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Onuk
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Wed Jul 24, 02 08:21 AM

As Aaron says, "But seriously guys, let's not feed stereotypes here. Quants can get girls, it's a proven fact", and I'm pretty sure that some of us can cook too. I'm happened on this cookbook the other day, and wondered whether anyone here had some hot tips for those late night snacks?

Geek's Cookbook

(My personal favourite here is maybe Mojo-Jojo's Fried Egg Sandwich of Doom).

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Paul
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Wed Jul 24, 02 11:59 AM

From PWOQF: "The following cocktail was invented for me by a barman at the Randolph in Oxford. In a shot glass, one measure of Midori (the Japanese melon liqueur), a dash of Green Chartreuse, some Gomme syrup. Stir gently, otherwise the syrup will sink. Now float double cream on top, drink in one go."

Whenever Forum members get together this is what they drink...and can be used as a means of identifying other members!

It is called: Paul's Prozac Potion

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MobPsycho
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Wed Jul 24, 02 01:39 PM

Edited: Sat Aug 30, 03 at 01:53 AM by MobPsycho

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Hamilton
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Wed Jul 24, 02 02:35 PM

Paul's Prozac Potion

Pronounced in Latin this is called "Reverse Peristalsis"

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Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

�Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals

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Johnny
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Wed Jul 24, 02 02:44 PM

I'm worried that this thread started just after Aaron mentioned the book "Contingency Cannibalism: Superhardcore Survivalism's Dirty Little Secret".

I'm worried that I can't find the thread where he mentioned the book.

And finally I'm worried that when I went to Amazon to buy it, one of the books in the "People who bought this book also bought ... " section was Bjork: Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time.

What-what-what does it all mean?

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Omar
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Wed Jul 24, 02 03:12 PM

I bought Bjork's book because I plan to use it in a class (sorry, Paul), then I bought "Contingency Cannibalism" because I thought it makes good bedtime reading. I apologize for any distress I may have caused.

Edited: Wed Jul 24, 02 at 03:14 PM by Omar

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Johnny
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Wed Jul 24, 02 03:16 PM

So not the work of the Hollandus pere et fils then?

Edited: Wed Jul 24, 02 at 03:19 PM by Johnny

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MobPsycho
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Wed Jul 24, 02 03:28 PM

Edited: Sat Aug 30, 03 at 01:52 AM by MobPsycho

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JabairuStork
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Wed Jul 24, 02 05:21 PM

MP -

First of all, I will take you on in any kitchen using any legitimate food ingredients (i.e. must have some nutritional value) in a cooking showdown.

Second, drinking dark rum neat is disgusting, with or without the cream to ponce it up. I used to drink it, but only becuase I had insomnia and it was the only thing that helped me fall asleep. You say it helped you get girls' numbers? Dubious.

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MobPsycho
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Wed Jul 24, 02 05:33 PM

Edited: Sat Aug 30, 03 at 01:51 AM by MobPsycho

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Wed Jul 24, 02 08:14 PM

MP, I would like to say, when feeding you one is certainly not feeding a stereotype; you are an outstanding individual. Probably tasty too.

Is the dog a legitimate ingredient or the only animal with enough sense of smell to truly savour the results?

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JabairuStork
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Wed Jul 24, 02 09:23 PM

I don't think you can beat me unless you are going to cheat.

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jungle
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Thu Jul 25, 02 12:09 PM

there are at least two (reformed) professional chefs on this forum, so they may have an advantage in our little cook-off...

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MobPsycho
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Thu Jul 25, 02 12:16 PM

Edited: Sat Aug 30, 03 at 01:51 AM by MobPsycho

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reza
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Thu Jul 25, 02 12:23 PM

If there are any Jackson-Hole (the Burger chain) fans out there ...
lets start a club !

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Thu Jul 25, 02 02:00 PM

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If there are any Jackson-Hole (the Burger chain) fans out there ...
lets start a club !

Name's Crok, Ray Crok!

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Alice thought that running very fast for a long time would get you to somewhere else. " A very slow kind of country!" said the queen. "Now, here , you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place".

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Aaron
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Thu Jul 25, 02 07:27 PM

I was impressed by the distaff enthusiasm for the Sake Cosmopolitan cocktail served at Blowfish Sushi in San Francisco, and copied by trendy bars everywhere (at least, everywhere I go). I disliked the triple sec, which is copied from the vodka recipe. Vodka is harsh and needs a strong sweetener. Sake is mild and plum wine does a much better job in both taste and appearance, plus offers cultural consistency. So, if you want to get girls (I don't think this works for getting guys, beer is usually the preferred beverage for that), mix up:

5 ounces of sake (get decent quality, $6 to $8 per liter, but don't waste good stuff)
1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice (no pulp)
1 ounce cranberry juice (you can buy bottled, but do not use cranberry juice mixtures, the real stuff costs $5 to $10 per quart; you can also squeeze and strain fresh cranberries)
1 ounce plum wine (this is actually wine, usually grape, flavored with plum concentrate rather than fermented plums, if you can find sake flavored with plum concentrate, this can be used to replace the sake and save yourself one step)

Here's the rub. A cosmopolitan is normally shaken in a cocktail shaker, which is always cool. But sake is less alcholic than vodka and will be weakened too much. So you need a cool way to chill this before putting it in two martini glasses and having your way. First, make sure all the ingedients are cold before you start. Then mix up the drinks in pitcher, and place the pitcher in an ice bucket. Also, keep your martini glasses in the freezer, this is always cool.

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JabairuStork
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Thu Jul 25, 02 08:40 PM

Ok , Aaron, now you are perverting a perversion.

I'm a martini purist who is shocked an appalled by all of the fruity drinks masquerading behind the martini appelation. I count the cosmopolitan in this company because, despite not calling itself a martini, it is served in a martini glass and people drink it with the attitude that it is a "martini-lite".

Many of you will be wondering why anyone should care, in which case you should stop reading at this point.

Now, the cosmopolitan is a perfectly acceptable as a highball or as a shooter. But please serve it in the appropriate glass - NOT a martini glass.

The sake variation sounds like a pleasant little thing, a second cousin to the wine spritzer perhaps. You could drink one on one of those hot afternoons in the Mission before the fog rolls in. But if by "getting girls" you mean "causing women to become inebriated", you are better off sticking with the traditional cosmopolitan. You have traded down in alchohol content by replacing vodka with sake and triple-sec with plum wine, resulting in a drink that ranks somewhere between boone's apple farm wine and a plum-flavored daquiri in potency.

A drink of the kind you describe really should be served in a highball glass, over ice. In a martini glass it will get warm, which I suspect is nasty. One of the benefits of vigorously shaking the martini (which I agree you don't want to do with something like sake) is that it results in lots of tiny little ice chips that float across the surface of the liquor. Combined with a well-chilled glass, this will keep the gin (or vodka for you barbarians) cold long enough to drink most of it before it hits room temperature.

Warm gin is good in its own right, but should be imbibed straight from the bottle, and without any garnishes other than a brown paper bag.

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James
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Mon Jul 29, 02 06:11 PM

My High Shool Drink Recipe to Get Girls:

This is the Memphis version. The full on Mississippi version involves...shall we say....untaxed ingredients.

1 bottle "Everclear" pure grain alcohol.
1 large package of Grape Kool-Aid. Mix with half the rec'd water.
Combine ingredients, place in freezer.
Invite 10x times the women you could hopefully manage and tell each to bring a friend. Your first yield will be below this 20x figure, and upon serving said concoction with nuclear-orange colored Cheetoes as a munchie your volatility to contract performance will be wild, but ultimately risk free on geting at least one "strike."

BTW, I also went to culinary school and worked part-time on peak weekends at "Gerard's Place" and "Obelisk" in D.C. I can make a brunoise so fine you won't be able to see that they are diamond shaped without reading glasses. Taste good is for amatures. I can make it taste and look better than anyone on the forum. Come to Paris and I will show you my chops. Same ingredients. One hour. No tears.

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Aaron
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Mon Jul 29, 02 10:04 PM

I share your outlook, but not your principles. The martini glass is cool. And it invites constant replenishment, as it doesn't hold much. Even with your ice chips (something I hadn't considered) a martini loses its icy zing in five minutes or less. You can nurse a drink with ice until it waters into innocuousness, and a drink that does not need to be cold, like wine, forever. The constant replenishment leads to cool accessories like cocktail shakers, pitchers and ice buckets.

Women like to be cool as much, or more, than men. But most won?t gulp down a series of martinis consisting of almost pure gin (they will eat the olives from yours all night, however, if you let them). There are exceptions of course, but these do not require finesse.

A general rule for women?s cool is take men?s cool, dilute and add bright colors with wimpy names. Voila, the sake cosmopolitan. I deny your equation of "getting girls" with "causing women to become inebriated." I can get sober girls, thank you very much. I insist that doing something cool and giving someone something they like is the key, not the percentage of alcohol consumed (although it doesn?t hurt if it loosens them up a bit). Also, consider the importance of frequent service (most women will not grab the pitcher and help themselves and, again, finesse won?t help you with them).

Moreover, even if your only hope of success requires large quantities of alcohol, it does not follow that it must be concentrated. Drinkers feel the amount of alcohol they drink, non-drinkers feel the amount of alcohol minus the amount of sugar water (with a double subtraction for brightly colored sugar water). Most guys get drunk for the first time trying to get drunk, most women get drunk for the first time by mistake on some weak, fruity punch.

Finally, you underestimate the subtlety of the sake cosmopolitan. It is not a ?second cousin to a wine spritzer.? Sake has a lot of character, as do the fruit additions. It does not cover up the taste of the alcohol, as most sweet drinks do, the alcohol captures the volatiles in the fruit. It?s like port or brandy, but lighter, an aperitif rather than a dessert wine.

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