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Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expeditionby Scott Cookman
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"Absorbing.artfully narrat[es] a possible course of events in the expedition's demise, based on the one official note and bits of debris (including evidence of cannibalism) found by searchers sent to look for Franklin in the 1850s. Adventure readers will flock to this fine regaling of the enduring mystery surrounding the best-known disaster in Arctic exploration."--Booklist
"A great Victorian adventure story rediscovered and re-presented for a more enquiring time."--The Scotsman
"A vivid, sometimes harrowing chronicle of miscalculation and overweening Victorian pride in untried technology.a work of great compassion."--The Australian
It has been called the greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration. Led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, two state-of-the-art ships and 128 hand-picked men----the best and the brightest of the British empire----sailed from Greenland on July 12, 1845 in search of the elusive Northwest Passage. Fourteen days later, they were spotted for the last time by two whalers in Baffin Bay. What happened to these ships----and to the 129 men on board----has remained one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Drawing upon original research, Scott Cookman provides an unforgettable account of the ill-fated Franklin expedition, vividly reconstructing the lives of those touched by the voyage and its disaster. But, more importantly, he suggests a human culprit and presents a terrifying new explanation for what triggered the deaths of Franklin and all 128 of his men. This is a remarkable and shocking historical account of true-life suspense and intrigue.
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Although author Scott Cookman cannot rely on firsthand accounts, because few notes from the expedition were recovered, he follows a paper trail leading to "smoking guns." Using background documents and written accounts of parallel Arctic expeditions, Cookman pieces together a compelling account of what might lie behind this disaster: overconfidence, penny-pinching, a series of poor decisions and unforeseeable blunders, fraud, botulism, and, finally, the cannibalism of despair.
I recommend this book highly for students of history, science, and public health seeking to learn about what can go wrong on a supposedly well-planned mission of any kind. The volume is well written, although it occasionally gets bogged down in excessive detail. Yet, its clinical description of the preparation of what probably was poisoned food and the subsequent impact of that food on the crew is worth the nightmares the book may generate! Ice Blink is highly instructive as regards the pitfalls that inevitably come to plague the "best laid plans of mice and men." Highly Recommended, Grades 7-College, Teaching Professional, General Audience. REVIEWER: Warren Fish (Paul Revere Middle School)
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Chapter One
The Epitaphs
By Admiralty Order, 18 January 1854: It is directed that if they are not heard of previous to 31 March 1854, the Officers & Ships companies are to be removed from the Navy List & are to be considered as having died in the service. Wages are to be paid to their Relatives to that date; as of 1 April 1854, all books and papers are to be dispensed with.
Admiralty Order No. 263
The only thing Sir John Franklin left behind were two faded ship's muster books. He sent them back from Greenland on July 12, 1845, just before his entire expeditionthe largest, best-equipped England had ever sent in search of the Northwest Passagedisappeared in the Arctic.
By Admiralty regulation, the muster listed "the Names of all Persons forming the complement of the ships, with particulars." By twist of fate, this accounting proved the epitaph of Franklin and every man aboard.
William Orren's was typical. The paymaster simply listed him AB, or able-bodied seaman, aboard Franklin's flagship HMS Erebus. He was thirty-four that summer. He gave his birthplace as Chatham, Kent, near the mouth of the River Thames. He signed on with the expedition and appeared for duty the same dayMarch 19, 1845exactly two months before it sailed.
Orren was either eager to get back to sea or, more likely, to collect the higher pay the Royal Navy offered for "Discovery Service." His previous posting had been the Woolwich dockyards, whereskeleton crews manned a mothball fleet of ships laid up "in ordinary," or out of service. He'd been in the navy for fifteen years. His "first entry" was recorded at age nineteen, when he signed aboard the HMS Swan. He must've been a rather dull-witted fellow or happy being a simple jack tar, because in all those years he never advanced a grade in rank.
The muster book shows 16 shillings (worth about U.S. $55 in 1998 values) deducted from his pay for tobacco, slop (heavy) clothing, and a horsehair mattress. This wasn't much; an experienced sailor, his seabag must have been ready. Offsetting the deductions was two months' advance payl0 pounds and 4 shillings (about U.S. $688 today). At a time when a common laborer made 18 pounds a year ($1,210 U.S.), this was quite a windfall.
The paymaster counted the coins out to him at pay paradeten gold sovereigns and four silver shillingsand by tradition placed them on top of his outstretched cap. Knowing he was bound for three years in the Arctic, with no ports of call or chance to spend it, the money was probably gone before he wasmost of it gone on gambling, rounds of gin (a penny a glass), and prostitutes (sixpence for a "knee trembler" in an alley) before sailing.
Nothing more was ever heard of Able-Bodied Seaman Orren, or of Sir Franklin himself for that matter. Their namesand 127 otherswere checked off in the muster books in 1854. On each page, an Admiralty clerk repeatedly made the same notation: "See Memo in Red Ink on Muster Table." There the clerk inked a single sentence:
"Officers & Ships Co. are to be considered as having died in the service and their Wages are to be paid to their Relatives to 31 March 1854."
Thus the Admiralty closed the book on the Franklin Expeditionthe greatest disaster in the history of polar exploration and one that rocked Victorian England to its core. Franklin and the rest129 hand-picked officers and menwere written off with no more explanation. Indeed the Royal Navy, stunned by the dimensions of the catastrophe, had no explanation to offer. Its most advanced, expensive, and sophisticated technology had inexplicably failed; its finest, most qualified personnel had inexplicably failed. It was as if Apollo 11, confidently embarked for mankind's first lunar landing, had disappeared on the dark side of the moon.
The shock was devastating, the failure to find a reason for it humiliating. The navy simply closed ranks and officially, bureaucratically, put an end to the whole affair.
For the families of the men who perished, the "Wages to be paid to their Relatives" were little comfort. The men had been missing for nine years before the Admiralty reckoned them dead, during which their loved ones had been living on nothing but hope. As the clerk forcefully underlined, they would be compensated no longer.
The cause of the disaster was never determined.
The Franklin Expedition remains one of the most enduring mysteries in the annals of exploration. Somethingor someoneturned the greatest Arctic expedition of its time into the greatest Arctic tragedy of the age.
What, or more intriguingly, who was responsible will always be open to debate. But an answer to the expedition's fate lies, riddlelike, in its story.
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SCOTT COOKMAN is a nonfiction writer whose articles have appeared in such magazines as Field&Stream, Army, and America's Civil War. His "Man and Mission" videos, chronicling America's Mercury 7 astronauts, are the main attraction at the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at Cape Canaveral.
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STANLEY WILLIAM ALTMAN, Plaintiff,v.CAROLYN W. COLVIN, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY, Defendant.
Plaintiff filed an application for disability benefits, alleging disability as of May 30, 2010 as the result of mental and physical impairments. His claim was denied initially, and upon hearing before an ALJ. The Appeals Council subsequently denied his request for review. Plaintiff now appeals the Commissioner's decision. For the following reason, Plaintiff's Motion will be granted, and Defendant's denied, and this matter remanded for further proceedings.
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Judicial review of the Commissioner's final decisions on disability claims is provided by statute. 42 U.S.C. §§ 405(g) 6 and 1383(c)(3) 7. Section 405(g) permits a district court to review the transcripts and records upon which a determination of the Commissioner is based, and the court will review the record as a whole. See 5 U.S.C. §706. When reviewing a decision, the district court's role is limited to determining whether the record contains substantial evidence to support an ALJ's findings of fact. Burns v. Barnhart, 312 F.3d 113, 118 (3d Cir. 2002).
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A district court cannot conduct a de novo review of the Commissioner's decision, or re-weigh the evidence of record; the court can only judge the propriety of the decision with reference to the grounds invoked by the Commissioner when the decision was rendered. Palmer v. Apfel, 995 F.Supp. 549, 552 (E.D. Pa. 1998); S.E.C. v. Chenery Corp., 332 U.S. 194, 196 - 97, 67 S.Ct. 1575, 91 L.Ed. 1995 (1947). Otherwise stated, "I may not weigh the evidence or substitute my own conclusion for that of the ALJ. I must defer to the ALJ's evaluation of evidence, assessment of the credibility of witnesses, and reconciliation of conflicting expert opinions. If the ALJ's findings of fact are supported by substantial evidence, I am bound by those findings, even if I would have decided the factual inquiry differently." Brunson v. Astrue, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55457 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 14, 2011) (citations omitted).
Plaintiff contends, inter alia, that the ALJ erred in determining the appropriate weight to give the opinions of Dr. Scott, and in failing to discuss Plaintiff's treatment pursuant to SSR 96-7p..
Plaintiff first saw Dr. Scott, then a psychologist, in 2004, upon the referral of his attorney. Dr. Scott met with Plaintiff three times between June 16, 2004 and July 29, 2004, and diagnosed him with significant neuropsychological and psychiatric issues. Plaintiff later returned to Dr. Scott, now a neuropsychologist, on March 10, 2011. On April 16, 2011, Dr. Scott wrote an addendum to his July, 2004 report, regarding the 2011 visit. He also completed a Medical Assessment form. On all occasions, Dr. Scott opined that Plaintiff was totally disabled from working, and reiterated the seriousness of Plaintiff's condition.
It is well-established that an "ALJ may rely on lack of treatment, or the conservative nature of treatment, to make an adverse credibility finding, but only if the ALJ acknowledges and considers possible explanations for the course of treatment." Wilson v. Colvin, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114905 (M.D. Pa. Aug. 19, 2014). "[T]he adjudicator must not draw any inferences about an individual's symptoms and their functional effects from a failure to seek or pursue regular medical treatment without first considering any explanations that the individual may provide . . . ." SSR 96-7p. Courts often remand cases in which the ALJ's credibility analysis fails to address evidence that a claimant declined or failed to pursue more aggressive treatment due to lack of medical insurance. See, e.g., Kinney v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec., 244 F. Appx. 467, 470 (3d Cir. 2007); Sincavage v. Barnhart, 171 F. Appx. 924, 927 (3d Cir. 2006); Wilson, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114905; Henderson v. Astrue, 887 F.Supp.2d 617, 638-39 (W.D. Pa. 2012).
Here, I question the ALJ's treatment of both Dr. Scott's testimony and Plaintiff's credibility, as well as that of Plaintiff's wife. The ALJ discounted this evidence based, in part, on Plaintiff's limited medical treatment history. For example, although characterizing him as a treating source, the ALJ questioned Dr. Scott's opinion because counsel referred Plaintiff to Dr. Scott. The fact that the examination was not initiated by Plaintiff, but instead by his lawyer, gave the ALJ reason to question the report's authenticity. The ALJ also relied on the lack of medical treatment to discount Plaintiff's credibility. Plaintiff, however, testified at the hearing that he had not seen a doctor because he had "no money, " and had never had medical insurance. Here, in an otherwise thorough and well-thought out opinion, the ALJ did not refer to the reasons for Plaintiff's lack of medical treatment. Thus, it is not clear whether the ALJ considered and rejected, or merely ignored, Plaintiff's explanation.
Similarly, it is well-settled that a claimant's activities of daily living can be properly considered by an administrative law judge for the purpose of evaluating a claimant's credibility. The ALJ, however, should explain how a claimant's daily routine is inconsistent with the alleged impairments. See Wilson, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114905, at **35-36. Moreover, the ALJ's characterization of Plaintiff's activities must be accurate. Cf. Dougherty v. Astrue, 715 F.Supp.2d 572, 583 (D. Del. 2010).
Here, the ALJ relied on Plaintiff's activities of daily living to discount Dr. Scott's opinion, as well as Plaintiff's and his wife's credibility. It appears that the ALJ's recitation of those activities, however, were overstated. For example, Dr. Scott noted that Plaintiff is totally dependent on his wife; the ALJ found this statement inconsistent with Plaintiff's activities, because Plaintiff is "active" and watches his grandchildren. However, Plaintiff and his wife testified that he is never left alone with his grandchildren, never socializes, and will not attend events like family weddings or graduations – it is wholly unclear, on this record, what is meant by "active." The ALJ further stated that Plaintiff drives, takes his daughter to college daily, prepares simple meals, completes light household chores, shops, and is generally independent in bathing and dressing. The evidence presented at the hearing, however, was that Plaintiff's wife and daughter do the cooking, but if he "has to, " he will make a sandwich; he may take his wife or daughter to the grocery store, but won't go in if there are a lot of people.[1] While I am cognizant that I cannot second-guess the ALJ's credibility determinations, given that there is no medical opinion evidence that directly contradicts Dr. Scott's opinions, [2] these principles take on particular importance. It is likewise unclear how activities such as driving or vacuuming, under the circumstances and by way of example, are inconsistent with the anxiety and depression alleged.
As a final matter, Plaintiff contends that the ALJ's errors with respect to his limited treatment history, and with respect to Dr. Scott, resulted in a flawed RFC and a consequently flawed opinion from the vocational expert. This matter will be remanded so that the ALJ may consider or clarify the impact of Plaintiff's lack of insurance and financial resources and his activities of daily living, and their impact, if any, on credibility issues and the assessment of Dr. Scott's opinion. The ALJ, of course, is free to conduct any further investigation on remand, including an IME, that he deems necessary. At that time, the ALJ will have the opportunity to consider whether further analysis, if any, impacts the RFC and vocational evidence.
In conclusion, this matter will be remanded for further proceedings consistent with this Opinion. An appropriate Order follows.
AND NOW, this 23rd day of September, 2014, it is hereby ORDERED, ADJUDGED, and DECREED that Plaintiff's Motion is GRANTED, and Defendant's DENIED. This matter is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the foregoing Opinion.
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I received a pricelist from Cuben Fiber Corp, for Cuben fiber, with some true weights per smyd (7.125 sq ft).
I was considering making a 1 man tent with this, but not sure which might be the best fabric for that, or what the nomenclature (ie CT0.3E.08) below mean.
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It appears upon quickly reading through it that the Cuben fiber denoted as CT1K.08 is the most popular for backpacking applications.
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I have been using the CTO.6k.08 with good luck so far.
I have purchased all my tape from Quest and have an experimental roll of 3/8" wide and thin tape coming from Kite Studios to try out. In the Mid that I'm building and is about 75% complete it appears that the tape is aproximately 50% of the total weight now !!! Using LOTS of this stuff! Maybe too much ??Jun 11, 2007 at 10:16 pm #1392001
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I am in the process of making a one man tent. I can tell you it is insanely hard. The three dimensional closed shape makes every joint a nightmare. I have settled on making the tent body with panels of Nanoseeum mesh sown to a frame of Cuben (CT1K.08) I have tried both the tape from quest and some tape from kite studios. The tape from kite studios is transfer adhesive with no plastic film. It is just the adhesive making it much lighter. At ambient temperatures I don't see any strength difference so I am using the kite studio tape to joint the cuben/mesh panels together. The rainfly will be mostly taped. I have used Urethane based bond similar to that recommended by the guys at Cuben and this works great but is not practical for any but this simplest seams. The glue I have used is called Aquaseal and is sold for wetsuit repair.Jun 14, 2007 at 6:32 am #1392270
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CT = Cubic Tech, ie not sail cloth
CN = Cuben Fiber, ie sail cloth
That's mainly an internal accounting thing for them.
first number: amount of dyneema.
HB = High Bias, or double direction.
K, E, T, KM = Scrim Type.
Last number = scrim weight.
Don't worry about the scrim types. It doesn't matter unless you're planning to expose the thing to lots of salt water and sun.
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The team finished the 4.21 kilometre course with a point total of 196, bettering silver medalists Christ the King Secondary School of Georgetown by a mere four points. Christ the King had 200.
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MAINLAND authorities have confiscated a 170 million yuan (HK$158 million) commercial building in Beijing built by the Ministry of Water Resources from funds that should have been used for flood prevention.
Construction of the 28-storey building was halted when the scandal was uncovered last year. It would be sold at auction under orders from the State Council, or cabinet, according to Wenhui Daily. The Ministry of Water Resources had designed the building in the western outskirts for offices, a hotel and conference centre as well as restaurants.
The modern tower was built with misappropriated funds from the ministry and 11 of its regional offices or affiliated companies. The scam was uncovered in a review by the National Audit Office after the devastating floods along the Yangtze River and in northeast provinces in summer 1998.
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Jessica Robbins, Chris Cornell's alleged stalker, was arrested trying to enter the singer's Louisville concert Wednesday night.
Jessica Robbins, Chris Cornell's alleged stalker, was arrested trying to enter the singer's Louisville concert Wednesday night.
After failing to appear in federal court and removing the GPS monitor around her ankle, the FBI has obtained a warrant for her arrest.
Cornell will make his way to the U.S. in June with more dates scheduled through the next month.
The Soundgarden frontman penned a tribute to one of his musical heroes, the late David Bowie.
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Watch as Chris Cornell invites his 11-year-old daughter to duet with him on Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song.'
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Chris Cornell got soulful with a cover of the Prince classic, 'Nothing Compares 2 U.'
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One hundred calories' worth of Twinkies is not equivalent to 100 calories' worth of broccoli. Twinkies not only have fewer of the vitamins and minerals and other nutrients that are beneficial to us, but they're also digested very quickly in the body, and they stimulate the production of insulin, which encourages the storage of fats, especially around our waists. So the overconsumption of those processed foods sets us up for obesity.
Third, our constant 24-7 lifestyle. I told my kids — and they were shocked to hear this — there used to be a time when midnight came, and if you were watching TV, you'd see the national anthem, and then the television would go off. They couldn't believe it, and that's a metaphor for our 24-7 lifestyle. We're always on, and that can be stressful. And stress has to do with gaining weight, because the stress hormones that circulate constantly in our bodies cause us to gain weight — again, around the abdominal area.
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MG: There's this prevailing myth, whether people admit it or not, that African Americans are obese because we like being fat. There have been a number of debates about it, and I don't believe it's true. One study that really upset me was the one that said that black teen girls don't benefit as much from exercise as white teen girls do.
They measured [physical activity] using an accelerometer, which does tend to be relatively objective, but they only made measurements over three days, and they based the largest part of the comparison between the physical activity of black girls and white girls on their self-report, which is open for interpretation.
Then, there was no accounting for the quality of diet that each of these girls ate during the period during which they were being monitored, and as I just stated, diet has a lot to do with weight gain. In fact, there have been studies that have shown that 75 percent of weight gain or loss is dependent on our diet.
Finally, when the study authors said black girls don't benefit as much from exercise, there was a very narrow definition of "benefit." We don't only benefit from exercise with weight loss. We also benefit by obtaining better control of our blood pressure, our blood sugar and our cholesterol, all of which, if they're not under control, set us up for serious disease. And there are also mental-health benefits related to exercise.
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NEWARK - Heavy fog caused delays at Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday, creating headaches for thousands of travelers flying in and out of the Garden State.
The fog and clouds in New Jersey, combined with snow, ice, wind and frigid temperatures in other parts of the country, caused travel troubles for everyone.
Ann Rose, from Canada, had a difficult flight Thursday. "Low ceiling, clouds from 20,000 feet to 100 feet. Very dense and you couldn't see anything," she says. "They had us in holding pattern for a while."
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The Renaissance
Renaissance, or Revival of Learning, was a great movement in literature, art, architecture, science and human behavior that began in Italy in the 14th century, reached its peak in the 15th century and spread to the rest of Europe. It marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of modern Europe.
During the Middle Ages the works of many Latin and Greek writers were unknown, until the early Renaissance scholars began to study and copy manuscripts which had been neglected for centuries.
All educated people could read Latin, but Greek was little known; however, Greek scholars came to Italy in the 15th century and others fled there, bringing manuscripts with them, when the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453. But the Renaissance was much more than the rediscovery of classical literature and architecture.
It represented an upsurge of creative energy, of new ideas and new freedoms of thought in contrast to the fixed teachings of the Church and medieval philosophers. Men became interested in the world about them, in human nature (some writers are known as 'humanists'), in science, art and religion.
The Renaissance spirit of enquiry and criticism was one of the underlying causes of the Reformation.
Italian cities such as Florence, Milan, Padua and Venice were rich, and city life was freer and more civilized than in countries which were still mainly rural. Moreover, Italy had remained in closer touch with Greek and Roman ideas than the rest of Europe, and the Renaissance was aided by several popes who were more interested in worldly than spiritual matters. For these reasons, the New Learning first flowered in Italy; scholars translated classical works, libraries and universities were founded, Petrarch and Boccaccio in the 14th century wrote their poetry, marvelous churches and buildings were erected, and from the late 15th century artists like Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael Titian and many others painted their immortal pictures.
There were also gifted men like Brunelleschi the architect, and Donatello, the sculptor. Often an artist would excel in several branches of art and knowledge; Leonardo, the great all-rounder, excelled as a painter, philosopher, athlete, inventor, engineer and naturalist.
The Renaissance spread northwards. Holland and England produced the Humanists, Erasmus, Linacre, Colet and More; in France there was the poet Ronsard and the writers Rabelais and Montaigne, while in Spain Cervantes wrote Don Quixote (1605-1615). The outstanding Renaissance artists of Flanders and Germany were the Van Eycks, the Breughels, Durer and Holbein - who took his skill to England, where Henry VIII saw himself as a prince of many talents and where Renaissance literature flowered in the poems of Sidney and Spenser and, above all, in the plays of Shakespeare . It was not until the 17th century that Inigo Jones brought classical architecture to England.
Every branch of science was developed, biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy - in which Copernicus, Keppler and Galileo put forward new ideas - while medicine made progress that included Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.
The urge to ac quire knowledge and wealth caused men to set out on voyages of exploration, principally from Spain and Portugal and, later, from England and France. Thus the Renaissance widened man's horizons in every direction, producing ideas and achievements which profoundly affected his political , religious and cultural life.
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Nuoc Cham (Vietnamese Hot Sauce)
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 0 mins
This is one of my adopted recipes. Try it, it's fab!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon lime peel, minced
- 1⁄4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, crushed
- 2 teaspoons lime juice
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- Increase the amount of red pepper flakes to suit taste.
- Combine garlic, lime peel, and red pepper flakes then add lime juice, fish sauce, water, and sugar.
- Whisk until all ingredients are blended and sugar is dissolved.
- Will keep short periods if refrigerated.
- Serve: Used on vegetables, meats and fish by the Vietnamese.
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The proportions are a little different to my usual Vietnamese sauce, this is more lemony, and I like it. A little more subtle.
This is a very good recipe. I replace the sugar with a 1/2 teaspoon (give or take) of stevia. I add more red pepper flakes and a serrano to it for heat. It's very good. This is an excellent recipe.
Great recipe for Nuoc mam. Only change I made was to adjust heat level to taste (we like it hot) Served as a dip with spring rolls and was also great over steamed rice. Many uses for this!!


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