If you're into cusine you probably can tell the ingredients of everything just by taste. A connoisseur's taste buds can even detect if there's a missing ingredient in a dish. I was having dinner at one of my best restaurants and my nosey taste buds found out that green onions were being used in a dish that advertises scallions. There were no bits of onion, only a satiny brown gravy over succulent beef simmered with merlot, garlic and ahem, scallions. " Green onions are not scallons" taste buds whispered.

We spoke to the chef who immediately went to investigate his cooks and sure enough found that green onions were being used instead of scallons.

Simmering Kettle Drums

Speaking of gravies: did you know that the ingredient in jazz is a gravy seemingly made up of oil, flour, chicken broth; pepper, tomatoes and sassafras? Even the ear of a good jazz connoisseur could not readily pick up this gravy ingredient. But what most people who know jazz know that this music seems to go along with crayfish, sausages, crab legs, chicken and rice covered with a reddish or greenish gravy called "gumbo".

That actual food is used to make music is no odd thing. The kettle drum, for instance, in a orchestra can consists of ingredients like garlic, onions, capers and meats, simmering in butter and a sauvignon "boil rapidly bring down to a simmer until the symphony is fully cooked" in the kettle drum!

Be careful of a good looking dish

Gravy that makes up jazz and gumbo, is called "a rue." The meaning of the word rue is to have "sorrow or grief "or have "repentance over a loss of opportunity or lack of opportunity". Imagine adding your poultry, shellfish and sausages to a gravy made of grief and sorrow. If members of your clan or tribe don't have to eat this way to rescue their souls, cooking such an attitude could give a person more than indigestion.

Cabaret on Sundays

People make safe their souls using various religious routes and methods. Sometimes organized religious rituals are not enough for some people because that "stain " in the soul seems too indelible. Using music, ritual and foods with gravy called rue is one groups' alternative-religion in the gulf coast of Louisiana. Depending on one's state of hope or hopelessness, this music can also be used as a way to spitefully attack unsuspecting jazz patrons because they don't have to use such religious methods.

Scat Cat!

The word for a lyric less musical phase in jazz is called " scat." But it's also important to know that

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