rachelmanija: (Book Fix)rachelmanija ([personal profile] rachelmanija) wrote,
@ 2011-09-03 05:20 pm UTC
Entry tags:book recs, fun with polls
I brought some books with me, and also poked through the parents' library, which turned up some oddities. Please vote for whatever you think will be either good, or produce an amusing review.

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[identity profile] vom-marlowe.livejournal.com
2011-09-04 01:55 am UTC (link)
I'm super curious about the acorns!!

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[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
2011-09-04 02:49 am UTC (link)
Yay, a vote for the acorns book!

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[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
2011-09-04 07:21 pm UTC (link)
Acorn!

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[identity profile] thomasyan.livejournal.com
2011-09-04 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Me, too! I remember once in elementary school a classmate's mother brought in something cooked with acorns, but I don't remember if I tried it or not. And then Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower got me curious about acorn again. I don't remember where I heard that it is a pain to prepare, to remove the tannins (?) so that it isn't crazy bitter. Possibly that was the classmate's mother, and I think it was before I read Sower. I do see acorns sold at H-Mart, a Korean supermarket.

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[identity profile] jinian.livejournal.com
2011-09-04 05:10 pm UTC (link)
You just have to soak them in a couple changes of water for a couple days. Once that's done, they taste approximately like starch. Maybe the Korean recipes are more interesting than the random European-style breadstuffs we tried putting them in.

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