In my meat universe, a great piece of beef is just that: A Great Piece of Meat. It needs a heavy char, a rare, warm-to-the-touch inside, and little else. One over-condiments a product that is not of high quality. A superior piece of beef, Black Angus, dry-aged, or Certified Prime, needs no doctoring, just an attentive grillmaster. Why are so many consumers now saying, “hold the pepper”? Why did pepper become such a major flavor profiler whether it is with top-quality meats or sushi-grade tuna?
Both those fine foods need little outside interference. It goes back to purchasing quality, preparing it simply, and not ruining it by fussing with unnecessary seasonings.
Just yesterday attention was on the salt crisis: How we are oversalting everything and our health is paying for using too much of this seasoning. Black pepper has been making the research rounds as a positive, but encrusting a steak with pepper (unless you ordered steak au poivre) is a negative in my book. It can overpower a food and make the taste get lost under its weight. Plenty of people like salted and peppered food. I am a believer in top quality products that need little extra attention. If the quality is good, you have nothing to hide. Inferior cuts of beef will take more than salt and pepper to solve.
Hold the pepper, bring on the 12 oz beauty. I can handle it.
OK, I promise to take some home for lunch tomorrow.
Who made pepper King, anyway?
The latest pomegranate research holds significant promise for staving off breast cancer. A study from California’s City of Hope National Medical Center found that the pomegranate contains chemicals that help reduce the risk for women in developing hormone-related breast cancers. The researchers quickly point out that further study is necessary, and the fruit needs to be tested for its potency as a stand-alone product and then compared to its value as an add-on to other beverages and snacks.
No, you do not have to give up your energy bars: There are plenty of choices that are G-F and let you rack up the bites without having to stand idly by while everyone else is doing the chomp. This is good news fort the humble date, a fruit that has seen its popularity wane but has been elevated by its prominence in the new lineup of bars.
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Here are some of the “Gluten-Sensitive” items:
We can’t be fighting bacteria in our food preparation if products are sneaking through the system without proper inspections.