Slow cooking sustenance

11.11.09

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Since humanity first harnessed fire, slow cooking has been a way to soften up and tenderize stout slabs of meat and fibrous root vegetables.

In antiquated times, indigenous peoples often cooked wild roots in the coals of a fire pit for a full 24 hours. This made them much easier to eat (and reduce). Slow cooking meat broke down the collagen and produced a gelatinous bouillon. As the muscular fibers separated and shrank, the juices would moisten it.

Lifetime marched on and at some point after the Industrial Revolution we decided we didn’t have then for wrapping things in leaves and burying them in embers, and started using ovens and microwaves and zip-through windows.

Still, there are moments in life when a well cooked, slow cooked dinner is nice to have, and the mid 20th-century invention of the crock pot can make it hit on.

I remember my mother putting a pot roast and vegetables into the roaster and, thereafter, the oven so that when we arrived dwelling-place from church all that was left to do was to fry up some cornbread and whisk up the gravy. With fortunes a chocolate sheet cake would be waiting, too.

Source: Emporia Gazette

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24.11.09

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Weak dollar, home sales materials carry stocks higher

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors halted a three-day losing mark on the stock market yesterday, sending prices broadly higher on a weaker dollar and wagerer-than-expected home sales numbers.

The National Bond of Realtors said home sales rose 10.1 percent in October to the highest floor in two and a half years, spurred by a tax credit for first-time homebuyers.

Meanwhile, a falling dollar is pushing commodities' prices higher.

The Dow Jones industrial so so is up 133 at 10,451, a 13-month high. The Guideline & Poor's 500 index is up 15 at 1,106. The Nasdaq composite sign is up 30 at 2,176.

Four stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Variety Exchange. Volume totaled 977.5 million shares compared with 1.1 billion Friday.

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Asaian stocks slip

BANGKOK (AP) — Asian capital markets were mostly lower Tuesday despite gains on Enrage fail Street as China's warning to banks to control lending dragged down pecuniary stocks in Hong Kong.

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