"Exotic" foods (Was RE: fpgroups.com: A raw chat room is now available)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bruce Easton (Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:21:42 -0400):
[...]
> Well, I was watching some travel documentary show recently and
> they had some dessert that used rotten fish eggs that had been buried,
> so I guess there is some middle ground even in Eskimo land.
[...]

Or you could use some nam pla, which is a Thai fish sauce.  As I
understand it, the "real" stuff is made by taking some fish (such
as anchovies), salting them, and fermenting them for a year.  You
then squeeze the liquid out, and that's the sauce.

I used some bottled stuff (which is probably made by taking several
shortcuts) several years ago (I forget what I was cooking), and it
made the kitchen smell like old sweaty gym socks.  Fortunately, the
smell did dissipate after a few minutes.

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