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The lyre is a distant relative of the modern day guitar, yet it’s not really considered the type of instrument a heavy metal band would want to play onstage, but maybe this morbid instrument will change their mind.

This is a lyre made from a human skull, as well as antelope horns, guts, skin and hair, and it’s probably the most metal instrument I’ve ever seen!

It dates back to the 19^th century, and is currently part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, at least until some extremely wealthy rock god snatches it up for their own wicked purposes...

-Via io9

Disclaimer: may not be scientifically accurate.

Pleathora of penises originally appeared on MyConfinedSpace NSFW on June 28, 2014.

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"Je Suis La Jeune Fille." "Yes, that's French they're speaking. But no, these children aren't French – they're American!" If you grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s, or watched children's TV programming from that era in the US or UK, no doubt you saw that commercial for Muzzy (formally titled Muzzy in Gondoland). The show was first produced by the BBC in 1986 to teach English as a second language, as seen in this playlist of five videos, and later expanded with Muzzy Comes Back in 1989 (six episode playlist). The shows were both translated in to French, German (playlist), Spanish (and the Spanish vocabulary builder), and Italian (Muzzy in Gondoland, Muzzy Comes Back).

Taxidermy is hotly contested in some circles, personally I’m an animal lover who also grew up admiring taxidermy works, but when the poor stuffed critter ends up looking like something that escaped from the island of Dr. Moreau it makes me want to reconsider my thoughts about taxidermy:

People will say “well, you gotta start somewhere”, but in the case of these horrifyingly bad taxidermy pieces maybe the amateur taxidermists should have started by making something out of fabric, rather than destroying an animal hide:

Now, with the help of some meme style lettering and a snappy slogan these terrible taxidermy monstrosities will live on forever as examples of what not to do when you're trying your hand at taxidermy!

-Via The Soup

One hundred years ago today, an age came to an end and a terrible war was spawned. On June 28, 1914, 20-year-old Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess of Hohenberg Sophie, in the city of Sarajevo. This triggered a diplomatic crisis which metastasized into the first World War.

Cracked asked readers to present them with items or concepts that many people perceive incorrectly, due to media or public misrepresentations. Chosen submissions were made into comparison graphics. Check these out and see if you agree with the readers' ideas. Read the full article to see all 20 common misconceptions here. Images: Cracked.com.

Mexico's narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrates the most extreme aspects of the country's drug war. The songs are filled with catchy, detailed narrations of beheadings, executions, coked-out nights, and a strangely consistent obsession with Buchanan's whiskey.

With lyrics like "We're bloddy and a little twisted / We love killing / Mass kidnappings are the way they should be done / All my crew with gold-plated AKs / Shooting up their bodies until they fall to pieces / A sharpened knife on hand for beheadings," the movimiento alterado—literally the "altered movement"—is more of a "we're-fucking-crazy-and-we-will-cut-you-up" movement.

The music scene originated in the old cartel citadel of Mexico's western Sinaloa state, and it's an open secret that most of the artists identified with the genre are tied to the local cartel.

VICE went to Mexico to talk to some of the genre's major producers and see whether they're as hard as their songs suggest.

Bobby Womack--one of the last surviving soul greats from the Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding generation--has died. Nicknamed "The Preacher" for his authoritative, church-trained voice and the way he introduced songs with long discourses on life, Womack never had the success of contemporaries like Marvin Gaye, Al Green or Otis Redding. For a good part of his career, he was better known as a songwriter and session musician.

But to the popular musicians of the day, Womack was indispensible. He recorded with, or wrote songs covered by, everyone from the Rolling Stones to Wilson Pickett to Sly Stone (Womack produced There's A Riot Goin' On) to the J. Geils Band.

Eventually, Womack's albums Communication (1971) and Understanding (1972) delivered enduring R&B hits, and in 1972 he provided the soundtrack for Barry Shear's blaxploitation movie Across 110th Street: the title track would prove to be his most popular single.

Bobby Womack was seventy.

The Womack Brothers - Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray

The Valentinos - It's All Over Now

If You Think You're Lonely Now

That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha

Woman's Gotta Have It

Across 110th Street (with Soul Train interview)

A rather comprehensive YouTube playlist

The Bravest Man in the Universe

The making of his latest album, The Bravest Man in the Universe

His induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and his performance at the ceremony.

For the first time, a troop of chimpanzees have been observed participating in a fad, a meme, or actually a fashion statement. The trend is to wear a blade of grass sticking out of one ear. It’s become a tradition among chimps of one troop in Zambia. This behavior was written up by Edwin van Leeuwen of the Max Planck Institute in the Netherlands. It started when a chimp named Julie put grass in one ear. Seven of the 11 chimps in her troop were soon wearing grass in one ear, and continued even after Julie’s death. There is no known advantage to grass in the ear, especially in just one ear.

To figure out if this was really a tradition, and not just chimpanzees sticking grass in their ears at random, van Leeuwen and his colleagues spent a year observing four chimp groups in Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust, a sanctuary in Zambia. Only one troop performed the grass-in-ear behavior, although all of the chimps lived in the same grassy territory. There’s no genetic or ecological factors, the scientists believe, that would account for this behavior -- only culture.

Lydia Luncz, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved with the research, agrees. This study shows how the chimpanzees who learned to put grass in their ears did so through the “natural transmission” of new behavior, she says.

This is how you do science, folks -a year of watching chimps to see if they stick grass in their ear. Let’s hope they were observing other behaviors as well. Van Leeuwen compares this grass-in-ear fad with human groups that wear earrings or a certain kind of hat. -via reddit

(Image credit: Leeuwen, et. al.)

Nunca entendí la costumbre norteamericana de comer galletas blandas, sin ese típico “crac” que antecede a la liberación de fragmentos de galletas de todos los tamaños por la boca. En todo caso, constituye una excepción gastronómica, porque a la mayoría de nosotros nos chifla la comida que cruje, que hace crac.

Lo crujiente resulta seductor para nuestro paladar porque denota frescura (como el de una zanahoria), y lo rancio, lo que está podrido o pasado, puede ponernos enfermos. Hemos evolucionado para decantarnos por las comidas duras y crujientes. Hasta cierto punto, comemos con nuestros oídos, por eso, por ejemplo, los fabricantes de chips cuidan tanto el ruido de sus patatas al quebrarse bajo nuestra mandíbula.

Según Van Vliet, un experto en el tema, a los seres humanos les gustan los alimentos que, al crujir, alcanzan alrededor de 90 o 100 decibelios. Si la gente come patatas pero se enmascara el ruido de la masticación en las frecuencias más altas, entonces ya no se percibe frescura, y se considera que las patatas están rancias.

Tal y como explica Mary Roach en su libro Glup:

La dureza y lo crujiente, en resumen, nos dice que la comida es “saludable”. Los imperios de comida de aperitivos han sabido sacar partido de este hecho, produciendo alimentos frescos y crujientes que nos resultan atractivos pero no son tan beneficiosos en términos de salud y supervivencia (…) Es una maravilla: una física sofisticada al servicio de la comida basura.

Foto | Kartoffelchips-1

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La noticia Nos encanta la comida que cruje fue publicada originalmente en Xatakaciencia por Sergio Parra.

The Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Hugo awards are the Triple Crown of science-fiction writing. If Ancillary Justice claims the Hugo, it will become the first novel to win all three. After years toiling in obscurity, Leckie's given up trying to wrap her mind around how quickly she and her gun-slinging, galaxy-traversing heroine, Breq, have climbed to critical and popular adoration.

[...]
Leckie's success — and the fact that it was achieved with a novel that not only has a strong female protagonist, but also refers to all of its characters, male or female, as "she" — comes at an interesting time. Barely a year ago the science-fiction community was tearing itself apart over sexism allegations. Seemingly in response, the 2013 Nebula Awards marked the first time in its nearly 50-year history that all of the winners were women.

The St Louis Riverfront Times takes a look at the success of local author Ann Leckie and what it means for science fiction as a whole. (print edition.)

Facebook scientists, having apparently become bored with optimizing advertising algorithms, are now running social science experiments on the users. Link to the actual paper. I assume they are already selling this to the advertisers as a way to alter "brand perceptions."

"Old school cool" are recent history's coolest kids, from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
For example this stylish, handsome 1940's swagger, which was found on this maternal family album.
All are taken from r/OldSchoolCool.
See all images on one page @ imgur.
And of course, an original source of The Cool Hall of Fame at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger

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Previously.

My Imaginary Friends: The Beauty YouTuber Economy

The descriptions are so exact that they are hypnotizing, but this minute attention is also countered by the hyperactive energy that is a prerequisite for beauty YouTube personalities. Hyperbole is the currency in these videos—beauty vloggers are obsessed with everything. "Kenra Platinum Finishing Spray is life-changing," Ingrid of the two million-subscriber channel MissGlamorazzi said recently, with a fervor no one who watches many product videos would bat an eye at. "There's something indescribable about this deodorant," London YouTuber essiebutton said in a favorites video. "It's an absolute joy to use." In a video about her favorite eyeshadow palettes, she said, "I genuinely feel like I could die if I don't get the Lorac Pro Palette."

But these women are not weird. They're not or nerdy or awkward. They're pretty, generic girls next door, wholesome basic bitches who are grossed out by feet and the word "moist." Many of them are covertly Christian, slipping Bible verses into the "About" sections of their channels. They're the quintessential Nice Girls Who Like Stuff, as a famous advertisement for Juicy Couture once put it. Their approachability is carefully engineered and purposeful; the chatty gal pal stock character is obviously a marketing ploy.

Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne “Bobby” Womack nació en Cleveland, Ohio, el 4 de marzo de 1944 y falleció el  27 de junio de 2014 según anunciaba su representante. Con una trayectoria musical de cinco décadas, fue un grandioso compositor, músico y cantante de R&B que empezó  cantando góspel y doo wop, y que interpretó soul, funk, rock and roll, o country.  En su carrera se pueden enumerar gran cantidad de éxitos como los temas  "Across 110th Street", "Lookin' for Love" o "It's All Over Now". En 2009 fue incluido en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll.

The Valentinos

Nacido en el seno de una familia de músicos, su madre tocaba el órgano en la iglesia y su padre era pastor eclesiástico y guitarrista. Con sus hermanos empezó cantando y tocando la guitarra por las iglesias con el nombre de Womack Brothers. Solo tenía 10 años y ya grabó un tema llamado “Buffalo Bill” con el sello Pennant con su hermano Curtis Womack como solista. Después formarían The Valentinos.  Sam Cooke les oyó cantar y los  contrató para su sello SAR pero tras la muerte de Cooke, quedaron un tanto abandonados a su suerte.  Los otros hermanos son Cecil Womack (nacido en  1947 y fallecido en 2013); Curtis Womack (nacido en 1943); Friendly Womack, Jr. (nacido en 1941); y Harris Womack (nacido en 1954 y fallecido en 1974 por agresión de arma blanca durante una pelea con su novia).

Bobby Womack

Entre los temas más conocidos de los Valentines está su "It's All Over Now" que versionaron los Rolling Stones pese a la  inicial desaprobación de Bobby; "Looking For a Love" que adaptó la J. Geils Band; "I Found a True Love", Wilson Pickett; "Everybody Wants to Fall in Love", Solomon Burke o "I Can Understand It", The New Birth, así como su "I'm Going To Forget About You".  En esa época también había tocado la guitarra con Sam Cooke.  Pocos meses después de su muerte, Bobby se casó en marzo de 1965 con Barbara Campbell, viuda de Cooke. Se divorciaron en 1976.

Tras separarse los Valentinos, Bobby empezó una carrera como músico de sesión.  Trabajó en los estudios de Chips Moman en Memphis y grabó con Joe Tex y los Box Tops. También tocó la guitarra con Aretha Franklin en trabajos como “Lady Soul” pero no en "Chain of Fools" como se cree erróneamente.  Su carrera como compositor también empezó a florecer después que Wilson Pickett quisiera grabar sus temas  "I'm a Midnight Mover"  y "I'm in Love". Como guitarrista de sesión también colaboró con Ray Charles o Dusty Springfield.

Bobby Womack

En 1968 grabó con Minit Records su primer álbum en solitario “Fly Me to the Moon” donde figuraba su primer hit, una versión del "California Dreaming” de los Mamas & The Papas.  Al año siguiente, 1969, colaboró con Gábor Szabó con el que escribió el instrumental, "Breezin'", que sería un éxito con George Benson.  También trabajaría con Sly and the Family Stone en el disco “There's a Riot Goin' On” y con Janis Joplin en "Trust Me" del album Pearl. Tras dos discos más con Minit se pasa a United Artists.  Entre los años 1970 y 1990, Womack tuvo 36 éxitos con canciones como un remake de “Looking for a Love”, o "That's the Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman's Gotta Have It" o “If You Think You're Lonely Now”.

Bobby Womack

Tuvo una vida repleta de desgracias como la muerte de dos de sus hijos que se complicó más con un consumo de droga.  A partir de 1985 su carrera fue diluyéndose hasta que volvería en 1990 precisamente con el disco “Resurrection”.  Tras colaborar con Todd Rundgren y un homenaje a George Gershwin, en 2009 grabó con Damon Albarn de los Blur el tema “Stylo” para su proyecto Gorillaz. En 2012, Womack sacaría su primer álbum en más de diez años con el título de "The Bravest Man in the Universe".
Womack había superado el cáncer y padecía síntomas de alzheimer.  Su muerte fue anunciada por su representante de la  discográfica XL Recordings, con la que preparaba un nuevo álbum, “The Best Is Yet to Come” en el que se había rumoreado que participaría Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart y Snoop Dogg.  Su último concierto se celebró el pasado 19 de junio en Ámsterdam.

Documentos sonoros: 

"Lookin' for a Love"(1962) tema de los Valentinos con el que años después volvería a triunfar en solitario Bobby en un remake (1973).


"What is this" de 1966 con Keymen Records, su primer single en solitario.

El tema "Across 110th Street" que se incluyó en el BSO de la película "Jackie Brown" de Tarantino con una espectacular Pam Grier.

Man, does this set go down easy big easy! This gorgeous set features over 80 hits from New Orleans' most famous-and occasionally obscure-musical sons and daughters, 4 CDs of jazz, blues, Cajun, zydeco and funk all mixed together like a good 'n' spicy gumbo. An 84-page book takes you by the hand into the most notorious bars and restaurants as you listen to such Crescent City classics as Iko Iko Dr. John; Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong; You Can Have My Husband Irma Thomas; I'm Walkin' Fats Domino; Let the Good Times Roll Shirley & Lee; Mother-in-Law Ernie K-Doe; Release Me Johnny Adams; Jambalaya Clifton Chenier; St. James Infirmary Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Hey Pocky A-Way Meters; Tell It Like It Is Aaron Neville; I Hear You Knocking Smiley Lewis; Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette) Benny Spellman; Tipitina Professor Longhair, and more. (New Orleans Monthly)New Orleans is my home, and I love New Orleans music. New Orleans is, and always has been, a city that lives and breathes music. Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens ("DPKQ") magnificently succeeds in capturing the wide spectrum of seemingly disparate sounds that comprise the New Orleans music phenomenon. No other compilation comes even close to seamlessly melding the common threads found in jazz, R&B, blues, gospel, Mardi Gras music, Cajun, zydeco, brass band music, Latin dance grooves, funk, and even klezmer music.

Background:

IAMA Man who had a sexual relationship with his mother. Verified

When I was in my teens, I had a sexual relationship with my mother. I think that we would both characterize the experience as positive. Please fee free to ask anything but I will not discuss anything that would reveal my identity. Recently, my mom and I spoke with a researcher that is studying example of incest that were not traumatic. He is preparing a paper on the subject. I am not an advocate for incest. For whatever reason, it worked for us. Don’t use use my experience as a template. I am here to relate my experience, not debate incest as a subject.

Here are a few FAQs that people will probably ask:

It started when I was 14, my mom was 37

I have an older sister that was unaware and not involved.

My dad knew about it from the beginning and supported my mom’s decision.

It ended around college.

1. Stupid question: Any possibility you’re adopted?

Nope, biological.

2. How did the researcher find you, and what made you decide to be involved with his work?

Well, I was aware of some of his work so he was on my radar and then I saw a notice online that he was looking for people in my situation.

3. Were you ever attracted to your sister?

Yes, but not overly.

4. How did this begin?

Well, without giving away too info, I was injured in an accident at 14 and incapacitated. I went from masturbating 2 times a day to zero. After 2 weeks, I was frustrated and took it out on my parents. My mom and dad knew what was up and talked about my mom “helping” me masturbate. They approached me one afternoon and when my mom said, I know you are frustrated and why you are frustrated would you like some help masturbating. Blood was rushing in my ears and I said yes but I really didn’t know if she meant what I thought she meant. I was excited and confused. She said that she would take care of me when I went to bed. Hours away.

[The injury] was temporary. During that time, I was not sure if her masturbating me would continue one I recovered. It did continue and progressed. It started with her masturbating me. Progressed to her giving me oral and eventually we had sex/made love. It was a slow progression.

We had kissed when orgasming but it was weird and it rarely happened.

5. Did you cuddle afterwards, ever kiss passionately, or was it just straightforward sex?

There was no cuddling. There once was a passionate kiss that happened during but it was weird so we didn’t kiss after that. Pretty vanilla sex.

—Here, I’ll say it. “Guy fucking his mom says that kissing her is weird”

6. Was your dad ever present?

Over the years my dad had seen us together but he never watched per se.

7. Were you ever worried about babies and what not?

Well, my mom was on the pill and never got pregnant.

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8. How was the first time you had sex with her. I mean, full on intercourse.

Well, The first time we had intercourse, I was lying in bed getting oral from her. In the middle of it, she stopped, climbed up my body, pulled her panties aside and sat on me. She was wearing a long Tshirt. She told me not to cum and she rode me for about a minute and came. She then finished me with her mouth. My head was spinning.

Sometimes it was discussed at the table but not with my dad around.

I would never tell anyone I know.

9. Was there a fear that your sister would find out?

There was at first but we were careful. She left for college pretty soon after it started so that made it a little easier.

10. Do you still continue this sexual relationship today?

No, it ended after I left for college. It just started to slow down and then eventually stopped. There wasn’t an event that ended it. I have talked to my mother and father about it over the years. The subject is not off limits. I don’t think that either of us wishes it to start up again.

11. Did your parents ever tell you not to tell anyone outside of the household? if so how?

They never had to tell me, I think that it was a mutual decision.

12. Did you ever talk dirty to each other?

No, no dirty talk. At the beginning, she could be clinical in her description of what she was doing and I would get turned on, but not dirty dirty. At orgasm, there could be the “Oh Shit” or “Oh Fuck”

13. Had you already lost your virginity, or was your mother your first?

I lost my hanjob/blowjob virginity to my mom. But intercourse was with a GF

14. While having sex or when you were about to cum, did you ever yell out, “I’m going to cum, Mom!” or something to that effect?

Yes, on occasion, I would say mom when I was coming because that is what I called her, Mom.

15. After the more clinical phase, who took more control in bed?

Well, it became equal when we started having intercourse.

For the most part, I would initiate but sometimes she would ask me. the code was “do you want to go upstairs?”

We probably only did 3 positions.

16. Did your mom dress sexy around the house?

No, she dressed like a normal mom. I never felt her up around the house.

17. How would most of these encounters happen? like explain a scenario?

At first it would happen when I was going to bed. Then it could be in the morning, after school or before bed. It all depended on the day. Sometimes 2 twice a day and sometime non at all.

18. If she got pregnant, would the child be your mother’s child or grandchild?

I am sure that if that happened then she would have got an abortion.

19. Did your parents know you’d lost your virginity to a gf? How exactly did you know that it amped up your parents’ sex life or that your father was turned on by the details? Can you describe the circumstances of the kiss a bit more? Why did it feel weird?

I did not tell my mother or father that I had lost my virginity. My mom stressed that if I had sex then I should wear a condom. They knew that I had a GF. It was after my mom and I had intercourse that I told her that I had had sex with my previous GF.

I had an idea that it amped up their sex life because I could tell that my parents would have sex after my mom serviced me. I couldn’t hear them but I could feel it through the floor and walls. I confirmed years later, talking to my mom, that it did increase their sex drive.

Well, it was later in the relationship, we were having sex, missionary. We were both in the moment and was lost in the pleasure. I locked lips like I would with my GF. It lasted through orgasm, maybe 30 seconds. We both said that it felt weird. Maybe because we kiss like normal mother and son in real life, this was a bit too intimate I guess. I really didn’t analyze it when I was 17. All I ever called that kiss, was weird. It wasn’t unpleasant just weird.

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How will those kids not blame her for that for the rest of their lives? It is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard, even though I didn’t actually know him too well.

20. Were family gatherings (during and after the sex stopped) ever awkward?

No, I don’t remember any family gatherings being awkward. We had a remarkably normal mother/son relationship aside from the sex. I always have gotten along well with both of my prarents.
Keeping that secret is very easy. I haven’t had a urge to tell anyone I know…just thousands of people on the Internet.

I know people will disagree but I am a pretty normal well adjusted person. I don’t see the relationship as negative.

21. Do you like incest porn?

Not really. Incest isn’t a fetish of mine.

22. Was there ever a time when you were anxious or conflicted about your relationship?

There really wasn’t a time that I was anxious or conflicted. When it first happened, I was worried that it would end.

I knew that I liked it, I didn’t feel guilty and that I wasn’t abused. I really thought that I was lucky.

I have seen a therapist about another matter but it was unrelated and short term. If I don’t believe myself to be broken, why should I seek Help?

Over the years, I have had questions and I felt free to ask them. It is not an off limits subject.

23. Do you feel any guilt associated with what occurred?

No guilt.

T-Rex was the most insecure of all the dinosaurs.

elfernan nos trae un cómic franco-belga escaneados por él para el blog.

Lapinot es un cómic franco-belga realizado por el dibujante francés Lewis Trondheim (La mazmorra).

La serie combina la sátira y la fantasía. Los personajes principales son todos animales, Lapinot es un conejo tímido y tranquilo, mientras que Richard es un gato bocazas con un don para meterse en problemas.

Las historias se alternan entre la Francia moderna y escenarios históricos. Los personajes de la serie pueden ser considerados como actores que no siempre son la misma persona, pero siempre juegan el mismo tipo de papeles. La serie es generalmente impredecible: cada libro es diferente en cuanto a ritmo, trama, tema, etc...

Idioma: Español.
Editorial: Planeta DeAgostini
Guion: Lewis Trondheim
Dibujo: Lewis Trondheim
Escaneador: elfernan
Archivos: 7
Formato: CBR.
Tamaño: 129
Tomos:

1. Slaloms
2. Coscorrones
3. Walter
4. Amor e interinatos
5. Vacaciones de primavera
6. De veras - El color del infierno
7. La vida como viene - El acelerador atómico

Descargar comics:

• Lapinot de Lewis Trondheim

Hoy vamos a hablar del dashi, éste es un caldo base de la cocina japonesa y parte esencial de ella, pues no se entendería sin él ya que muchas recetas de la gastronomía nipona no podrían ser elaboradas sin su empleo. Se le considera el punto de partida para cocinar platos con fideos así como para preparar la conocida sopa miso.

El dashi es principalmente elaborado a partir del alga kombu seca. Esta, ligeramente salada y sutilmente dulce contiene mucha cantidad de ácido glutámico, la base del glutamato monosódico o MSG, que realza el sabor umami, esencial en la cocina japonesa.

La mayor parte del alga kombu proviene de Hokkaidō, Japón, pero también se cultiva en Corea, donde se le conoce como dashima, y China, donde se le conoce como Haidai. Es secada durante aproximadamente un año para su uso y viene recubierta de un polvillo blanco a partir de sales naturales y que se recomienda retirar ligeramente con un paño antes de su uso.

También podemos encontrar frecuentemente dashi elaborado a partir de otros ingredientes como serían bonito seco o katsoubushi, pescados secos como sardinas o niboshi o incluso dashi vegetariano a partir de setas shitake.

Como os decía al principio el dashi es base fundamental de los platos con fideos, pero también se emplea en ensaladas, salsas, arroces, estofados, aderezos e incluso en chawanmushi, una especia de natillas que los japoneses toman como aperitivo, así que como podéis comprobar es una parte esencial en la mayoría de las recetas.

El dashi a diferencia de los fondos base de la cocina europea en donde se necesita mucho tiempo de cocción, se elabora de forma mucho más rápida. Existen distintas técnicas para su preparación y si estáis interesados en ellas os invito a que visitéis la web Umami Madrid, en donde el maestro Íñigo os explica distintos métodos para su preparación, os la recomiendo pues para mi es una página de referencia cada vez que quiero conocer algo sobre la gastronomía nipona.

Si no os veis para meteros en la cocina y preparar dashi casero, en las tiendas de comida asiática existe un caldo dashi instantáneo, fácil de preparar y llamado dashino-moto, pero como os podéis imaginar no tiene comparación con el preparado en casa, y sería más o menos como comparar una sopa echa con un cubito de caldo o una sopa preparada con un fondo casero.

Ahora que ya conocéis un poco más el dashi, ¿os apetecería probarlo?

Imágenes | Vattenbloggen | Joyosity | Calleboo En Directo al Paladar | La Unesco declara la gastronomía japonesa Patrimonio de la Humanidad En Directo al Paladar | Los fideos soba una pasta diferente desde Japón

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La noticia ¿Sabes qué es el dashi? fue publicada originalmente en Directo al Paladar por Esther Clemente.

If you have ever been on a first date, you know that it can be an uncomfortable experience for both parties. What in blue blazes are we supposed to do to break that uncomfortable sexual  tension? Well, let me tell you! Here are some 100% foolproof icebreaker conversation topics! Try them out. If they don’t work for you, there is a money back guarantee! 

1. Things You Don’t Like

A lot of people will make the common first date mistake of talking about all the things they’re interested in. WRONG-O! The important things to mention are the things you HATE! What has your date learned after you tell them that you like chocolate and dogs? That you’re a living breathing human being. Mention that you really dislike HPV and chicken potpie. Now you’re getting somewhere! Besides, if you list all of the things you dislike, you’ll have so much more to talk about and relate to. Odds are, your date probably dislikes hate crimes and mosquitos just as much as you! 

2. Find a Common Enemy 

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4. Professional Drink Holder

Whether you’re on a first date or in a job interview, you can be sure to break that uncomfortable ice by finding someone you and your date can mutually shit on. Maybe it’s the guy who took your coffee order at the counter or maybe it’s Brenda from accounting. Channel your inner middle school bully and hone in on their weaknesses together! The pressures of the conversation will quickly shift from you to Brenda’s adult braces and Crocs! Is it childish and cruel to victimize others due to your own insecurities? Of course it is. But would you rather talk about the weather or your thoughts on the new Transformers movie? Yeah, I didn’t think so. 

3. Awful Roommates

Everyone has had a terrible roommate ONCE* in his or her lives. Subtly slip your horrible roommate into conversation! Soon you’ll both be laughing about the fact that your Communist roommate hid a dagger in his desk and it will be like you never even forgot your date’s name!

*Note: If your date doesn’t have any terrible roommate stories to tell, it is because THEY are the terrible roommate. You are now contractually obligated to break this news to them before running away as quickly as possible. No second date. 

4. Daddy Issues

Let’s be real, who doesn’t have daddy issues? Discussing your father’s emotional distance is a great way to show that you aren’t afraid to discuss your feelings while also showing that you’re probably going to be a bit of work if this relationship continues. Getting to know your date’s daddy issues is like getting a glimpse into the future of your emotionally raw relationship together. You’ll learn that things won’t always be easy. Sometimes one person has to work harder than the other and no matter how hard you try, sometimes that person still chooses to leave you without any kind of explanation, DAD.  

5. Previous Dates 

Nothing says, “I’m confident in my dating abilities” like a compiled list of all your previous dates. Impress your date with tales of romantic walks through moonlit parks and holding hands and sobbing during Ghost: the Musical on Broadway. This will show your date that you are a great romancer like Matthew McConaughey in most of his movies. If those dates went well, be sure to point out all the areas in which you succeeded. This will impress your date. Also, be sure to blame any shortcomings on your previous romantic interest so that your new potential lover knows where to step up their game! 

There you have it! Five foolproof icebreaker conversations for your next first date! Just remember, the most important part of a date is to be yourself and have fun. If your date doesn’t seem to like you much after talking about these tips, then they just aren’t worth your time! 

Happy dating, friends!

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