and nail
Tooth-pic
A retainer