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Cookbook of the Month March 2013 EVERY GRAIN OF RICE: General discussion thread
Good evening my little mad March hares - pinch, punch the first of the month is nearly upon, us so it's time to begin cooking from EVERY GRAIN OF RICE by Fuchsia Dunlop.
The reporting threads are here:
Cold dishes, Tofu, Meat, Chicken and Eggs, Fish and Seafood
Beans and peas, Leafy Greens, Garlic and Chives, Aubergines, Peppers and Squashes, Root Vegetables, Mushrooms
Soups, Rice, Noodles, Dumplings, Stocks, Preserves and Other Essentials
In addition, there is already a lively discussion in the announcement thread, which can be found here:
Some folks have already reported on some dishes in a pre-COTM thread, which is here:
You know the drill - let's get cooking!
Soy sauce question -- in EGOR, FD recommends using organic tamari instead of the combo of light and dark soy sauce. However, the brand of tamari she uses is not available in the U.S. to my knowledge. I'm just about to use up my bottle of Pearl River Bridge Superior Light Soy Sauce, and I'm wondering whether I should replace it with a good tamari? If so, which brand is good? I do have access to a Japanese market if that helps. Thanks, hounds!
re: Westminstress
I keep San-J brand Tamari Soy Sauce/Wheat Free/Organic in the pantry but use the light and dark soy sauce combination too. I do prefer the combination better than anything however when I want a lighter flavor I use the San-J. I think Kikkoman makes the same kind of tamari as well.
re: Westminstress
Curious where you see that recommendation. In "Basics" on page 10 she says "A good tamari . . . can be used instead of light soy sauce." I took that to mean that instead of combining light and dark soy sauces, you can instead combine tamari and dark soy sauce.
I do keep tamari on hand, San-J brand also, but use it mainly when a gluten-intolerant friend comes to dinner. I can't imagine completely replacing light soy sauce (I like Kimlan brand) with tamari. To me, light soy sauce is less intense, yet has more of a umami flavor than tamari. And I totally agree with Gio that my preference is for a mix of the light and dark.
re: Westminstress
I think this is the discussion I was thinking of in which FD says tamari can replace the light/dark combo. http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/chinese-...
But it appears to be based on having access to really good artisinal tamari, not sure San-J would do the job.
I might check out the Japanese store and will look for kimlan soy sauce as well. What brand do you like for dark soy sauce?
re: Westminstress
I've just about finished a bottle of Pearl River Bridge dark soy sauce and bought a bottle of Kimlan dark soy to replace it, but I haven't tried it yet. Another Kimlan product, Super Special Soy Sauce, is great as a dipping sauce. It's so smooth, it's almost drinkable. More expensive than the other types, but well worth it when you want the flavor of the soy sauce to stand on it's own.
re: JoanN
I hope the Kimlan dark soy is just soy, they have a soy paste-ish bottle that has an odd taste. Let us know please...
BTW the name is pronounced Jinlan, it means golden orchid...that super special one is v good, as is their multigrain one.
Since this is a Taiwanese brand, and there's a lot of Japanese influence in Taiwanese food (owing to its having been occupied by the Japanese from 1895 to 1945), the Kimlan is a bit on the Japanese soy sauce side of things.
re: buttertart
Interesting. I remember Sam Fujisaka once saying that Kikomann was the only soy sauce he ever used and I found that surprising. I much preferred Pearl River Bridge to Kikomann and Kimlan to PRB. Never thought that much about origin. It was just a question of flavor preference.
re: greedygirl
The one I just bought looks like this:
http://tinyurl.com/kolkxwjBut I also saw one in the store that looked like this:
http://tinyurl.com/lhla7eeI don't know the difference between them, but I decided to buy the one that specifically said "light." Not sure if that was the right one. GG, does yours look like either of the images above?
re: greedygirl
I don't know about the subtleties of Tawainese's soy sauces. 醬油 is what my Taiwanese friend called soy sauce. (That's what it says on buttertart's bottle). I would use it as the all purpose soy sauce, and whenever recipes called for light soy. In Hong Kong, we use 生抽 and 老抽 (light soy and dark soy).
re: greedygirl
It's the basic one used in Taiwan -- tends to be a bit lighter and sweeter than the HK ones, I think because of the Japanese influence on Taiwanese food (due to the Occupation, 1895-1945).
PS chemicalkinetics and others have weighed in on soy sauce preference...
re: Allegra_K
I'm not confused. I thought Dunlop referred to the sweet fermented sauce in the recipe? Why would the author thinks it's hoisin sauce. Given the name, I thought she'd be chinese.
The equivalent would be getting confused about butter and cream if you are an american. They have the same name in Taiwan, afaik. Also a lot of common ingredients have different names depending on which part of the Chinese dispora you are from.
re: smtucker
Thanks, another great link smt, you're on a roll!
Chang writes, "I kind of hoped that every few years, Dunlop would somehow develop a lifetime's mastery of each of the great eight Chinese cuisines and release another regional masterpiece onto the market.", guess I'm not the only one who experienced a let down when FD went for a generalist rather than a focused book....
This morning's (April 04, 2013) blog post from Fuchsia Dunlop is titled, "In praise of simplicity". She speaks of creating simple meals from bits and pieces of leftovers from previous meals that she augments with a few savory bits. As she wrote,"a staple grain, some healthy brassica greens, a little protein (the [spicy fermented] tofu), and a strongly-flavoured relish to 'send the rice down' (xia fan 下饭) (in this case the tofu again).
Curiously, this reusing of all-ready cooked food was what I had intended to do tonight and I thought others might be interested as well..
Just a question for the crew about portion sizes ... over the last few weeks I have found the portion sizes, especially of proteins, to be a bit smaller than what would be truly convenient for us. We have a family of four, and even though two of us are under 3, there is still often not enough (especially of proteins) to feed everyone comfortably and have leftovers. Yes, I could make more dishes but with two little ones underfoot, and often cooking on weeknights, it is hard for me to make more than two dishes + rice on any given night. I would like to be able to scale some of these recipes up but I'm often unsure how best to do it. Any tips would be appreciated!
re: Westminstress
We're just two here, Westminstress, and most of the time where are no left overs. G usually has much larger portion more than I. Sometimes for one reason or another there's a tiny bit left that I just use later as a component of something else.
My suggestion to you is simply double the recipe of one or two dishes of a multi-dish menu, and for sure, cook more rice. Or just double the recipe of the main protein. In the past I've just used the old X2 and eyeballed the other ratios accordingly. That seems to work for us.
Frankly, I think it's wonderful that your young children are eating this food!
re: Gio
I've found that if I pick and choose the recipes carefully, I can usually accommodate everybody. Plus honestly the baby will eat anything, and there is no rhyme or reason to what my toddler will eat. I'd pull my hair out trying to cater to him so I just make what interests me and hope for the best. This seems to be working out ok, he went through a picky stage but seems to be getting better as he gets older.
re: Westminstress
Her recommendation is # of dishes = # of people plus 1. So, yeah, you'd want to scale them up if you don't want to make more dishes. In most cases, you can just increase the quantity of everything proportionally, but just keep in mind that for dishes that involve stir-frying, you may end up crowding the pan. In those cases, you would want to consider stir-frying components separately, and then assembling them all at the end of cooking, rather than "building" one on top of the other as you would normally be instructed to do.
I agree with Gio - in most cases, you can probably increase the proportions by eyeballing things without too much trouble.
re: Westminstress
I have this problem too Westminstress. I usually double the main, and make a *lot* of rice. Then I make sure that the vegetable is either something incorporated (like the peppers with the black bean chicken) or something that doesn't also need to be stir-fried (like roasting a vegetable or making a salad-y or cold thing). I stand in awe of those who have been making more than one stir-fried thing at a time.
re: The Dairy Queen
Occasionally it does steam instead of stir fry (this happened my first time around with lamb with cumin, but it was still delicious), but as BC said, the quantities in this book seem especially small to me (at least so far), and I haven't had a problem with it.
I *wish* had a secret technique!
re: LulusMom
BUT don't do what I did last night and triple it in the beef with celery recipe. I upped the other seasonings but it wasn't as sprightly and fun to eat...
I do make a feast once in a while for an occasion, but for casual cooking for 2, a dish, a veg, and rice is about my limit.
re: Westminstress
My experience so far--and I've tried only a handful of dishes--is that they mostly serve two, unless you're making a feast, with several dishes. While that works out just fine for us, I think you need to double the recipes if you're trying to feed more than two (or want leftovers).
One of the food blogs I read, TheKitchn.com did a review of EGOR today... it's not very long but just thought I'd share: http://www.thekitchn.com/every-grain-...
First I have to admit that it's been fun lurking on this part of Chowhound for the past year. I've certainly bought too many cookbooks because of the posts here.
I was wondering if there are any soup recipes in EGOR that I can make the day before and still hold up the next day?
Does anyone know how long a jar of the fermented white tofu lasts once opened? I'm using the same brand as she has in her glossary and it's in the fridge. I have noticed a slight discolouration of the cubes that are exposed to air at the top but it smells the same after a week.
A question to those of you who wok frequently....do you have a special set-up for your woks? Using a burner with a high BTU? Or, like me, do you have ordinary glass/coil stoves?
I'm looking for ways to optimize the wok hei/hay in my stir-frying, and wondering what most of you do to obtain the ultimate in deliciousness.-
re: Allegra_K
We use our ordinary gas range and the hot burner that is "down front, right." That's how I first described it to my husband so he'd know which burner to set the wok on. He prefers the wok to any other pan we have. The burner is not one of those with stratospheric BTU amounts, but it seems to be just right for our use.
re: Gio
My stove has an extra hot burner in front, too. During Grace Young month, I actually had a back and forth exchange in one of those threads with GY herself about my extra hot burner and what I was witnessing in terms of what was happening with my ingredients--things were scorching way too fast, etc. She was incredulous but she ended up suggesting that I turn the burner down a notch! So, somehow, depsite the fact that I keep hearing people say that home ranges can't get hot enough to achieve wok hei, for my flat bottomed carbon steel wok, my burner is too hot. I don't really understand this, but my wok doesn't behave "typically" in other respects, either (ie., it doesn't bead in the same way others do.) Kind of Twilight Zone'ish if you ask me.
re: Gio
Well that's a great tip I completely missed! I suppose it evaporates/encloses enough water in the meat to do the trick. I'll use that idea next time I do beef, even chicken.
My gas stove is a regular Sears Kenmore (with a right front "Power Burner") but on *any* burner I can get my 14" wok hot enough to overcook/burn. I usually do small amounts of chopped food, though -- if I had restaurant or even dinner party amounts it might cool things down enough to impair the results. -
re: Gio
Also, I find that the stewing effect comes from a bit of overcrowding the wok. For my 12 inch wok, I've learned that I can only have about 3/4 lbs to just under a lb to have a great sear. A lb or more will cause it to stew. Also, while I do throw the meat into the wok, I try and spread it into an almost single layer.
I also use the one minute stir and then flip and stir fry method.
re: beetlebug
I've learned my lesson with overcrowding and stir-frying. I'm not sure I realized it at the time, but early on with Dunlop's LOP & RC recipes , I often doubled the recipes so we'd have leftovers for lunch, etc.But, my results weren't as good... I'm not sure when I eventually came to understand that it's better to do two batches of stir-fry than do one "double" batch. Unless, I guess,you have a second, humungo wok (which I do not.)
Also, I'm often wanting to throw extra vegetables in. Instead of just tossing them in, I often now stir fry them separately, set them aside, and then mix them in at the end. This prevents not only the over-crowding but, I think, the extra moisture in the vegetables from "steaming" everything...
re: Allegra_K
We have a Capital Culinarian, and it's great.
~ 23k BTU, so while it's not like a restaurant setup, it's fairly close to about as high as you'd want in a residential kitchen (there are some stand-alone wok burners that are ~ 30k), and it's definitely enough to keep things constantly sizzling, even when new ingredients are added.
Compared to other stoves, I like the design of the wok ring a lot - it's large, heavy, and holds the wok higher up.
re: will47
When I have an opportunity to have a new kitchen, I will definitely consider a Capital Culinarian or Bluestar due to all the wok cooking I do now. I passed on the Bluestar a few years ago because I just wasn't fond of the looks, but I wasn't doing much wok cooking then, either.
re: Allegra_K
I'll throw my two cents in to the is spirited discussion.
Years ago when I was renting I had a carbon steel wok with a round bottom that I purchased locally. It was super cheap but worked quite well on my coil stove (with the aid of a ring underneath to hold it). Fast forward a few years and we renovated our kitchen and purchased a glass cooktop since gas wasn't an option.
Of course the round bottomed wok had to go since the ring was likely to scratch up the cooktop. I purchased a flat bottomed wok pan and off I went. Well let me tell you it was not a great success. I found that it didn't get hot enough and often had hot spots, plus since it was stainless everything stuck to it.
My final solution was a Le Creuset wok. It was pricey but I absolutely love it. It is enameled cast iron on the outside and raw cast iron on the inside (like a traditional cast iron pan). The bottom is flat but the inside of the wok is rounded because the case iron at the base is very thick. I usually place it on the large burner and let it heat on high for several minutes (up to 5), it gets cooking hot and the thick cast iron retains the heat very well so that the temperature doesn't drop when I add ingredients.
I have found that so long as I avoid over crowding it does an excellent job. A pricey pan for sure, but cheaper than a higher powered stove of course.
I finally found camellia oil in a local store. Not sure Dunlop mentions this in EGOR, but she does in her other books. Has anyone cooked with it?
re: emily
I've used it some, though always a bit nervous about using it for high-heat applications.
The versions I can get locally are a bit on the expensive side. It does go rancid relatively quickly relative to some other oils, so if you have some, you'll want to use it fairly quickly.
I've been meaning to try making some chili oil with it, which sounds like it would be really tasty.
I was sure I saw a recipe in EGOR that called for pea leaves but now I'm home (w pea leaves in hand) I can't find it! I've checked the index and EYB...nada.
I know there's one in RCC. If anyone comes across this will you pls let me know?
I'm obviously losing it!!
re: Breadcrumbs
I just Love pea shoots. There's a recipe in Land of Plenty that uses them as well, Yibin Kindling Noodles, and it's really good. Also if you have any left over, there's a few recipes in Burma that use the blanched greens, and I suspect many of the applications for various Asian greens in EGOR would do well using pea shoots.
What is the preferred brand of chinkiang vinegar that most of you use?
For ages I have happily been using 'Gold Plum' brand, but find that recently the company changed the packaging shape ever so slightly, and I fear they may have also 'improved' the recipe a bit. The flavours seem a bit muddier than they used to, and not as bright, if that makes any sense. Has anyone else noticed this? Maybe within the last year or so. I've tried purchasing several different bottles from different vendors all with the same result. Currently I am using a different brand that is sightly better, Jinshansi, but it's still not as good as what used to be out there. Also tried another brand, Kong Yen (simply labelled 'Black Vinegar') and wasn't a fan.
Any recommendations? -
Somewhere we had a discussion about tips for this month (I thought it was here but it seems not).
I'd noticed there were a few recipes calling for cooked chicken so I'm going to purchase a tray of thighs and poach them today then freeze them for use throughout the month.
mr bc just reminded me of something I did during the Grace Young COTM and said I should post about it. Since a number of recipes called for ground, roasted Sichuan pepper, I decided to purchase a pepper grinder just for Sichuan peppercorns (yes I do realize they are not truly peppercorns). I toasted them in small batches - maybe one batch per week then tossed them into my grinder and used them as I needed them. This worked really well and was a great time-saver. Anyone else w some time-saving tips?
re: Breadcrumbs
We do the same with the Szechuan peppercorns, BC. Just enough for a couple of recipes worth. In fact we pre-grind all peppercorns. It is very time saving.
From the Trader Joe's yay & nay thread: Frozen minced fresh garlic, and frozen cubes of fresh basil. The garlic is measured in teaspoons and all one does is pop it out of the little bubble. I used 3 in the sweet and sour fish we made a few days ago. Just like magic!
Haven't used the basil yet but I'm sure it's going to be just as wonderful. No need to defrost first.
Yes, I know it's best to do as I have been doing for the last 100 years and use fresh/fresh... but in my situation now the less I have to prep the better.
re: Breadcrumbs
I found another time-saving idea if anyone is interested. At an Asian grocer yesterday I saw a small canister of toasted sesame seeds. I wasn't sure whether or not any of the dishes I'd be making called for them so I didn't purchase them. I did have an opportunity to taste them though since the friend I was shopping with picked some up. I was pleasantly surprised by their intense sesame flavour.
I know see a few dishes in EGOR have you toast sesame seeds in your hot wok prior to preparing your meal so you can incorporate them or garnish w them later. I know its only a small step but not doing it will save a bit of time and for me, on a weeknight, every minute counts.
re: Breadcrumbs
I buy toasted too. It's just easier.
Also a trick I learnt from a Malaysian Chinese friend is to pre-cut spring onion greens and keep them in the fridge in an airtight container that's lined with paper towels. They stay nice for at least three days. My fridge is tiny and the bunches of spring onions I get are too long so this works a treat.
re: Breadcrumbs
If there was another "tips" discussion, I missed it. So I would love a link to it if anyone remembers where it is.
Fuchsia mentioned freezing meats for an hour or two before you need to slice them to make it easier to get those fine cuts.
I will probably try to do some mise en place in the mornings to make dinner go a little more quickly.
ETA: here's the other time-saving discussion, I think:
To summarize:
Get a rice cooker.
re: Breadcrumbs
A couple of other time saving thoughts:
~Have your leftover rice in the fridge if you're planning stir-fried rice.
~Go through the last chapter in the book "stocks, preserves & other essentials" and prepare batches in advance, the chilli oil, the stock, the roasted peanuts.
re: The Dairy Queen
Great tips TDQ! I hope we can keep them coming!!
I made a big batch of stock today and put it ini ziplocks in 1 cup portions then froze them (flat because freezer space is always at a premium.) I threw a couple of star anise into my pots today and I love the flavour it imparted.
Has anyone posted a shopping list of key ingredients yet?
I'm excited because mr bc suggested we make the trek to a big Asian supermarket (T&T - http://www.tnt-supermarket.com/en/ind... ) so I need to pull together a shopping list this weekend.
re: Breadcrumbs
I linked to Fuchsia's pantry essentials/shopping list in my post here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/8912...
I'd add tofu and wasabi paste to the list (for that avocado and tofu dish!) and tian jin preserved vegetables.
re: The Dairy Queen
That's a great list TDQ thank-you.
I'll paste that list into word and added suggested brand names beside it.
Gio, great idea to take the book w me. I'll definitely do that. In the past I've printed photos from my Google search but this way, I'll be sure to get the right brands. I was excited to see that FD's recommended brand of light soy is on sale at that mkt for $1. I'll pull LoP and RC as well to see if those books have photos this doesn't.
re: Breadcrumbs
When I first got the book, BC, way back in June 2012, I took the book with me to the Asian market. The clerks there were then able to not only see what I wanted when I pointed to a picture but could read the Chinese characters and know exactly. They thought I was brilliant. Hahahaha...
re: Gio
Lately, I've gone to the market, taken photos of the various packages and jars (close-ups of all of the labels, both the front and then the ingredient lists on the back or side), then come home and compare them to what she says in the book. It takes me a couple of rounds to shop, but I haven't found the folks at our local Asian markets in a position to be reliably helpful. I think the staff is mostly Southeast Asian rather than Chinese.
Apparently I am in my own little world these days because I missed both the nomination and voting threads for March. When EGOR was selected I immediately ordered it from my library. Imagine my frustration when I got the book home today and realized it was a different EGOR (by Ellyn Blonder). Oy!
So now I feel compelled to buy it, but here's my question for the group: If I am only going to own one Fuchia Dunlop book, (I presently own none), is this the one to get? Discuss....
re: dkennedy
I'm the absolutely Last person in the world who should answer your question beacuse I love all three that I own; Land of Plenty, Revolutionary Chinese Cooking, and Every Grain of Rice. Each is a little different from the others and each has it's own focus. EGOR is more or less what Chinese home cooks would make in the privacy of his or her own kitchen and is vegetable based although there are meat, poultry, and seafood recipes . LOP introduced us to Szchuanese cooking... very spicy with that Ma La element from the Szechuan peppercorns. . RCC is Huanese which is based on bold, spicy flavors. Perhaps a quick read from the correct library copies is in order for you, plus our Dunlop archived threads.
re: Allegra_K
Yep, you need all three. Plus her memoir. HA! I haven't actually cooked from her memoir, so I guess I shouldn't recommend it on that basis, but the first 2/3'rds or so is a great read. (Last third gets a little tedious). You can check her memoir out from the library.
The reference sections of all 3 of her (non-memoir) books are very helpful and the recipes from LOP and RC are fabulous (I haven't cooked anything from EGOR yet, so I cannot comment). EGOR does appear to be have some duplication of recipes from the other books, smacked cucumber, gong bao chicken, dan dan noodles, mapo tofu, etc. but I think (and I'm not completely sure) that the recipes in EGOR are slightly different. EGOR seems more vegetarian focused to me, but I could just be making that up.
Not only do I have all three, I'm wondering if I need both the US and the UK versions of all three! I hate to miss out on anything... Long story, but my (U.S.-version) copies of RC & LOP are badly water-damaged. If I replace them (and I use them enough that I could easily justify doing so), I was thinking I would replace them with UK versions. But, then I'd keep them all!
re: dkennedy
Oh dear, I warned against that "same title" problem right here in these pages! http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/8912...
Oh well. Does the "wrong" book look any good?I see that some of the recipes from Land of Plenty are repeated in EGOR -- does anyone know if it's a big percentage?
re: Gio
When you say, "not one was a duplicate", do you mean the recipes aren't identical to the ones that appeared in her previous books or do you mean the recipes were for entirely different dishes? Just off the top of my head (and as I mentioned above, sorry to repeat myself) I know there is some overlap in the dishes, smacked cukes, mapo tofu, dan dan noodles, gong bao chicken, etc., but I know that in some cases the recipes are slightly different (or different variations) and others I haven't had a chance to compare.
Funnily enough, I noticed that on Eat Your Books new cookbook roundup for February, they refer to EGOR as a "Compendium of old and new Dunlop recipes - nicely packaged and illustrated. "
re: dkennedy
I was going to say, though, that of LOP and RC, I think I have a slight preference for LOP, but I think that's because I have a preference for Sichuan cuisine, not necessarily because the book or the recipes are necessarily any better. One thing I will say about her first two books vs. EGOR is that they do seem to have a lot more history about the recipes and their place in the culture. I loved just reading through the headnotes in RC and LOP... I don't feel compelled to snuggle up with EGOR in the same way.
EGOR seems to be more for day to day cooking. The recipes just seem a little less involved to me... She talks about "magic ingredients" that pack a lot of flavor, much in the same way an Italian author might recommend using the very best parm cheese or prosciutto to add flavor or in the way Medrich used ingredients in Pure Dessert. Maybe you don't need to have a zillion ingredients in a dish if you have one exceptionally tasty one...
re: dkennedy
I like LOP the best (by a slim margin). It's Dunlop's speciality since she studied in Chengdu and haunted many restaurants. It also has the best index with both Chinese and English so you can look up the dish both ways. I find both the RCC and EGOR indexes to be highly frustrating.
As for ease and convenience for making daily meals. They are all about the same. As long as you have the ingredients, the meals come together quickly.
re: beetlebug
Thanks for all the input. It is as I feared, I need them all. Not sure if I am going to buy them. Will have to hit Barnes and Noble this weekend to page through them. I don't do a lot of Asian cooking, I am not sure why. I do stir fry quite a bit. And I already own more than a reasonable amount of Chinese Cookbooks, though none that focus on a particular region.
I have resisted buying most of the other Asian inspired COTM but since this is the third one of Fuscia Dunlop's to get such rave reviews, I really feel like I am missing out. What to do?
re: The Dairy Queen
Here's a link to EYB's listing of FD recipes that are available online: http://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/r...
Of course, these don't give you access to the wonderful ingredient and technique glossaries the books have, but it might be a way to at least "test drive" some recipes.
I'll bet a lot more of the recipes are online if you find titles of dishes that sound appealing to you in EYB, then search on them...
re: The Dairy Queen
I am not a big fan of using online recipes. I really like the feel of a book in my hand and reading all the extras - the background, tips, and anecdotes. If I am going to skip this month's selection, it will be because the book doesn't inspire me. If the book makes a good read, setting aside the recipes, it will be enough to sway me into adding it to my collection.
re: dkennedy
Yeah, I feel the same way, actually, and I think it might be particularly true for these books of Dunlop's where the ingredient glossary is so important and the stories (in LOP and RC) are so delightful.
I like to collect online recipes in pepperplate for books I already own. I know it's strange to need both the book and online recipes, but it just helps me plan my meals from the office or wherever I happen to be. And share them with others, including my husband when we're trying to decide what's for dinner or if I need to send him shopping.
Honestly, I am such a fan of Dunlop's books that I would tell you to go ahead and buy EGOR so you can participate this month. Also, it's a little broader than the other two in terms of the regions it covers. If you love it, and I am sure you will, you can gradually acquire the other two if you want to dive in deeper.
During Dunlop month 5 years ago, many people cooked from either LOP or RC, but eventually (even years later) acquired the other.
LOP is still my favorite, but I have the feelingI will be cooking from EGOR more these days due to my need to simplify my life a little.
re: dkennedy
My copy just came in the mail and any misgivings I had about adding another book to my collection evaporated as soon as I cracked the spine. I am going to enjoy this one so thanks for encouraging me.
Once I have a chance to read through it I will reread this thread to absorb all the sage advice.
Here's a fun piece on shopping w/FD in NYC Chinatown. Be sure to click on the slide show.
re: lilham
No, I just saw the hair moss in the slide show about the shopping trip. Interesting info here:
Explains why it's associated with money, and even a health warning!-
re: blue room
Did you see the health effect section? I think you aren't missing anything for not cooking it :)
A research team from the biochemistry department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong said that international research has shown that Fat choy, besides having no nutritional value, has also been found to contain Beta-methylamino L-alanine (BMAA), a toxic amino acid that could affect the normal functions of nerve cells. Professor Chan King-ming of the team told the media that eating Fat choy could lead to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and dementia.
Here's some online recipes:
Pock-marked old woman's tofu recipe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyl...RED-BRAISED PORK
http://metro.co.uk/2012/06/12/fuchsia-dunlop-every-grain-of-rice-cookbook-review-464804/Here are four from the "Telegraph": Smacked cucumber in garlicky sauce, Sichuanese green soy bean salad, Gong bao chicken with peanuts, Blanched choy sum with sizzling oil
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/9271997/Everyday-Chinese-cooking-alchemy-on-a-plate.htmlHere's Chef Chen Dailu's Spicy Sesame Noodles:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2013/02/fuchsia_dunlop_every_grain_ric.php?page=2Scroll down past the interview and you'll find links to three recipes on Epicurious: Red-Braised Pork, Braised Trout in Chilli Bean Sauce, Sichuanese Wontons in Chilli Oil Sauce
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wice-Cooked Swiss Chard (Hui Gua Niu Pi CaiCold Chicken with a Spicy Sichuanese Sauce (Liang Ban Ji)
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Thank you so much, GG, for this compilation of recipe links. I can't buy the book at the moment, because we're saving for a holiday (walked past the cookbook shop yesterday without even looking at the window! I really do astonish myself, haha) so I'll be keen to try these recipes.
Meanwhile, although my local library doesn't even have EGOR on order yet (I will fill in the request form, but experience suggests it will take a long time for them to order & stock it) they DO have Fuchsia Dunlop's memoir "Shark Fin and Sichuan Pepper" which is so marvellously well-written, entertaining and utterly absorbing. One of the best food memoirs I've read in ages. Highly recommended if you haven't read it already (and yes, there are some recipes!)
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I have the US version of LOP & RC, but the UK version of EGOR, which I got right after it came out in the UK because it wasn't available in the U.S. Is there anything to be gained by my acquiring the US version of EGOR?
I'm comfortable with my UK version in the sense that I know groundnut oil is peanut oil, and aubergines are eggplants, etc., but I was wondering if the US version had any specific-to-the-US recommendations for stocking the pantry (ie., different brand names) or anything like that.
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I think it's worth noting that 10.3 has a built in VNC server that's activated in System Preferences -> Sharing -> Apple Remote Desktop -> Access Privileges -> VNC Viewers may control screen with password. This especially saves work when helping someone troubleshoot as it requires no installation. Someone at MacOSXHints also noted that it's one of the only Mac VNC servers to support dual displays. |
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Lawrence Taylor was born on February 4, 1959 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He entered the NFL draft in 1981 and was the second overall pick, selected by the New York Giants. During his 13-year career, he was named an All-Pro six times (1981–1987) and made 10 Pro Bowl appearances (1981–1990 seasons). He was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
"I used to always say when I went on the football field, 'You know I'm the best player out here on this field.' Is that being cocky? Maybe it is."
Early Career
Lawrence Taylor, a ground-breaking NFL linebacker known for his size and speed, was born Lawrence Julius Taylor on February 4, 1955, in Williamsburg, Virginia. A late bloomer, he didn't start playing football until his junior year at Lafayette High School.
As a result, he was not highly recruited and eventually landed at the University of North Carolina. There, Taylor, who earned the nickname "Godzilla," quickly began to terrorize opposing quarterbacks. His speed, size (6'4'', 240 pounds), and fury made him an almost unstoppable weapon and in the 1981 draft, the New York Giants selected Taylor with the No. 2 overall pick.
As a pro, Taylor quickly redefined the outside linebacker position, collecting nine sacks his rookie year, the first his of 10 straight Pro Bowl seasons. That same year, Taylor became the first rookie to win the league's "Defensive Player of the Year" title. He won the honor two more times, in 1982 and 1986.
The 1986 season stands out as Taylor's finest. That year he finished with 20.5 sacks and 105 tackles, making him the first defensive player in 15 years to be named the NFL's MVP. In 1995, Taylor was named to the NFL's Anniversary All-Time Team.
Taylor's toughness became the stuff of legend. During one regular season game, the Giants' medical staff had to hide Taylor's helmet in order to prevent the recently concussed linebacker from reentering the contest. In another game, Taylor played through torn shoulder ligaments and a detached pectoral muscle to lead the team to victory.
In addition to his 10 Pro Bowl appearances, Taylor's 13-year career saw him earn six All-Pro nods and two Super Bowl titles (1987 and 1991). He was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
Troubled Life
Taylor matched his on-the-field exploits with off-the-field problems. Cocaine and crack use led to a failed NFL drug test and, subsequently, a 30-day suspension from football.
Trouble continued to plague Taylor following his retirement after the 1993 season. In 1996, South Carolina police arrested the retired star for buying crack.
Despite getting off of drugs, Taylor continued to make headlines. In November 2009, Florida police charged Taylor with leaving the scene of an accident. The following year, the retired linebacker was arrested in New York, and charged with third-degree rape and soliciting prostitution in a case involving a 16-year-old girl.
In January 2011, Taylor pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors that required him to register as a sex offender.
Taylor, who is the father of four children, resides in Florida.
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A Friendly Artificial Intelligence or FAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) that has a positive rather than negative effect on humanity. Friendly AI also refers to the field of knowledge required to build such an AI. This term particularly applies to AIs which have the potential to significantly impact humanity, such as those with intelligence comparable to or exceeding that of humans ("superintelligence"; see strong AI and technological singularity). This specific term was coined by Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute as a technical term distinct from the everyday meaning of the word "friendly"; however, the concern is much older.
Goals and definitions of Friendly AI[edit]
Many experts have argued that AI systems with goals that are not perfectly identical to or very closely aligned with human ethics are intrinsically dangerous unless extreme measures are taken to ensure the safety of humanity. The roots of these concerns are very old: as Kevin LaGrandeur claims in his work,[1] the dangers specific to AI can be seen in ancient literature concerning artificial humanoid servants such as the golem, or the proto-robots of Gerbert of Aurillac and Roger Bacon. In those stories, the extreme intelligence and power of these humanoid creations clash with their status as slaves (which by nature are seen as sub-human), and cause disastrous conflict. Closer to the present, Ryszard Michalski, one of the pioneers of Machine Learning, taught his Ph.D. students decades ago that any truly alien mind, to include machine minds, was unknowable and therefore dangerous to humans. More recently, Eliezer Yudkowsky has called for the creation of "Friendly AI" to mitigate the existential threat of hostile intelligences. Steve Omohundro argues that all advanced AI systems will, unless explicitly counteracted, exhibit a number of basic drives/tendencies/desires because of the intrinsic nature of goal-driven systems and that these drives will, "without special precautions", cause the AI to act in ways that range from the disobedient to the dangerously unethical. Finally, Alex Wissner-Gross argues that AIs driven to maximize their future freedom of action (or causal path entropy) might be considered friendly if their planning horizon is longer than a certain threshold, and unfriendly if their planning horizon is shorter than that threshold.[2][3]
According to the proponents of Friendliness, the goals of future AIs will be more arbitrary and alien than commonly depicted in science fiction and earlier futurist speculation, in which AIs are often anthropomorphised and assumed to share universal human modes of thought. Because AI is not guaranteed to see the "obvious" aspects of morality and sensibility that most humans see so effortlessly, the theory goes, AIs with intelligences or at least physical capabilities greater than our own may concern themselves with endeavours that humans would see as pointless or even laughably bizarre. One example Yudkowsky provides is that of an AI initially designed to solve the Riemann hypothesis, which, upon being upgraded or upgrading itself with superhuman intelligence, tries to develop molecular nanotechnology because it wants to convert all matter in the Solar System into computing material to solve the problem, killing the humans who asked the question. For humans, this would seem ridiculously absurd, but as Friendliness theory stresses, this is only because we evolved to have certain instinctive sensibilities which an artificial intelligence, not sharing our evolutionary history, may not necessarily comprehend unless we design it to.
Friendliness proponents stress less the danger of superhuman AIs that actively seek to harm humans, but more of AIs that are disastrously indifferent to them. Superintelligent AIs may be harmful to humans if steps are not taken to specifically design them to be benevolent. Doing so effectively is the primary goal of Friendly AI. Designing an AI, whether deliberately or semi-deliberately, without such "Friendliness safeguards", would therefore be seen as highly immoral, especially if the AI could engage in recursive self-improvement, potentially leading to a significant power concentration.
This belief that human goals are so arbitrary derives heavily from modern advances in evolutionary psychology. Friendliness theory claims that most AI speculation is clouded by analogies between AIs and humans, and assumptions that all possible minds must exhibit characteristics that are actually psychological adaptations that exist in humans (and other animals) only because they were once beneficial and perpetuated by natural selection. This idea is expanded on greatly in section two of Yudkowsky's Creating Friendly AI, "Beyond anthropomorphism".
Many supporters of FAI speculate that an AI able to reprogram and improve itself, Seed AI, is likely to create a huge power disparity between itself and statically intelligent human minds; that its ability to enhance itself would very quickly outpace the human ability to exercise any meaningful control over it. While many doubt such scenarios are likely, if they were to occur, it would be important for AI to act benevolently towards humans. As Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom puts it:
- "Basically we should assume that a 'superintelligence' would be able to achieve whatever goals it has. Therefore, it is extremely important that the goals we endow it with, and its entire motivation system, is 'human friendly.'"
It is important to stress that Yudkowsky's Friendliness Theory is very different from ideas relating to the concept that AIs may be made safe by including specifications or strictures into their programming or hardware architecture, often exemplified by Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which would, in principle, force a machine to do nothing which might harm a human, or destroy it if it does attempt to do so. Friendliness Theory rather holds that the inclusion of such laws would be futile, because no matter how such laws are phrased or described, a truly intelligent machine with genuine (human-level or greater) creativity and resourcefulness could potentially design infinitely many ways of circumventing such laws, no matter how broadly or narrowly defined they were, or otherwise how categorically comprehensive they were formulated to be.
Rather, Yudkowsky's Friendliness Theory relates, through the fields of biopsychology, that if a truly intelligent mind feels motivated to carry out some function, the result of which would violate some constraint imposed against it, then given enough time and resources, it will develop methods of defeating all such constraints (as humans have done repeatedly throughout the history of technological civilization). Therefore, the appropriate response to the threat posed by such intelligence, is to attempt to ensure that such intelligent minds specifically feel motivated to not harm other intelligent minds (in any sense of the word "harm"), and to that end will deploy their resources towards devising better methods of keeping them from harm. In this scenario, an AI would be free to murder, injure, or enslave a human being, but it would strongly desire not to do so and would only do so if it judged, according to that same desire, that some vastly greater good to that human or to human beings in general would result (though this particular idea is explored in Asimov's Robot series stories, via the Zeroth Law). Therefore, an AI designed with Friendliness safeguards would do everything in its power to ensure humans do not come to "harm", and to ensure that any other AIs that are built would also want humans not to come to harm, and to ensure that any upgraded or modified AIs, whether itself or others, would also never want humans to come to harm - it would try to minimize the harm done to all intelligent minds in perpetuity. As Yudkowsky puts it:
- "Gandhi does not want to commit murder, and does not want to modify himself to commit murder."
Requirements for FAI and effective FAI[edit]
The requirements for FAI to be effective, both internally, to protect humanity against unintended consequence of the AI in question and externally to protect against other non-FAIs arising from whatever source are:
- Friendliness - that an AI feel sympathetic towards humanity and all life, and seek for their best interests
- Conservation of Friendliness - that an AI must desire to pass on its value system to all of its offspring and inculcate its values into others of its kind
- Intelligence - that an AI be smart enough to see how it might engage in altruistic behaviour to the greatest degree of equality, so that it is not kind to some but more cruel to others as a consequence, and to balance interests effectively
- Self-improvement - that an AI feel a sense of longing and striving for improvement both of itself and of all life as part of the consideration of wealth, while respecting and sympathising with the informed choices of lesser intellects not to improve themselves
- First mover advantage - the first goal-driven general self-improving AI "wins" in the memetic sense, because it is powerful enough to prevent any other AI emerging, which might compete with its own goals.
Promotion and support[edit]
Promoting Friendly AI is one of the primary goals of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, along with obtaining funding for, and ultimately creating a seed AI program implementing the ideas of Friendliness theory.
Several notable futurists have voiced support for Friendly AI, including author and inventor Raymond Kurzweil, medical life-extension advocate Aubrey de Grey, and World Transhumanist Association co-founder (with David Pearce) Nick Bostrom.[citation needed]
Coherent Extrapolated Volition[edit]
Yudkowsky advances the Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) model. According to him our coherent extrapolated volition is our choices and the actions we would collectively take if "we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, and had grown up closer together."[4]
Rather than a Friendly AI being designed directly by human programmers, it is to be designed by a seed AI programmed to first study human nature and then produce the AI which humanity would want, given sufficient time and insight to arrive at a satisfactory answer.[4] The appeal to an objective though contingent human nature (perhaps expressed, for mathematical purposes, in the form of a utility function or other decision-theoretic formalism), as providing the ultimate criterion of "Friendliness", is an answer to the meta-ethical problem of defining an objective morality; extrapolated volition is intended to be what humanity objectively would want, all things considered, but it can only be defined relative to the psychological and cognitive qualities of present-day, unextrapolated humanity.
Making the CEV concept precise enough to serve as a formal program specification is part of the research agenda of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.[5]
Other researchers [6] believe, however, that the collective will of humanity will not converge to a single coherent set of goals.
One notable critic of Friendliness theory is Bill Hibbard, author of Super-Intelligent Machines, who considers the theory incomplete. Hibbard writes there should be broader political involvement in the design of AI and AI morality. He also believes that initially seed AI could only be created by powerful private sector interests (a view not shared by Yudkowsky), and that multinational corporations and the like would have no incentive to implement Friendliness theory.
In his criticism of the Singularity Institute's 2001 Friendly AI guidelines, he suggests an AI goal architecture in which human happiness is determined by human behaviors indicating happiness: "Any artifact implementing 'learning' [...] must have 'human happiness' as its only initial reinforcement value [...] and 'human happiness' values are produced by an algorithm produced by supervised learning, to recognize happiness in human facial expressions, voices and body language, as trained by human behavior experts." Yudkowsky later criticized this proposal by remarking that such values would be better satisfied by filling the Solar System with microscopic smiling mannequins than by making existing humans happier.[7]
Ben Goertzel, an artificial general intelligence researcher, believes that Friendly AI cannot be solved with current human knowledge. In the past he has stated that he does not believe mathematically proven Friendliness to be possible. In 2010 Goertzel favored formulating a theory of AI ethics "based on a combination of conceptual and experimental-data considerations" by "[building and studying] early-stage AGI systems empirically, with a focus on their ethics as well as their cognition".[8] As of 2011 he proposes to build an "AI Nanny" system "whose job it is to protect us from ourselves and our technology – not forever, but just for a while, while we work on the hard problem of creating a Friendly Singularity."[9]
Adam Keiper and Ari N. Schulman, editors of the technology journal The New Atlantis, argue that it will be impossible to ever guarantee "friendly" behavior in AIs because problems of ethical complexity will not yield to software advances or increases in computing power. In particular, they criticize Yudkowsky's definition of Friendliness, noting a variety of situations (such as hostage scenarios) in which it would dictate that a Friendly AI should simultaneously take conflicting or opposite actions. They write that the utilitarian calculi upon which Friendly AI theories are based work "only when one has not only great powers of prediction about the likelihood of myriad possible outcomes, but certainty and consensus on how one values the different outcomes. Yet it is precisely the debate over just what those valuations should be that is the stuff of moral inquiry.... Simply picking certain outcomes — like [Yudkowsky's criteria of] pain, death, bodily alteration, and violation of personal environment — and asserting them as absolute moral wrongs does nothing to resolve the difficulty of ethical dilemmas in which they are pitted against each other."[10]
Stefan Pernar argues along the lines of Meno's paradox against the usefulness of Yudkowsky's approach by pointing out that attempting to solve the FAI problem is either pointless or hopeless depending on whether one assumes a universe that exhibits moral realism or not. In the former case a transhuman AI would independently reason itself into the proper goal system and assuming the latter, designing a friendly AI would be futile to begin with since morals can not be reasoned about.[11]
See also[edit]
- Ethics of artificial intelligence
- Machine ethics
- Seed AI - a theory related to Friendly AI
- Singularitarianism - a moral philosophy advocated by proponents of Friendly AI
- Technological singularity
Further reading[edit]
- Yudkowsky, E. Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk. In Global Catastrophic Risks, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Discusses Artificial Intelligence from the perspective of Existential risk, introducing the term "Friendly AI". In particular, Sections 1-4 give background to the definition of Friendly AI in Section 5. Section 6 gives two classes of mistakes (technical and philosophical) which would both lead to the accidental creation of non-Friendly AIs. Sections 7-13 discuss further related issues.
- Omohundro, S. 2008 The Basic AI Drives Appeared in AGI-08 - Proceedings of the First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
- ^ Kevin LaGrandeur. "The Persistent Peril of the Artificial Slave". Science Fiction Studies. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
- ^ How Skynet Might Emerge From Simple Physics, io9, Published 2013-04-26.
- ^ A. D. Wissner-Gross, "Causal entropic forces", Physical Review Letters 110, 168702 (2013).
- ^ a b "Coherent Extrapolated Volition". Singinst.org. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ "Research Areas | Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence". Singinst.org. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
- ^ Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition
- ^ Eliezer Yudkowsky (2003-05-29). "Re: SIAI's flawed friendliness analysis". Shock Level 4 mailing list. http://www.sl4.org/archive/0305/6846.html. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
- ^ Ben Goertzel (2010-10-29). "The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)". The Multiverse According to Ben. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
- ^ Ben Goertzel. "Does Humanity Need an AI Nanny?". H+ Magazine. Retrieved 2011-08-17.
- ^ Adam Keiper and Ari N. Schulman. "The Problem with 'Friendly' Artificial Intelligence". The New Atlantis. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
- ^ Stefan Pernar. "Less is More – or: the sorry state of AI friendliness discourse". Retrieved 2012-02-06.
External links[edit]
- Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence by Nick Bostrom
- What is Friendly AI? — A brief explanation of Friendly AI by the Singularity Institute.
- SIAI Guidelines on Friendly AI — The Singularity Institute's Official Guidelines
- Creating Friendly AI — A near book-length explanation from the SIAI
- Critique of the SIAI Guidelines on Friendly AI — by Bill Hibbard
- Commentary on SIAI's Guidelines on Friendly AI — by Peter Voss.
- The Problem with 'Friendly' Artificial Intelligence — On the motives for and impossibility of FAI; by Adam Keiper and Ari N. Schulman.


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