Zwei Fat Chicks

Ep 32 - The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England!

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The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England is a book we discovered at the Orillia Library.  We loved it so much we bought a copy, and felt it needed it's own ZFC show to spread the word about how great a book it is!  We are going to look into the copyright information (so far it looks like it has not been renewed and has fallen into Public Domain), so we are also going to work on creating an Audiobook version of it. Links of Interest:

• Add All Book Search and Price Comparison - http://openlibrary.org/b/OL5794571M/good_fare_and_cheer_of_old_England
• Buy GF&C of Old E Used on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X78APM/ref=cm_cr_thx_view
• Joan Parry Dutton's Library Thing Page - http://www.librarything.com/author/duttonjoanparry

James Keiller and Sons of Dundee Marmalade

• Keiller's: Sticky Success - http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/scotland/perth_tayside/
• Mrs. Keiller's Marmalade Recipe - http://www.scotsindependent.org/features/food/dundee_marmalade.htm

• Knob Hill Farms - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob_Hill_Farms
• Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Wererabbit - http://www.wandg.com/
• Slate - How Cost-Effective Is It To Make Homemade Pantry Staples? - http://www.slate.com/id/2216611/pagenum/all/
• Medieval Cooking Blog - Post Mondern Friday: Being Thrifty -http://medievalcooking.org/2009/05/15/post-modern-friday-being-thrifty/

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Ep 31 - Sheila's Birthday, Pete's Open Kitchen and Down with Gloves!

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In this episode, recorded on Sheila's birthday, we discuss a great Oshawa lunch spot called Pete's Open Kitchen and wax philosophical about cooks and protective gloves.

• Boxing Day - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day
• Pete's Open Kitchen (20 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa ON, 905-725-7383) - http://www.downtownoshawa.ca/businessdirectory.php?id=150
• Culinary Institute of America (CIA) - http://www.ciachef.edu/
• Down With Gloves by Sara Dickerman - http://www.slate.com/id/2127050/

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Ep 30 - Tracy's Birthday @ Sushi Mountain

The 19th was Tracy's birthday, so we decided to check out a sushi place that everyone had been telling us about. Sushi Mountain's lunch buffet was awesome! Links of Interest:

• Coffee Culture - http://www.coffeeculture.ca/canada/index.html
• Sushi Mountain (1540 Dundas St. E., Whitby ON) - http://www.sushimountain.com/
• Bamboo Blade Anime - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_Blade
• Chimes Ginger Chews - http://www.chimesgourmet.com/
• Hakutsuru Sake - http://www.hakutsuru-sake.com/top.html
• Lobster Sashimi Video (not for the squeamish) - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5427304492329724291
• Williams Chocolate (460 Hopkins Street, Whitby ON) - http://www.williamschocolate.com/

Fave Quotes

"It's all very well to have fast food, and you need it in this day and age, but now and again it's nice to do things sort of slowly and gradually." -- Clarissa Dickson Wright "I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding." -- Alton Brown "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." -- J. R. R. Tolkien "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." -- Julia Child "So, beer or wine? Ultimately, beer is good, wine is good and sometimes there's nothing like a good gin and tonic. Let's just not be beastly to one another, and let's be flexible in our drinking choices." -- Nicholas Pashley "'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers." -- Romeo and Juliet: act 4, scene 2 "The host had gone below to the cellar, and had brought up bottles of ruby, straw-coloured, and golden drinks, which had ripened long ago in lands where no fogs are, and had since lain slumbering in the shade. Sparkling and tingling after so long a nap, they pushed at their corks to help the corkscrew (like prisoners helping rioters to force their gates), and danced out gaily." -- Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood "Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent." -- Epictetus "Food is our common ground, a universal experience." -- James Beard "Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside." -- Mark Twain "I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat." -- The Waiter, Waiter Rant

Ep 29 - Viva Burritos & Rio Grande III

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In this week's episode, we discuss a new burrito place in Oshawa called Viva Burritos.  Great food, old school customer service, affordable and quick!  Also, we pine for our favourite Morgantown Mexican Restaurant: Rio Grande III.

Towards the end of the episode, we incorrectly identified Chi-chi's downfall - it was not e. coli in the romaine or tainted salsa - it was Hepatitis A from the green onions.  Well, the moral of the story is, you can never trust a green onion cause you don't know where it's been.

Links of Interest:

• William's Coffe Pub - http://www.williamscoffeepub.com/
• Viva Burrito (12 Centre St. N., Oshawa ON) - http://www.vivaburritos.ca/main/Home.html
• Rio Grande III (1417 Elk Rd, Morgantown WV)- http://www.allmenus.com/wv/morgantown/246907-rio-grande-iii/menu/
• Los Mariachis (1137 Van Voorhis Rd., Morgantown WV) - http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/226/1096373/restaurant/Los-Mariachis-Morgantown
• Chi-chi's Hepatitis A Outbreak Via Green Onions - http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2009/09/meaningful-outbreak-6-chi-chis-hepatitis-a-outbreak/

Ep 28 - Applewood Farm Winery and Teddy's Restaurant Oshawa

We found a great new winery in Stouffville! Also, a long time coming, the great Oshawa landmark - Teddy's!!

• Applewood Farm Winery - http://www.applewoodfarmwinery.com/
• Mead types explained, including cyser - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead
• Port wine - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_wine
• The Thomas Jefferson Hour - http://www.jeffersonhour.org/
• Jefferson wine bottle on auction - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_keefe - which may be a fake - http://www.grapewallofchina.com/2009/11/13/china-thomas-jefferson-and-fake-wine-benjamin-wallace-author-of-billionaires-vinegar/
• Wine in Virginia (oops! We were wrong!) - http://www.monticellowinetrail.com/
• Info on duties on alcohol when returning to the US (please check official sites before your trip - we're not responsible if this info is outdated!) - http://gocanada.about.com/od/faqscrossingtheborde1/p/duty_free.htm
• Chowhound (It seems like everytime we look a restaurant up here, it's full of negative comments) - http://chowhound.chow.com/boards

Ep 27 - Soda Pop!

http://zweifatchicks.podbean.com BRAAAAAP! Oh, excuse me! Excessive burping aside, please enjoy our soda pop show; it was 4 "takes" in the making. We finally got it where we were happy with it so check it out. The sodas that we sampled were: Jones Root Beer, Big Sky Jamaican Ginger Ale, Boylan's Orange Seltzer Water and GUS Pomegranite. The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy - http://popvssoda.com:2998/ Root Beer:

• Dog N' Suds - http://www.dog-n-suds.com/
• Dad's Root Beer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Root_Beer
• Gale's Root Beer - http://cookingresources.suite101.com/article.cfm/interview_with_chef_gale_gand
• Saranac - http://www.saranac.com/section/soft-drinks
• Stewart's - http://www.drinkstewarts.com/
• IBC - http://www.ibcrootbeer.com/

Soft Drink Health Concerns (we advise you drink what you like):

• High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFC) - http://health.msn.com/nutrition/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100235311
• Aspartame - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

Out of the Ordinary Soft Drinks:

• Jones Soda - http://www.jonessoda.com/
• Taylor's Orange Drink (Now Galliker's) - http://www.gallikers.com/Index.aspx
• Spezi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezi
• Birch Beer - http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/money/story.html?id=c361762e-acdf-47b3-bf2b-d60e49d7391d&k=64566
• Diet Pepsi Twist - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Twist
• Coke Zero - http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp
• Boylan Bottling Company - http://www.boylanbottling.com/
• G.U.S. (Grown Up Soda) - http://drinkgus.com/
• 10 Most Bizarre Soft Drinks - http://www.oddee.com/item_96574.aspx
• Japanese "Ramune" Soda Drink (w/ glass ball stopper) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramune
• Orbitz - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitz_(soft_drink)

Energy Drinks:

• Jones Soda Whoop Ass - http://www.jonessoda.com/files/products-energy.php
• Red Bull - http://www.redbull.com/
• Rockstar - http://www.rockstar69.com/
• Amp - http://www.ampenergy.com/
• Bawls - http://www.bawls.com/
• Rocketshots - http://www.energydrinkreviews.com/?Welcome:Energy_Drinks:Rocket_Shot
• Jolt Cola - http://www.joltenergy.com/default.aspx
• Water Joe - http://www.waterjoe.com/

Ep 26 - Lulu's Noodles & Imperial Buffet's Mongolian BBQ

ttp://zweifatchicks.podbean.com Here is our first episode recorded since we came back from Montreal, hope you enjoy it!  A couple of corrections to our prattling:

• Cilantro is indeed from Southern Europe and Asia, not North America
• AJ Minati was the brother in the Exploding Barrel podcast that mentioned LuLu's Noodles in The Pitt expansion of Fall Out 3.

• Imperial China Buffet (5138 Peach Street, Erie PA) - http://www.yelp.com/biz/imperial-china-buffet-erie
• Books Galore (5546 Peach Street, Erie PA) - http://www.myspace.com/eriebooksgalore
• Lulu's Noodles (400 S Craig Street, Pittsburgh PA) - http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/23/271003/restaurant/Oakland/Lu-Lus-Noodles-Pittsburgh
• Pad Thai - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_Thai
• Chop Suey - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_suey
• Trader Joe's - http://www.traderjoes.com/
• Phantom of the Attic Comics (Second Floor, 406 South Craig Street, Pittsburgh PA) - http://www.myspace.com/pota_comics

Snack #2 - Clarissa and the King's Cookbook

http://zweifatchicks.podbean.com Unfortunately, for the last few weeks, the Zwei Fat Chicks have had the flu and were unable to record. Fortunately, we have an unreleased snack to placate you with! We incorrectly refer to the show as "Clarissa and the King's Table" - it is actually "Clarissa and the King's Cookbook" and we found an educational site that you can watch the video on for free: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/educational_and_howto/watch/v18924548G84dj5dD For more information, check out BBC Four's website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/medieval/cookbook.shtml

Ep 25 - À Bientôt, Montréal! Part 2

http://zweifatchicks.podbean.com We hated to say farewell to Montreal, but we shall definitely return again someday.  So many delicious food and drink, so little time!

• Dunn's Famous Restaurant (1249 Metcalfe) - http://www.dunnsfamous.com/montreal_smoked_meat.htm
• Marche Bonsecour (350 rue St. Paul Est) - http://www.aviewoncities.com/montreal/marchebonsecours.htm
• Jacek Yerka -  http://www.yerkaland.com/
• Kunst Bar Animation - http://www.whitehouseanimationinc.com/kunstbar.htm
• SpecialTea (corner of René-Lévesque and Clark) - http://specialtea.ca/
• Dragon's Beard Candy - http://montreal.about.com/od/foodwine/ss/dragon_beard_candy_johnny_chin.htm
• La Belle Gueule by Brasseurs RJ - http://www.brasseursrj.com/belle_gueule_an.htm