Chocolate, Maple, Sweet Almond And You

Maple syrup is a perfect sweetener, others are honey, blackstrap molasses, date molasses, grape molasses, extracts from the stevia plant and agave syrup. Maple syrup is graded from the best, AA through B. AA is pure, mild, light amber, it gets darker the lesser the grade which is why most of what you see in the store is dark amber Grade B. A fine point about maple syrup is that it does not freeze, so if you want to keep it indefinitely then after opening store it in the freezer. Maple syrup lasts two years unopened on the shelf, one year opened in the refrigerator and forever in the freezer. How’s that for a fantastic natural sweet flavor? Maple acts as a complement not as a puddle of syrup for our pork. All too often an inexperienced cook will overuse maple syrup (four times sweeter than sugar) on salmon and wild game dishes and then it literally leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

To turn the other cheek means to hold your ground, do not give in to oppression

No matter what they do we remain One country,
Hear the distant pipes playing Come Out Americans,
Give me freedom over Broad and Wall,
Freedom over the lies of Savings and Trust,
And what the hell you say? No one did a thing
When armed Policemen came to take aim on each other,
They took aim on Americans who dared to say
That our leaders have gone wrong, who dared to say No!
To being round up and told to go away, SWAT teams,
So where are you all now who say we are free,
Where are you all now who still have lips to sing
Who have the power but set it aside for another day,
And I know what you think, you have a full belly,
A rebellion took place while you were eating,
We lost the war for American independence.
We are own oppression. Culturally, physically
And in our hearts we found the cash cows won,
We found the guns were in our own hands
And at that moment America died,
A new fascism rose up out of the struggle that never was.


About

The real must be made ideal, and the ideal must be made real. (Hegel)

This is all about poetry, food and philosophy.

Previous restaurants Chef Lamar’s Iron Grill, East West Bistro, Windchimes,

St. Orres, Mansion and Abbey, Old Town Inn.

My life is a Romance. It is a romance with food.

There are people that I love, you know who you are, you see yourself in these words, in the foods

and in this pursuit of beauty and the delicious. Delicious food, yeah!

These posted articles, or blogs, have been previously published or are to be published in monthly

magazines Southern Distinction, Atlanta Food & Beer and Atlanta Cuisine. The poetry is all over the country in

University and underground press publications. Themes are the South, World Cuisine, my life

in the thrill of living on each coast and the love of Asian culture, Haute Cuisine, Latin culinary perspectives,

Southern culture, modern poetry  and novels, Continental Philosophy,

music from Gypsy Baroque to Mahler, Manchester Sound, Southern rock and country blues

to pure rock. Nothing in the world is created without passion.

“Novalis: The World must be made Romantic.”

And that is what this is all about, “Ginger, Lily And Sweet Fire: A Romance With Food”;

a book being published by the rascally RD Armstrong and Lummox Press.

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