Re: Avogadro vs Loschmidt vs Jeane Baptiste Perrin
Posted by
Russell Standish-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Notions-of-entropy-tp7584006p7584020.html
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:53:35PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
> Russel -
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> >Speaking of which, I have very fond memory of "avacodo's number" being
> >prepared at the table at a restaurant just outside Santa Fe that Andy
> >Wuensche took me to.
> That's gotta be Gabriel's (unless it was more than 20 years ago,
> then it was likely the same location then called Los Brazos?)...
>
> Does anyone else remember when this dish was presented in a
> traditional molcajete (bowl carved from basalt) rather than the ones
> of the same style now made of plastic? The trick, of course, was to
> line the bowl with lettuce to limit the otherwise large number of
> molecules of avocado wasted.
>
> I believe molcajetes were originally mortars (to be paired with a
> pestle-tejolete).
>
> I also just discovered (totally unrelated) that the seed or pit of
> the avocado is edible despite the high concentration of tannins...
> very much like acorn nuts.
>
Probably Gabriel's. It was 15 years ago. And still the best I've ever
tasted.
Cheers
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