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Subject: Re: Couple questions and a comment! From: kirstin Date: 11/2/2018 12:07 PM To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com On 11/2/2018 3:00 AM, kirstin wrote: Hi Uncle Phaedrus- A while back you posted a review of a restaurant you dined and believe me, reading about someone else's dinner is not exactly a gripping read, but yours was soooo interesting. I mean it! I wish you posted more of those. If I remember correctly I think the main dish was duck? I think it was French food. You don't post anything about you, I checked your FAQ and nothing about why or how you got started on this site. Are we allowed more than one question per query? ?? OK, my first is: What is it that gives Wolf Brand Chili its signature flavor? It has some undertone to it, that I can't place. No other canned chili has it. It almost makes me think of curry but I could be wrong. Second question: do you cook, and if so, how good a cook would you consider yourself? What are your hobbies? Thank you
Hi Kirstin,
I could not find a post on my site in which I reviewed a restaurant where I had eaten duck. The only post that I could find in which I described duck that I had eaten personally was one in which I described duck that was stuffed with wild rice and smoked at a hunting lodge in Arkansas. See "My Bill of Fare": My Bill of Fare
I'm a bit mystified that you say there is nothing in my FAQ about how the site got started, because the very first line of the FAQ directs you to a "Timeline" of how the site began:
I have no idea of a particular ingredient that gives Wolf Brand chili its unique taste. The actual recipe does not appear to be available, and the ingredients listed on the can are a great deal less than helpful in this respect:
meat ingredients (beef, pork), water, tomato puree (water, tomato paste), rolled oats, textured vegetable protein (soy flour and caramel color), chili pepper, contains less than 2% of the following: salt, sugar, spices, garlic powder, soy lecithin, caramel color, sodium tripolyphosphate.
In December of 1991, the Dallas Times Herald published a copycat recipe for Wolf Brand chili that's probably the closest one available to the real recipe.
See:
You might be able to figure out the secret ingredient by comparing that recipe to other chili recipes.
I cook very little, Kirsten. I suppose that I have learned a great deal about cooking in the almost 20 years that I have been doing this site, but the joy for me is in searching for the recipes and the answers, not in actual cooking.
Phaed