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Andrew Carmellini chooses celery for its vegetal astringency, which balances out the "bloody earthiness" of game birds like grouse and pheasant. For starters, you could measure the ebullience of two Richard Strauss tone poems (``Don Juan'' and ``Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks'') against the poise of Mozart's Fourteenth Piano Concerto and the astringency of Gyorgy Kurtag's ``. The consumer trend to purchase the less pungent, milder onion varieties may not be the best idea wellness wise, since those with a stronger flavor and higher astringency appear to have superior health-promoting properties. |
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