"DaleW" > wrote:

> PS A side story: I thought the glazed carrots tasted funny, but
> every thing else was good, until I found a salad to have off
> aromas- I realized I thought the salad was corked! Laughed at
> myself, then today Betsy made another salad to go along with
> some leftovers for lunch, and put discovered the carrots had a
> distinctive TCA smell. Whodathunk?

I have had distinct TCA flavors in dishes twice. Once a lemon
slice (in a restaurant) had just about the loudest TCA taint in
my life (ruined the whole plate, fillet of lamb in bread crust),
and just a few says ago, at lunch with my first wife (who lives
one storey up), in a ragout type of dish.

M.