World’s Earliest Pit Barbecue?

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  Remains of a 31,000 year-old mammoth and her calf have been discovered in excavations in the Czech Republic, reports Jiri Svoboda, a professor at the University of Brno.  The meats were cooked luau-style underground.  Svoboda said, “We found the heating stones still within the pit and around.”  He believes that the central roasting pit and the circle of boiling …

Am I a Food Elitist?

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A recent post entitled “How Restaurants Lose Customers,” here, generated the most number of page views and comments so far on the new SuperSite Fiery Front Page launched last September.  In one of the comments, John Marks criticizes the post, which of course is his right to do.  But I’m going to briefly discuss his objections. “What’s the problem? Restaurants …