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A few more tips... 1. Salt will reduce "boil over". If you don't use it the product will boil and the machine will complain and halt the process. 2. Do clean it up fast. 3. Oat groats make a great milk. As it cools it will thicken until it's almost a pudding and even has a "cream"...

Makes grain milks. Tough little bugger too. Props to GDG for suggesting "immediate cleanup". I agree, it does reduce the pain of cleaning, especially with oat milks. I just cover the pitcher and run to the sink to rinse the lower portion of the processing machinery down. Product quality is...

Pint sized bread maker with a footprint that you can cover with an 11 by 8 sheet of paper. Stands fourteen inches tall. I have a bigger lunch box. Zojirushi has the well deserved reputation as the "Cadillac" of kitchen appliances. This little model will make bread pretty much on its own. Y...

Makes five and a half cups of rice, or many other grains. I've test driven it with Quinoa. Worked like a charm and Quinoa isn't as easy as rice. The internal bowl is titanium with teflon. I'll live with it. Comes with a spatula, guide and a pretty good rep for its value. I am not sure if the Zojirus...

Philip Carlo puts together a fine narrative of the life and times of Richard Kuklinksi, the celebrated "Iceman". This book details the life of Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski. His childhood of surreal abuse at the hands of his father, which included the murder of his older brother...

About the Algerian Civil War? "A Savage War of Peace" by Alistair Horne. I'm re-reading it right now. "The Damned Die Hard" by Hugh McLeave. About the French Foreign Legion, which was created to conquer Algeria. "Lost soldiers; the French Army and Empire in crisis, 1947-1962...

"The Battle of the Casbah" by General Paul Aussaresses. A memoir by a member of the former SDECE, General Aussaresses details his campaign to eliminate the FLN from the capital of French Algeria. General Aussaresses describes his use of torture, summary executions and police and intelligen...