Words to live by:
Some deep species dont mature until they are 40 years old and then may live 240 years, Norse said. Such fish reproduce slowly, Heppell said for example while skipjack tuna may spawn every day in summer, deep-living orange roughy spawn only every two years.
Never eat anything that could be older than your grandmother, she said, quoting Milton Love of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
I could'a swore I read that in Leviticus one time.
Posted by: Buck on February 20, 2007 5:28 AMwell, this granny has 73 years and is two months into the five Tibetan Rites from The Fountain of Youth book by Peter Kelder / i have never felt so young again / no kidding / i am healthier and stronger than i was at 40 / maybe i will even "mature" as well as "ripen"
smile
Posted by: Katherine Hunter on February 20, 2007 10:52 AMNo more "orange roughy" for me!
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on February 20, 2007 12:31 PMSeventy-three is nothing. Hell, even I'm 73. And my father was 73 twenty-four years before he died. He credited moderate consumption of orange roughy for his longevity. (All right, I made that last part up. He wouldn't have known an orange roughy if one bit him in the gluteus maximus. One did, and he thought it was a rainbow trout.)
Posted by: Jerry Doolittle on February 20, 2007 2:04 PMAnd are you familiar with the geoduck?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam on February 22, 2007 1:23 AMNo, Martha, that's a new one to me. I'll pass on that, as well as on the orange roughy.
It is the time of year for piggy maw, though: hog's stomach stuffed with potatoes and sausage.
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on February 22, 2007 7:32 AMFeh.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam on February 22, 2007 8:20 PM'Never eat anything older than your grandmother.'
One of the only sentences I've ever read from which you could delete the words 'anything older than' and it would still make culinary and grammatical sense.
Posted by: Peter McGrath on February 23, 2007 11:55 AMGive us a few of the others, Peter.
Posted by: Fast Eddie on February 23, 2007 1:58 PM