Comments on: What Is American Food? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2008/11/what-is-american-food/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: D O'Reilly http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2008/11/what-is-american-food/comment-page-1/#comment-360 D O'Reilly Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:23:22 +0000 http://food.smithsonianmag.com/?p=134#comment-360 Koot, strangely enough seems to have a Dutch origin from the word koet describing an aquatic bird of the rail family... one must imagine that this tastes good after steaming! Koot, strangely enough seems to have a Dutch origin from the word koet describing an aquatic bird of the rail family… one must imagine that this tastes good after steaming!

]]> By: margriet kemper http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2008/11/what-is-american-food/comment-page-1/#comment-128 margriet kemper Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:57:06 +0000 http://food.smithsonianmag.com/?p=134#comment-128 Dear sir, madam, I am now working on a dutch translation of MFK Fisher's Consider the oyster. There is at least one thing that puzzles me: What in heavens name is 'steamed coot' I am not able to find anything, although ofcourse I know what a coot is. I would be grateful if you could help me with this, with kind regards, margriet kemper Dear sir, madam,

I am now working on a dutch translation of MFK Fisher’s Consider the oyster.
There is at least one thing that puzzles me: What in heavens name is ‘steamed coot’ I am not able to find anything, although ofcourse I know what a coot is.
I would be grateful if you could help me with this,

with kind regards,

margriet kemper

]]> By: This is Your Brain…In Cake | Surprising Science http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2008/11/what-is-american-food/comment-page-1/#comment-106 This is Your Brain…In Cake | Surprising Science Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:06:09 +0000 http://food.smithsonianmag.com/?p=134#comment-106 [...] shine in a way that is far too reminiscent of the organs’ actual origin. Then again, she’s not too fond of eating organ meat. And neither am I. Posted By: Sarah Zielinski — The Human Body | Link | Share/Save [...] [...] shine in a way that is far too reminiscent of the organs’ actual origin. Then again, she’s not too fond of eating organ meat. And neither am I. Posted By: Sarah Zielinski — The Human Body | Link | Share/Save [...]

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