[thechat] Recipe: Laab Kai (Thai hot n' sour chicken salad)
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Tue Oct 8 15:37:00 CDT 2002
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, javier velasco wrote:
> A bulbous black fungus (Ustilago maydis) that infects corn, producing
> silvery, swollen, pebblelike kernels.
Ah, so something similar (in concept if not taste) to noble rot in
grapes..?
Cheers
Martin
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