{"id":241,"date":"2015-06-04T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=241"},"modified":"2015-06-04T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:22:50","slug":"this-is-just-to-say-tomato-and-white-pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/06\/04\/this-is-just-to-say-tomato-and-white-pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Just To Say: Tomato and White Pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;ve felt guilty about not using enough white pepper. I first learned about white pepper from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Frankies-Spuntino-Kitchen-Companion-Cooking\/dp\/1579654150\">The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion &#038; Cooking Manual<\/a>, which talks about using that instead of black pepper because of their French culinary this or that (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chow.com\/food-news\/138263\/whats-the-difference-between-black-and-white-pepper\/\">a partial explanation here<\/a>). White pepper has a weird, specific flavor that sort of reminds you of a closet but will also be immediately recognizable if you eat Chinese food. I&#8217;ve wanted to appreciate it. I&#8217;ve forced myself to use it. I&#8217;m not sure I always like it.<\/p>\n<p>But then I had this piece-of-shit out-of-season takeout salad tomato the other day &#8212; the kind that Jen would never touch and which she usually throws away. I was just goofing around with and decided to eat it &#8212; dutifully using white pepper, of course &#8212; and, holy moly, the flavors worked really well together. I googled it to see if I could see why and couldn&#8217;t find anything, so then I saved this draft and forgot about it. Anyway, it&#8217;s really good. If anyone can explain it, let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, I&#8217;ve felt guilty about not using enough white pepper. I first learned about white pepper from The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion &#038; Cooking Manual, which talks about using that instead of black pepper because of their French culinary this or that (a partial explanation here). White pepper has a weird, specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[158,159,160],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-hey-this-actually-tasted-pretty-good","tag-tomato","tag-white-pepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}