THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, December 29, 1994 TAG: 9412280076
SECTION: FLAVOR PAGE: F2 EDITION: FINAL
COLUMN: Morsels
SOURCE: Ruth Fantasia
LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
YOU DON'T HAVE to be a mountain man to use Thomas Canino's new ``Mountain Man Cookbook.''
There's plenty of wild game in the flatlands of Hampton Roads to keep hunters cooking.
Canino, a Colorado hunter, wrote and published the book. It contains 100 recipes for deer, elk, rabbit, squirrel, pheasant and duck, according to John Lehndorff of Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
For a copy, send a $10 check to Mountain Man Cookbook, P.O. Box 3372, Englewood, Colo., 80155.
But don't expect a glitzy tome of full-color photos. This is a practical guide to cooking what you kill, and eliminating the gamey taste.
Pizza toppings
It's still easier to call for delivery. But if you prefer to make your own pizza, Contadina helps with it new line of Chunky Pizza Sauces.
The sauces - available in original, three-cheese and mushroom flavors - are in 14.5-ounce cans, enough for two pizzas. Each 1/4-cup serving of sauce contains 1 gram fat and about 30 calories. Each can costs about $1.09.
Now, if they would just make the crust.
Aging crystalware
If you've received gifts of lead crystal, the December issue of Food & Wine magazine says you can age new crystalware by keeping vinegar in it between parties.
The vinegar helps leach the surface lead out of decanters making the crystal safer to use, says the magazine. Just be sure not to use the vinegar.
Of course, alcoholic beverages will do the same thing, but it's much less expensive to throw away vinegar. by CNB