The Eclectic Chef

Eclectic: “..not following one style or set of ideas but choosing from or using a wide variety.”

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Veganism is 82 years old. It is younger than the helicopter, the ballpoint pen and the chocolate chip cookie.

The word was coined in Leicester in November 1944 by a woodwork teacher called Donald Watson.

He took the first three and last two letters of vegetarian.

Vitamin B12 was isolated in 1948.

For its first four years the diet was missing a nutrient nobody knew existed.

No plant makes B12. Without it the nerves lose their insulation, and they do not get it back.

Every vegan alive depends on a factory fermenting it in a steel vat.

In 300,000 years no human society ever tried the diet.

India's vegetarians run the largest dairy herd on earth and cook in ghee.

Tibet's Buddhists live on yak butter and meat.

The Jains drink milk. The Adventists kept the eggs.

Every culture that ever gave up flesh kept tight hold of an animal.

Anthropologists have gone looking for a vegan tribe, past or present, and come home with none.

A diet that cannot exist without a 20th-century laboratory is being taught to schoolchildren as humanity's natural state.

82 years old, and already lecturing a 2.6 million-year-old species on what it was built to eat.

Still can't leave the house without its tablet.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@meathead Handily, my gas grill has a ring too.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

Sometimes I wonder why our "culinary" (sic) magazines are in such a race to the bottom. (No pun intended)

[EatingWell Magazine @EatingWell]

Discover 6 carb-rich foods to help you poop. https://t.co/FwMskP29Og

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

So who were they? My answer is consistently the same: I make my own from scratch.

[EatingWell Magazine @EatingWell]

We asked chefs the best brand of broth or stock to buy, and they all said the same thing. https://t.co/kU91PiNnDU

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@JonFraserTF @realretroguy #metoo Don't buy hardly anything.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@JonFraserTF That looks really good!

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@XWorldCuisines I love this. The best I have ever done was finished in an Instant Pot with an Air Fryer lid. Really.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@meathead AS I have posted before, my very best crunchy pork belly was done in an Instant Pot with the Air Fryer lid. Otherwise my process was pretty similar.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@axrbarsic The beauty and variety of God's creation.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@phai97152 Now that's neat!

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@meathead The other thing I noticed, is, once again, the marriage of pork and seafood, which seems to cross continents.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

I have to differ with you a bit. Some years ago I set up an outsourcing center in Cebu in the Philippines and while I was there I came to love lechon. Literal translation, I believe, is "fat (small roast pigs)." They're delightful.
We recently had a Seafood City here open up and I can get lechon there although it's a little bit on the high price side. I think I know where you are and I think you have a Seafood City in the Albany Park/North Mayfair neighborhood.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

You should be. It's tasteful (no pun intended) and very artful. If they're all like this you're selling a coffee table book not a cookbook. I do have a sincere question though, driven by professional curiosity, if you know (you may have peeps who do this for you): May I ask what digital editor was used here? The one I use, Reve, is going away in seven days and I am gutted, since it enhances my pictures without changing my food.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@meathead I remember watching a video of Martin Yan showing off his knife skills on a chicken -- and that was with a large Chinese knife. How he still has any fingers is beyond me.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

I used my 36-hour fermented yoghurt in both the tandoori-style chicken and the potato and roasted corn raita. It worked out REALLY well. Chicken and corn cooked in the air fryer, too! https://t.co/UW2FopaUBu

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@tetsujin_8888 Lamb

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

Is This the Best Chicken Tandoori Ever? https://t.co/YTmJeGJuzd via @YouTube

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@tetsujin_8888 Nice knifework.

[The Eclectic Chef @theeclecticchef]

@meathead Somehow, I don't think this is his first time.......

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@japan_nobunaga We could all learn a lot from Quokkas....