Culinary Education

This is a class blog for culinary classes taught by Dr. Jonathan Deutsch.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

random, virtually useless information

Comparing toilet water with ice at fast food restaurants:

http://www.tampabays10.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=25442



A little tidbit on aphrodisiac's I got in an email from dailytip@idealbite.com:

"Whale vomit, which once cost twice as much as gold, was believed by Arabs to be an intense aphrodisiac. It has been scientifically proven… for male rats, that is. "

3 Comments:

At 8:30 PM, Blogger roux42 said...

Money is also an aphrodisiac...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1553872.htm

 
At 9:24 PM, Blogger Maria Lucia said...

I just heard about that somewhere else too...not this particular instance, but the use of ambergris in perfumes...it's going to drive me crazy now figuring out where I saw it....anyway.

 
At 10:11 PM, Blogger roux42 said...

I remember learning about it as kid in grade school. Pretty funny I remember that but not how to do long division.

http://www.ambergris.co.nz/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris

 

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