Not wild about Worcestershire sauce, but I keep a bottle around for hamburgers and the like Still keep hot sauce. I used to carry a bottle of hot sauce in my field jacket pocket, because I've found you can eat any damned thing with enough hot sauce on it, and some folks think the damndest things are "food". So, hot sauce can often help some of that crap go down and stay there.
There's a YouTube foodie channel that has an extensive treatment of the history of garum, and after watching it, I've decided that garum will never, ever find it's way into my stomach. Might be ok on roadkill, if the roadkill is old enough and mummified enough. They would seem to suit one another.
Soy sauce is yet another fermented condiment that is over 2000 years old, originally coming from China around 200 BC. I keep it around because it's about the only thing I can think of that makes rice edible by giving it some kind of flavor. Pretty simple stuff - soy bean paste and an equal amount of wheat or barley, salt,and water, all fermented with one of two species of fungus/ mold. The hardest part is getting the right fungus or mold to ferment it with.
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There's a YouTube foodie channel that has an extensive treatment of the history of garum, and after watching it, I've decided that garum will never, ever find it's way into my stomach. Might be ok on roadkill, if the roadkill is old enough and mummified enough. They would seem to suit one another.
Soy sauce is yet another fermented condiment that is over 2000 years old, originally coming from China around 200 BC. I keep it around because it's about the only thing I can think of that makes rice edible by giving it some kind of flavor. Pretty simple stuff - soy bean paste and an equal amount of wheat or barley, salt,and water, all fermented with one of two species of fungus/ mold. The hardest part is getting the right fungus or mold to ferment it with.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake