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Thursday, April 3, 2014
In Pursuit of Balance: A Love Story
The first time I looked in Raj's eyes, deep and brown like an old premox white Burgundy, I saw it. I saw balance. I'd never seen balance in a sommelier's eyes before. I'd seen cloudiness, a kind of protein haze; and I'd often seen a sort of emptiness, as though they'd been labeled "sommelier," but were really filled with something else, something altogether fake, and they were but slick and convincing frauds sold to wealthy and ignorant dot-com zillionaires. But Raj was different. He had stillness, and balance. And I'd been looking for that. I'd always been in pursuit of balance.
And what is balance? I make wine, and I haven't the slightest idea. I like to think of it like a Flying Wallenda might. You walk this small line utterly dependent upon balance, and you know you've achieved it when you don't fall 150 feet to your death. So balance isn't really that hard to understand from that viewpoint. Only a dead idiot doesn't understand balance. Wine isn't that different. Except sometimes the idiots aren't dead, that's about the only difference.
Here's the irony: Raj's balance made me lose mine. I fell, and I fell hard. Raj became my wine guru, my 12-pak Chopra. I wanted to give birth to something with him. I didn't care what. Well, not a porcupine. I could sit and listen to Raj talk about wine all day. He knows everything about wine. Raj is my Wikipedia of wine. I know, because when I conduct a search in his pants, he comes up first. It was after one of our many conversations about balance that the inspiration struck me. Raj and I could give birth to our pursuit, bring our beautiful shared passion to the world, teach the wine world about balance. Why hadn't it been done before? Surely, wines have always pursued balance, what else is there? What is a wine without balance? Aside from on the by-the-glass list at Fleming's?
I was so excited I could hardly speak. I stared deeply into my Raj's eyes and I wanted to cry. I was a woman pregnant with the future. Raj and I would give birth to Balance. And when Balance finally entered the wine world, when our baby was seen for the savior He most certainly was, wine would be changed forever! Balance would be King! Balance would assume His rightful place as the only true savior. And those who followed us would be rewarded, be seen as the true Lights of wine. We would take our message on the road, hold Balance conferences in great halls all over the country, invite the fallen, those poor wine lovers who mistake the whore of Ripeness for beauty, who worship at the satanic altar of alcohol, and open their eyes to what real wine is--What we say it is.
When I finally shared my vision with Raj, I could see he was speechless with love for me, and for our newborn King. He told me he had always dreamed of this day. That he had entered a world where Pinot Noir had been lost, had died for its Marcassins. Chardonnay was equally lost, a lonely old whore wearing too much makeup, flabby, and several hundred winemakers past tight. Raj knew he could save them. All he needed was a partner and a platform, and disciples to help spread the word. Balance is King, and there is but one way to Balance. Our way. Any other way can lead to only one result—a 150 foot fall to your death.
I don't think my heart has ever pounded harder in my chest than when Raj told me that he knew of one winery where balance had already been accepted as Savior and King—mine! At that moment, I felt that Raj and I were one. Together, we would bring real wine to the world. Our wines. And the wines of those who chose to follow. At that moment, Balance was born. And I can still hear Raj's words, words that have become our mantra for our Pursuit of Balance, words I never stop saying to myself, "Push, push, push, goddamit, push."
Raj and I agreed that people had to come to understand Balance on their own terms, that we couldn't push them too hard or they might come to wonder what was in it for us, which was pretty much the whole enchilada. We had to make them see Balance the way we saw Balance, our beautiful and sacred offspring, as the Savior of Wine. We needed a Manifesto. And nothing makes a Manifesto like vague and indefinable language. And I was staring into the big brown eyes of a master of vague and indefinable language.
Our Manifesto is brilliant. Through the time-honored conventions of obfuscation, vagueness, and out-and-out doubletalk, it achieves our goal. It brings us attention. That's the main reason for all this. The rest is just a smoke screen of importance. For those of you non-believers, here are a few of the most brilliant pieces of the Manifesto of Balance:
"Loosely speaking, a wine is in balance when its diverse components – fruit, acidity, structure and alcohol – coexist in a manner such that should any one aspect overwhelm or be diminished, then the fundamental nature of the wine would be changed." Oh, you know it's brilliant when the only response to it is, "Duh."
"Growing healthy fruit and maintaining natural acidity to achieve optimum ripeness without being overripe. What is ripeness and what is its relation to balance?" Love this! So smart. Optimum ripeness that isn't overripe! That's like optimum flavor without having too much flavor. Or optimum drinking without drinking too much. And then ask the question, What is ripeness? Beats the fuck out of me, but let's get it to the optimum.
"Can balance in wine be achieved through corrections in the winery or is it the result of a natural process informed by carefully considered intention at every step of the way?" Ooh, a compound question! Those are fantastic! Like in grammar school, where the teacher is telling you the answer without telling you the answer. Johnny, is it best to be a conniving little liar who needs to have the crap beat out of him on a regular basis, or is honesty best?
We gathered disciples, likeminded people who understood that Balance in wine is truthfully defined as the interplay of fruit, marketing, self-promotion and faux philosophy. We made them pass a test, a test of faith and Balance, and then they were granted Confirmation. We preached that we should arrive at a definition of Balance that makes the most sense for us, and only us, and for where we grow our grapes. Who cares about everyone else? There's this tightrope of balance that anyone can walk, anyone from anywhere. Skinny people can make it across without falling, fat people can make it, old people have a chance, tall people, short people...balance is possible for anyone. We just have to convince the wine-buying audience that we're the only ones who can make it without falling to our death, that we're the ones who truly understand Balance, and then they'll see all the others as already dead.
37 comments:
- Unknown said...
Hilarious . I was laughing after the first sentence.
- April 3, 2014 at 8:57 AM
- Unknown said...
Walder declared himself a balance turd in a real eye glazer reply to a recent Parker column.. when I said I like some of those alcohol bomb Shirazes I forgot to add, fuck all those balance turds in their snooty palettes.. gimme a Shiraz that's got enough oak that you're picking wood out of your teeth, enough alcohol that it knocks out fat aunt Bertha on the couch after a glass.. enuff smoke, tar, leather, (mmm starting to salivate already) and tannins that ya gotta pry your tongue off the roof of your mouth and a box of extra strong baking soda to get the stains off your teeth.. whaddya mean I got a crap palette??? I can taste everything!! Well, maybe not after three glasses, but who's counting??
- April 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM
- Thomas said...
About midway in reading this entry, I fell over. Must have lost my balance.
- April 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM
- Unknown said...
Based on your "palette" I can see why you love wood;)
That aside, I agree, give me POWER or give me death!
IPOP - April 3, 2014 at 10:54 AM
- renzo said...
Your words are like a palette cleanser. Essential for greater appreciation of wine... and bullshit... detecting-that is!
I was trying to explain "natural wine" and its place or role in the scheme of things while dining at a restaurant recently with my sons. They are new to drinking and really into it (wine particularly). I'm gonna just send them a link to your blog and quit trying to explain wine to them going forward.
I'll still share the beverage with them, but leave the dispensing of the wisdom to the master- hose that is! - April 3, 2014 at 12:38 PM
- Unknown said...
You, David and Bob Ross should all get together and have a drink. Your tastes seem to run alike, although I think Bob prefers turpentine as a "palette" cleanser.
Happy trees.
IPOP - April 3, 2014 at 1:09 PM
- Marcia Macomber said...
Balance, schmalance! :-)
Save it for teeter-totters!
I want some leaning wine. How about a flavor profile that "leans in"? - April 3, 2014 at 3:10 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Gang,
All along I've had IPOB in my sights. I just couldn't find an angle that I liked,but then the other day I read their "manifesto" on their website and, after being astonished at its doublespeak, the whole thing just appeared. I have been around a long time in the wine biz, and can't remember a more laughable "movement." What amazes me is that there are some damned nice wineries associated with IPOB. A lot of them should know better.
But IPOB is a vanity marketing project, and nothing else. As self promotion, it's genius. As objective truth, it ain't. I hope it goes away. It's MY job to insult the other 3500 California wineries, not Jasmine and Raj's. - April 3, 2014 at 4:24 PM
- Thomas said...
Have to admit, I was in the dark about IPOB, but that's only because I am impervious to bullshit.
And what does all this stuff about a palette have to do with wine??? - April 3, 2014 at 6:18 PM
- Thomas said...
OK, so I went and read it. Geez, I wish people would call me when they seek a writer.
In any case, I got the part when they called Chardonnay a "widely planted varietal" and I stopped reading.
It's a godammned grape variety--not a a grape varietal. - April 3, 2014 at 6:24 PM
- renzo said...
"You, David and Bob Ross should all get together and have a drink. Your tastes seem to run alike, although I think Bob prefers turpentine as a "palette" cleanser. "
Dick Farter,
Ha! Good one.The yucks are side-splintering. "Bob Ross", that's not at all a wooden delivery of a tiny joke. Thanks for playing. - April 3, 2014 at 6:54 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
Mr. P-- A palette is used to get wood in your wine.
It all depends on the forest from which the palette is made. I like a balanced palette myself, but there are those who like charred palettes, neutral palettes or even toothpicky palettes.
Ron-- I think you have downplayed the religious aspect of IPOB. It is more than my way is the only way. It is the virtual branding of the disbelievers as heretics that turns IPOB and its acolytes into vinous zealouts exceeded only by the biodynamic worshippers. - April 3, 2014 at 9:47 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Puff Daddy,
I think IPOB is simple marketing, and rather transparently so. But it has been successful.
Wine is big enough that it can include all kinds of styles. One would assume that most small producers think their wines are the most expressive, IPOB just figured out a way to attach the word "balance" to their style before anyone else did. In magic, this is called misdirection. In both cases, magic and IPOB, it's simple sleight of hand. It fools an awful lot of people. - April 3, 2014 at 10:13 PM
- Thomas said...
It fools only the unbalanced. - April 4, 2014 at 6:10 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
Ron--You are, of course, correct that there is a massive marketing motive behind IPOB, and if it stopped with that, then I would not be so bothered by it.
But, it is the "I am right and you are wrong" aspect of this that bugs me. Wander over to STEVE! today and read the first comment on his Carneros editorial. Some fool over there professes to have regained his interest in Carneros Pinot because he tasted on that reminded him of Oregon.
IPOB is more than a statement of preference, more than a marketing mechanism. It is a movement, and I would remind you that one of its leaders uses the word "Revolution" to describe his view on the subject.
Thanks for sticking a pin in their balloon, but I think it will take many more pin pricks before their religious ferver is exposed for what it is.
Finally, had a meeting with a winemaker whose wines are occasionally championed by the IPOB folks (two in the top 100 at the SF Chron) who is willing to go on the record with his opinion that these folks have forgotten the basic rule. Wine is not to be judged by formula but by what is in the bottle. - April 4, 2014 at 8:24 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
There is a religious undertone to my piece. I had vaguely in mind a virgin birth scenario, and I used some religious terminology, but I didn't think that was the point. If there is a point.
I checked Twitter, as I sometimes do when my stats blow up, and my stupid piece has been tagged by folks like Harvey Steiman, James Molesworth, and, yes, Raj Parr. Glad to have such a distinguished audience.
Though I don't care, I am accused in various circles of being pro-Parker, pro-Heimoff, untalented, unfunny, and,always when you write jokes, adolescent. I love that so many people hate what I do,it's validating. I simply write whatever comes onto my head. Agendas are for the dull-witted, and IPOB is a good, though successful, example of that.
I've stuck a lot of pins in a lot of balloons. But the amount of hot air in the wine biz, the nearly infinite number of balloons, makes it a Quixotic task. - April 4, 2014 at 8:45 AM
- Charlie Olken said...
Untalented, unfunny and adolescent.
Refer those folks to Gabriel Jagle's first comment on this piece. "Hilarious".
Sticking pins in pomposity may have a message but it is also about humor. Screw 'em if they can't get the joke. - April 4, 2014 at 9:47 AM
- Unknown said...
Charlie, a pallet is what is used to transport your wine. A palette is used to hold daubs of paint. You need to be sure to keep your varietals of wood straight.
I agree that IPOB is all about marketing, and the idea of a "manifesto" and "revolution" are sure attention-getters for a demographic that grew up with overblown Napa Cabs as the ideal aspiration.
I see IPOB at its core as a conversation, a discussion that this generation needs to have.
Some who have been around longer [ahem] had this discussion a couple decades ago and have been living, growing and making wine by the individual conclusions we drew from it ever since. My personal reaction is [yawn]. - April 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I assume the "yawn" is for my piece.
I guess every generation thinks they figured out wine, and discovered balance. IPOB makes me laugh and so I decided to have some fun with them.
Thanks for chiming in, John. Don't be such a stranger. - April 4, 2014 at 11:48 AM
- Thomas said...
I applaud your ability, not to mention desire to be yourself.
If wine biz people don't like being satirized, they should stop being so stupid about how they go about promoting themselves.
As Charlie said above, the subject of wine balance is about individual wines. There is no formula. What's more, it is not a mysterious activity that requires the kind of near-pompous babble found on that website, which I would never have visited had this blog entry not appeared.
Having said that, I think you have stirred Mr. Parker, who seems to be using your jokes and satire to bolster his rigidity, animosity, and overall sad expressiveness. - April 4, 2014 at 12:16 PM
- Dan Fishman said...
Fantastic. One of my favorite HMWs ever.
- April 4, 2014 at 1:19 PM
- Charlie Olken said...
By the way, Ron, are you making wine? Had a Zin today whose name is HMW. Very scary whether it is you or somebody who wants to be you.
Oops. Just checked the label. It is HRW. Close but no Hosemaster. How could there be? - April 4, 2014 at 4:58 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Don't get me wrong. I welcome criticism of my work, and love how angry it makes some people. Where some see laughter, others see negativity. For the most part, the folks who disparage my work are often simply upset that no one is talking about their work. I don't care what anyone thinks of it, and never have.
When I've lampooned Parker, and that's often, people loved it. When I lampoon someone else and Parker approves, they think I'm a hack. I try to respect my audience's intelligence, but, frankly, many don't deserve it. I leave them to write their endlessly dull winery profiles, monotonous and worthless tasting notes, and second-rate opinions on third-rate sites. I'm just here talking to myself.
Parker, or anyone, can agree or disagree with my foolishness. I only try to make people laugh. I'm not here to proselytize, or educate, or campaign. I try to say original things in interesting and funny ways. I fail more often than not. When a piece like this blows up, and is talked about, I am dumbfounded. It's comedy. It's satire. It's trivial crap. It's sure not worth talking about.
Damn, I was hoping it was an HMW Zinfandel. I'd sue those bastards. With Parker as my attorney. - April 4, 2014 at 6:42 PM
- Thomas said...
Whether or not RP agrees with you is not what I was getting at. I've seen something that he wrote regarding this particular blog entry. He has taken your satire and applied it to his animosity toward anyone who disagrees with his position, pointing out that you agree with his position.
It is of course a false comparison, and you can't stop others from using your writing to make believe you are on their side of a particular argument. It is the price we must pay for going public with our art and our ideas, but that does not mean it is a pleasant thing to witness.
HMW: His Majesty Washam, no?
- April 5, 2014 at 7:25 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
I get your point, but apparently it bothers you more than it bothers me. However anyone twists the HoseMaster's words, it's fine by me. The HoseMaster makes a living doing the same thing (well, not a living, but you get the idea). I can hardly complain when someone twists the HoseMaster's words, or insults him, or thinks my work is third-rate. You dish it out, you learn very quickly to take it. I learned that forty years ago.
I knew that making fun of IPOB was going to stir up the wine chat rooms, and that many would reveal their dislike of my work, and many would defend it. They spend their whole lives trying to be right all the time. As I've said before, you play Dungeons and Dragons to pretend you're a hero, you go on eRobertParker to pretend you're a wine expert. And a literary expert as well, sometimes. Many of them think reading my blog is a waste of time--this from guys whose identities rely on hours and hours on eBob or wineberserkers. It's laughable on the face of it.
I don't choose subjects in order to get attention or views. Behind the scenes, at least around where I live, a lot of people are fed up with IPOB's attitude. I just decided to have some fun with that. It's only wine. Some of it Natural, Authentic and Certified Sensitive, and some of it not. But for all of us, it's just wine. That I irritate a few of the soreheads and "experts," or that I gain some of their approval, it's not the least bit important to me. - April 5, 2014 at 8:41 AM
- renzo said...
"It's only wine. Some of it Natural, Authentic and Certified Sensitive, and some of it not. But for all of us, it's just wine. That I irritate a few of the soreheads and "experts," or that I gain some of their approval, it's not the least bit important to me."
... So says you. Even though it isn't likely to be completely true. What you said there about reaction to your words is the predominant takeaway. You really don't seem to care about "branding." (Ha!). Your self-deprecation is always on high. And you really are hesitant to take an unqualified compliment. (Except for shouted sweet nothings and double entendre from a certain bloggess).
I'll say it again anyway. Please continue doing whatever it is that you say your doing. You are a genuine trou normand -- never wooden, always refreshing :) - April 5, 2014 at 9:28 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
First of all, thank you for the kind words, encouragement, and for being a reliable common tater.
I'm not being disingenuous when I say I'm not seeking approval. Simply put, you can't effectively write satire if you are seeking approval. Do I seek an audience? Yes, of course. I did, inadvertently, create a brand in the HoseMaster of Wine™. That was just luck, never intent. I'm glad, and flattered, but it just happened.
I will say it one more time--the vast majority of comedy writers are filled with self-loathing. That makes taking compliments very difficult. The upside is, it makes taking insults incredibly easy. And that's more important to the job.
I don't even know how long I'll continue. I've proven to myself now that I can sustain my brand of stupidity for a significant amount of time. That's what I set out to do. From now on, it's just habit. Habits die hard, but they do die. - April 5, 2014 at 9:52 AM
- Thomas said...
...and when you are done, you'll have palates, palettes, pallets (pick one) loads of material.
Ah, English. - April 5, 2014 at 12:02 PM
- Unknown said...
I had attended the IPOB tasting a few times, though I think they viewed me as "unbalanced" and this year I did not receive an invitation.
But a handful of the wineries associated with that "organization" (if you deem them 'organized') make wines I find to be of good quality. Yet many of the wines being shown there are, from a consumer's perspective, quite unbalanced : they have heavyweight price tags and lightweight quality.
Why wasn't the Siduri winery participating? I always thought Adam Lee pursued balance in his wines, no?
ANONYMOUS I - April 5, 2014 at 3:11 PM
- Unknown said...
Had I not been hetereosexual and had I not been married I would love to marry you on the spot and give birth to something...special. Something us. I would never let you go, Ron...
The IPOB thing is a Masterpiece, competeing with the lost introduction of The New Californian Wine and Higher Alcoholics Anonymous for the top spot, in my humble opinion.
The best thing with your writings is the extra bonus offered. I can't decide which is more hilarious, you're written words or the comments from people who are rubbed the wrong way and now stand there - very annoyed - with there pants down, failing to see the satire and above all, no kidding, actually trying to defend such an absolutely ridiculous thing. As a market ploy, sure...kudos. But talking about putting a foot wrong with such an laughable name...in PURSUIT of BALANCE. How wonderful that at least SOME are pursuing this quest since we live in a world where most winemakers around the world don't. Yeah, right... :-) - April 6, 2014 at 12:42 AM
- LeoFerrando said...
Ron, thanks again for your fine irony nd sharp sarcasm, that unveil our frail defense against institutional stupidity. The iPob Manifesto is real, or just a bad joke ?
- April 6, 2014 at 8:45 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Nice to have such a notable wine guy on my side. And you're the first person to propose to me since Marlene, though she's more my type, what with having girl parts and all.
I only received the huge reaction to this piece because Robert Parker liked it, and said so on his eBob chat room. My piece might be controversial, but he is really controversial. I don't flatter myself to think that it would have gotten much reaction at all without his words. As soon as someone like him, or Steiman or Molesworth, says I'm funny, the usual clowns say I'm not. They rarely argue the point of the piece, only the merits of my lack of talent. I always wonder why they read my blog, then. I don't read the work of writers I don't like, unless I'm going to satirize them. Bunch of chat room chuckleheads.
Thanks, Miran.
The quotes in bold are taken directly from the IPOB manifesto published on their website. It's wine gobbledy-gook of the highest order, and was what really triggered this piece. - April 6, 2014 at 9:13 AM
- Joseph Comfort said...
Dear HMW -
Anything you might say that "stirs up a wine 'chat-room'" should be met with a parade. Some may declare you a miracle worker for slapping the paddles on those corpses!
Without grist for the mill, there just ain't no bread. Stick it out!
j. comfort
- April 7, 2014 at 2:34 PM
- Joseph Comfort said...
Dear HMW -
Anything you might say that "stirs up a wine 'chat-room'" should be met with a parade. Some may declare you a miracle worker for slapping the paddles on those corpses!
Without grist for the mill, there just ain't no bread. Stick it out!
j. comfort
- April 7, 2014 at 2:34 PM
- Unknown said...
It's especially delicious when The HoseMaster takes an angle akin to the Stephen Colbert of Wine.
- April 8, 2014 at 5:14 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Well, in fact, IPOB certainly does have the ring of truthiness, doesn't it? - April 8, 2014 at 6:33 PM
- Mason Balistreri said...
Absolutely hilarious.
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If there is a King of salumi, it's definitely Culatello di Zibello. Many might think that honor belongs to Prosciutto di Parma, with it's 5 pointed crown branded onto it's skin, but in reality, those in the know, understand that Culatello is the true King.
Culatello is made from the large muscle mass in the rear leg of the pig. Creating it means destroying the possibility of making a prosciutto. That, combined with it being a relatively small part of the whole leg, its tremendous aging time, the fact that it's the best part of the leg, and the expertise required to make it, make it one of the most expensive salumi in Italy, particularly if it adheres to the DOP regulations to be a Zibello culatello.
The flavor of culatello is indescribably delicious, but I'll try. It has a soft, supple texture similar to prosciutto, but a tiny bit dryer. The flavor is robust, and redolent of the 500 year old, humid, caves where they spend their 12 months drying. The pork flavor is the main thing you can taste (which is delicious because to adhere to the DOP certain criteria for raising the pigs have to be adhered to, and they must be pigs from either Lombardia or Emilia-Romagna), followed by the funk of the aging and the caves It's really something special. There is obviously no way I can recreate the flavor from the 500 year old caves and the native molds, but I'm hoping I can create something similar and delicious.
You can see the cure is exceedingly simple. Nothing to interfere with the pork flavor and the flavor of the 500 year old caves, which I was unable to import from Italy. This would be a good candidate for using a high quality pastured pig. I'm sure I'll do it again with one, but for this trial I was trying to learn how to make the cut and the complex tying.
I have to thank Scott @ Sausage Debauchery for pushing me to make this through some friendly competition, as well as my friend Alberto in San Francisco (don't know if he reads the blog) without whom I wouldn't have known where to begin the cutting, and also Angelo Competiello and his dad for also showing me how to make the cut.
This is a BIG post with a lot of pictures. It's a complicated process so make sure you understand what you're doing before you hack away! Since i've never made this, and its a complex salume, there is the chance that what I've done will fail....so follow at your own risk. I'm going to also show the curing of the fiocco which is the other side of the leg...a poor man's culatello if you will.
Culatello starts with a whole rear pig leg. I got the biggest one i could find. This one was about 23 lbs. | |
The first step is removing the aitch bone. Just feel around the front for it, and gently cut around the bone without gouging too far into the meat. Don't want any excess cuts or slices. | |
Aitch bone is removed and on top of the leg for demonstration. | |
Next step is to skin the ham leaving behind as much fat as possible. | |
This is the other side of the leg. Nice and skinless. Ooops! i nicked the fat there in the middle. | |
It's important to "milk" or "pump" the femoral artery in the leg to get any remaining blood out of there. Leaving it in there risks rancidity. | |
It's easier to watch a video of someone milking the artery than try to explain how to do it...found this on Youtube. Thanks to Kim Adams @ Gangofpour.com |
Now it's time to cut the precious ham into a culatello, a fiocco and a bone. The culatello is the the large side of the leg shown inside the green area on this picture. The fiocco is the small side, shown in red on the picture. In between is obviously the bone. |
Locate the bone and understand how it runs inside the leg, then cut the hunk of muscle off it. The flap on the front of the culatello is cut off to square up the face. That's the small piece you see there. Use it for salame, or make little pork steaks to eat fresh. |
This shows the culatello on the right, the bone in the middle and the fiocco on the left. The fiocco is considered the poor cousin of the culatello, but it's still good. I cured using the same exact formula ratios as I used for culatello. |
Here is the culatello. Trimmed to its proper shape. Use all your trimmings for salame. |
The other side of the culatello. Ready for its first tying. | |
Using slip knots the culatello muscle is tied really tight so it keeps its nice round shape. | |
Tie tie tie | |
Rear side. Use twine big enough to not cut into the meat and fat | |
Salt, pepper, cure #2. That's it. | |
Rubbed and massaged all over the culatello and then bagged with all the cure. This was left in the fridge for 21 days. Turning and massaging every 4 or 5 days. | |
The fiocco/fiocchetto is tied up as well and salted just like the culatello. | |
The culatello is cased in a pig bladder traditionally. I wasn't able to get any, but, I was able to get a beef bladder. It took some wrestling to get it in there, and then I sewed the cut I made back up, pulling the bladder tight. Kind of looks like Frankenstein. I should have used thinner twine for the trussing. Next time. The fiocco is stuffed in a beef bung. Instead of a bladder, collagen can be used, as can strips of beef bung which can be cut open, and used to wrap the culatello. Cut the bung open so it's a flat sheet and wrap the culatello in that. It might take more than one, no problem, they'll fuse together where they overlap once they dry a little. The tying is complex and takes quite a while. It took me about 1.5 hrs to case and tie. See the video below for how to tie. | |
This guy is awesome! I must have watched this 20 times. | |
I sprayed the culatello and fiocco with MEK 4 mold spray and put it in my fermentation box at 70-72 deg. for 30 hours. This is after the fermentation. | |
It's so beautiful I can't stop looking at it! | |
The fiocco was nice looking too. |
Now the waiting game starts. The culatello and fiocco are in the curing chamber at 55 F and 75% RH. I'm guessing the fiocco will be ready in about 4-5 months and the culatello in about 8-10, maybe longer. I guess it'l be a Thanksgiving treat!


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Allen will work into the rotation, Reid added, but the switch was a clear demotion for the Eagles' 2010 second-round draft pick.
"I was alright with it," Allen said on Wednesday. "You got to be a professional about it and just go out there and continue to work and contribute and help the team out however you can."
Anderson, who was filling in for the injured Coleman, played particularly well against the run in the last two games. Reid had hinted last week that he was likely to keep Anderson in as a starter. But having Coleman, a 2010 seventh round pick, ahead of Allen is a bit of a surprise considering the Eagles have more invested in Allen.
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"It's hard to say, man," Allen said. "I'm not going to say it had anything to do with my knee. It is what it is."
Reid claimed that he was going with Anderson and Coleman because they were better against the run and would matchup better against the Redskins. Reid said that Coleman, who has also struggled for most of this season, was a "little more stout" against the run than Allen.
"Colt came in and we asked him to fill in at the line of scrimmage and be a physical player and he did a nice job with that," Reid said. "We needed that at that time, and so we're going to need it this week. [The Redskins] run the football and do a good job at that."
Allen has had games in which he has looked strong against the run. Last season in Buffalo, he was all over the field. But the third-year player has missed his share of tackles in the box and seemed to lack the chippiness you need out of the safety position.
"That's something you can always improve on, along with other aspects," Allen said.
The Eagles, like many teams across the league, have had trouble evaluating the safety position. They expended two second round picks on the position -- Allen in 2010 and Jaiquawn Jarrett in 2011 -- in back-to-back drafts. Jarrett was released in September.
It didn't help the youngsters that the Eagles switched to a scheme during the 2011 off-season that placed more responsibility agaisnt the run on the shoulders of both safeties.
Still, it would seem to make sense to see how Allen would finish out the season now that the Eagles went back to a more traditional scheme for safeties. It could be they don't expect to bring either Allen or Coleman back and just want to see if Anderson can handle the role since he could be back as a special teams ace.
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Burn in Hell
I'd love to believe that this edition might inadvertently open up a few minds to the glories of Dante's poetry, but the cynic in me just doesn't believe it.
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I'm assuming it is public domain so its not costing them anything but the paper its printed on. So why not try to scrape a few extra bucks out of the project. still exposure is exposure and if it makes one kid read a great book well then I'm ok with it. Now EA just needs to make Video Games versions of The Aeneid, The Sound and The Furry, and Ulysses. Who doesn't want to wander through a virtual early 20th century Dublin.
ReplyDelete@sevenbastard: yep, they downloaded the Project Gutenberg version and slapped some art they've already paid for on it.
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I sort of gathered that James went off the deep end a while back, actually.
To see a work of literature mangled like this is really, truly morally reprehensible.
Didn't anyone working on this project think that maybe, just to be on the safe side, it might not be a good idea to be associated with this project? You know, just in case there were legions of devils waiting out there, making the tenth layer of Hell for those who torture true works of art. Not a fan of this myself, but I'm sure that at one time people said similar things about our favorite hobby. Also, I'm not a fan of the "parent" literature here so I'm not going to scream too much.
Just keep in mind that it is a video game and seldom has any video game offered much more than a ton of good fun and flashy graphics. Whatever story is overlayed on it, it's usually about the action or the puzzle.
I've played video games that butchered history, literature, and mythooligy and folklore and had a blast.
Remember the gorgon was not a bronze bull before we got ahold of it!Remember the gorgon was not a bronze bull before we got ahold of it!
While the hobby certainly has its own examples of similarly egregious mangling of its source material, the gorgon is not an example of it. D&D's bull-like gorgon is based on a confusion in the late Middle Ages between the mythical catoblepas and stories of the rhinoceros, resulting in a creature that shared the name of Medusa and her sisters but lacked their characteristics.- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM
I love Dante's Comedy. I recognize it as humanity's single finest literary work.
I am strongly in favor of this sort of cover being available. It will almost certainly get some people to buy it who otherwise would never so much as glance at Dante. And at least a few of those buyers will read it and continue with the Purgatorio and the Paradiso.
In short, this cover = additional Dante lovers. - AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 5:20 PM
"I'd love to believe that this edition might inadvertently open up a few minds to the glories of Dante's poetry, but the cynic in me just doesn't believe it."
Ok... otherwise what's the problem?
"What's next, "Crime and Punishment the Collectible Card and Token Game"?"
No: "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" the Movie, directed by David O. Russel... maybe :) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374989/ Part of me wonders if WotC is anow a subsidiary of EA. I bet the TV spot includes "This ain't yer father's classic medieval literature" or something similar. They'll probably follow this up with an arcade fighter based on the Ramayana and Dance Dance Revolution clone for Journey to the West. A Guitar Hero expansion inspired by Romance of the Three Kingdoms is likely also in the works.
Actually, I am unashamed to admit that Wickedmurph's idea about a driving game based on Milton is something I can see myself playing the crap out of.Having worked at a bookstore way back at the time the DiCaprio "Romeo+Juliet" movie came out, I can attest that this will likely sell really well.
We had so many teenage girls coming in (and a few adults) wanting to buy Romeo and Juliet.
Although when we sold out of the ones with the movie tie-in cover, lots of them refused to buy it, despite our assurances that was the exact same text inside.
So whether they read it, or just look at the pretty pictures is anyone's guess. But it will sell, as sad as that is.
WV--yambit: womanizing, Cajun mutant sweet potato- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM
@Ray: Gadzooks, you got me. I will be re-reading this book after I finish the Odyssey.
Hmm, SyFy's Odyssey had more boobs than the one I am reading. :( "Grapes of Wrath" the RPG.
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Myself, I don't see the least problem with this. To the extent that it gets anyone to read and enjoy Dante's work, good for them! To the extent that it doesn't, who's been injured?
It's all well and good to say that a book, game, etc. isn't to your taste. Labeling it as idiocy and calling those behind it villains, however, strikes me as over the top. - AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 10:28 PM
This book is just a goofy reskinning of the same edition that Penguin and Barnes & Noble publish. I'm not sure where the harm is, if a kid who wouldn't otherwise read the book until college picks it up a few years early. Hell, I haven't read Dante's Inferno yet. Maybe I'll buy a copy of this edition, nyah nyah so there.
"They'll probably follow this up with an arcade fighter based on the Ramayana and Dance Dance Revolution clone for Journey to the West. A Guitar Hero expansion inspired by Romance of the Three Kingdoms is likely also in the works."
Not to spoil a good rant, but I can pick up at least two shovelware Wii games based on Journey to the West at Target for $15 a pop right now, and I've seen about half a dozen others, even if you don't count any of the Dragon Ball games. (The original Dragon Ball anime -- not the Z or GT series -- was inspired by Journey to the West.) And Romance of the Three Kingdoms has inspired not one, but two long-running videogame franchises from Koei: Romance of the Three Kingdoms (natch), and Dynasty Warriors.
Point is, classics are classics because they bear up to reinterpretation. They're not sacred writ -- in fact, they're often the popular entertainment of their time, and that's probably a good portion of why they bear up and stand the test of time in the first place.
Word verification: THOTARR (the barbarian) As a bookstore manager, now I get to look forward to every single person who buys this book returning it. I've already had inquiries (they started last week).
Cust. "I don't think this is it."
Me. "It is."
Cust. "It's supposed to be based on a video game."
Me. "The video game is based on the book. LOOSELY."
Cust. "This isn't the right cover."
Me. (Taking them to the computer, looking it up and turning the screen to face them) "Is this it?"
Cust. "Yeah, THAT'S it!"
Me. "Same book. Even the same translation. Just a different cover."
Cust. "Is it good?"
How the hell do I answer that? "Yes but you're not likely to understand or appreciate it?" So I say, "I think so."
Cust. "Okay. But can you order me the one with the badass on the cover?"- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM
Maybe someone might complain that it is different from the game... "Hey! Why Dante is not kikking ass to Malacoda and his fellow devils? There's something wrong!".
But I dont understimate the Comedia (expecially the Inferno) ability to fascinate the youth... I have to be honest, I'm really failing to see the problem here. The text hasn't been altered has it? You can complain that the game or the art aren't true to the text, but anyone reading will be able to make that determination for themselves. If it gets even one kid to read something they would not otherwise have bothered with, isn't that a good thing?
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2010 at 10:19 AM
I really did try to read the poem and it was so painful that I couldn't get past the 2nd chapter. Too much prose for me caused my mind to explode.
The video game is fun. It's a new spin on the God of War type play. If you liked that and enjoy button mashing goodness then you'll like Dante's Inferno. I'll be picking it up when it hits 29.99. Yes, I have to say, I don't see a problem with this book. The game is likely to be an atrocity, but the book is going to get at least one person reading Dante who wouldn't have done so otherwise, and that strikes me as a good thing. I don't like film/TV/game covers for books, but I don't look down on those who buy them.
(Unless the cover art is really bad, like the US editions of Terry Pratchett's work, but that's a whole other thing.)
Furthermore, I suspect there may be a bit of glasshouses and stones here; I'm sure I'm not the only person to have plundered great works of art to spice up a game session. :)
Anyway, the key point is that this will create more Dante readers. Good.- AnonymousJanuary 15, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Really, Volja? I think that anyone taken by that cover is in for a big letdown when they read Dante. I don't see the unwashed masses feeling more inclined to picking up the book or knowing who Dante was. Did Beowulf fly off the shelves after the movie, boardgame and PC/console game? Not from the local bookstores around me.
I see this as being less a snob and more a realist. > What's the outrage?
I'm still needing convincing this ain't just a conspiracy to wind up James. ;)
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> As long as this thing gets a single person on Earth discover and appreciate Dante, it was worth it.
+/- *nods*I'll share the outrage. The "just one more reader" argument doesn't hold water IMO. Here's my criticisms:
(1) It's fraudulent marketing. People will be picking this up looking for a continuation of the video game, which it's not. Scams suck. (2) Overall energy towards Dante's work will be negative. While one reader may be gained, a thousand will be turned off and be telling their friends to avoid Dante and that it sucks. Overall loss for the reading communty. (3) Sympathy for the poor bookstore workers (nextautumn above) whose ongoing grief outweighs the "just one more reader" principle.> It's fraudulent marketing. People will be picking this up looking for a continuation of the video game, which it's not.
Top line, front cover; "The literary classic that inspired".
If someone's happy to blindly hand over their $$$ under the impression that means the book is "a continuation of the video game", well so be it.
Other books have been sold in more dubious covers and it didn't scar their readers for life or even stop 'em from being drawn in hook, line and sinker.
Got lions and emus... only in Hobbiton. Apparently. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1274/1290165828_77b1155c66.jpg
To say nothing of http://mysite.verizon.net/aznirb/mtr/oop/ace_return.jpg - darn, don't they know it should have a knob on the end: Gandalf ain't going to get anywhere waving that around, methinks.> In addition to that atrocious cover
Ah... any comments on the "What I'm reading update" in that context? And it /is/ a BGS this time... :)
Will stick to the http://www.flickr.com/photos/jvk/4132481515/in/set-72157622794027335/ version on the shelf here, anyhow. ;)
codeword:alowanc (to greet bowdlerised Vancian servants (7))James, I have similar feelings toward the upcoming Clash of the Titans remake.
Yes, I saw those trailers and they left me thinking -- and I can barely believe I'm saying this -- "Did they not understand the original film?" Whereas the original was a sword-and-sorcery film with basic plot was (largely) consonant with Greek mythology, this new one looks to be a video game-y action film with a lame will-to-power subtext about defying the will of the gods. I'm not quite clear why they're bothering to "remake" Clash of the Titans when the new film deviates from it significantly.


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Billy Donovan Saga, Cont'd: I say this about marriage all the time:
It's more publicly painful, but you're better off breaking up the day before the wedding than the day after the wedding.
In Donovan's case, he is better off quitting the day after the contract is signed than, say, a year later, which would screw over his new team AND his old team.
Billy D's rep HAS taken a hit. But it's temporary. How temporary? It will last until next year's recruiting results are announced. Or when he wins his next title, whichever comes first.
I always like to consider the following question of any name in the news: Will this incident be in the first paragraph of the person's obituary?
In Donovan's case, I think nothing but an "O.J. moment" can dislodge "won back-to-back national titles" as the top highlight of his career, particularly if he racks up a few more titles before his career ends (or his obit is written).
However, given the magnitude of this flip-flop, I could easily see this making the second or third paragraph, the less-than-positive "And yet..." details that accompany most major figures.
Career-defining? No. Permanent scar? Yes.
The latest is that the Magic want Billy to break the contract; they won't do him any favors. Actually, they are still trying to convince him to keep the job. He won't, but this might drag out a few more days than expected. (via Orlando Sentinel)
Also: I have no problem with a settlement deal-point that Billy not be allowed to accept any NBA coaching offers for five years. After all: Isn't he returning to
R.I.P.: Bill France, the impresario behind NASCAR. You can have Lamar Hunt (NFL), Red Auerbach (NBA), Branch Rickey (MLB) or anyone else. For my money, the single most influential sports executive of all time – relative to his power over a single dedicated sport – is
(In honor of Bill France, a little rare mid-week NASCAR note: Congrats to Martin Truex, who earned his first-ever NASCAR victory, winning the Autism Speaks 400 at
MLB Stud: Mark Ellis, who hit for the cycle (in extra innings!) in a win against the Red Sox, apparently the first time a player has hit for the cycle against
MLB Dud: Lou Piniella, who was suspended for four games for his weekend tirade. "I will serve it and I will learn from the experience," he said. If "learn from the experience" means: "I now have even MORE effective techniques to kick dirt with my feet."
College World Series (Men's): Vandy shocked and ousted! The No. 1-seeded Commodores lost to
NFL: Tank Johnson suspended 8 games. Give Roger Goodell credit for consistency. (And even leniency: Johnson can have his suspension reduced by 2 games – to 6 total – for "good behavior." Carrot AND stick...)
NFL: Brady Quinn holding out? Interesting item on Pro Football Talk from the inimitable and indefatigable Michael David Smith about the prospects of Brady Quinn being a Browns holdout, which would be an even WORSE decision than his decision to be part of the NFL Draft green room. He has mountains of goodwill from
NFL Good News: Given that all we seem to hear about is bad news from the NFL, it's nice to have something good to talk about for a change. The Texans gave RB Samkon Gado some time off from practice to finish up an MCAT prep course. A player with "do-good" aspirations and a team willing to look beyond their own short-term priorities? How refreshing.
NBA Draft: Kevin Durant couldn't bench-press 185 pounds once at the pre-draft physical? That doesn't surprise me. His wingspan is, like, 7-foot-5? Even a quick glance at him shows he's probably never lifted weights in his life.
(I am surprised, however, that he wouldn't have been in some kind of aggressive strength program between the end of the college season and the pre-draft physical. Attention, Durant-Slurpers: If he's a weakling, it won't matter how good he is.)
Wow, OK: Read this blog post from the Oregonian's Jason Quick, then save yourself the trouble of worrying AT ALL which player should be taken No. 1 overall in the draft. It's Oden. Oden is a bigger freak than you ever thought he was. (h/t: MDS at Fanhouse. I told you: He's indefatigable!)
NBA Finals Update (Varsity Dad mash-up!): LeBron would skip the birth of his second child if it conflicted with playing in an NBA Finals game. We're talking about it over at Varsity Dad. Feel free to drop by and weigh in.
NBA Execs: Are the Grizzlies really going to hire
Kobe Watch (also filed under "Sneaker Watch"): According to Darren Rovell (who is a daily must-read),
Vick Scandal Update: Can things get stranger? How about the fact that Vick's alleged dog-fighting house was burglarized a few weeks ago?
NHL Stanley Cup: Ducks up 3-1 after Game 4 win in
MiLB: Phil Wellman suspended three games. Perhaps I'm late to the party, but have you seen the YouTube video of Braves minor league manager/nutcase Phil Wellman from Friday? Everyone else has, but I was late to it until yesterday. Here's the link.
The embarrassment isn't Wellman. The embarrassment is that the umps didn't have security haul his ass of the field earlier.
I appreciate that managerial freak-outs are part of the "charm" of baseball, but one of these days, someone's going to get hurt.
The funny thing is that Bobby Cox chalks it up to a quirky buddy. And John Schuerholtz doesn't seem to mind much either. How classy.
(Seriously: How does Wellman get a three-game suspension, but Lou Piniella get a four-game suspension?)
Olympics: Have you seen the newly unveiled London 2012 logo? It's awful. And it's designed to appeal to "the young people." Well, I'm kind of a young person, and it sucks.
Politics: Today's Must-Read is Deadspin's interview with Republican presidential candidate Tommy Thompson. When the presidential candidates are talking with sports-bloggers, things are looking very good for us. Next up: Barack Obama taking up my challenge for a game of H-O-R-S-E.
Today's "Danwagon" Bandwagon: Sam Presti, current assistant GM for the Spurs, likely new GM for the Sonics.
Why? Because youth rules, and Presti is 30 years old, which would make him the NBA's youngest GM by 5 years. Who WOULDN'T be jealous?
(Watch for the NBA to take an MLB-like turn toward the younger execs with the fresher perspectives. That's a great thing for the league.)
Sports Memorabilia: Normally, I'm not much of a memorabilia fan, but earlier this spring, I bought something because I figured I'd never get a chance to buy something like it again. Yesterday, it finally arrived: A piece of the floor from the GeorgiaDome that
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Kolb as trade bait?
File this one under the rumor category.
Pro Football Weekly speculates that the Eagles could try and showcase Kevin Kolb this year and use him as trade bait after the season:
With talk that Donovan McNabb could get an extension that could make him an Eagle for his entire career, it's interesting to note what might happen to Kevin Kolb, once believed to be the heir apparent at quarterback. Our sources continue to tell us that the Eagles like Kolb — just as the Packers liked Matt Hasselbeck once and the Patriots liked Matt Cassel after his breakout season. There just might not be a home for Kolb, who is signed through 2010. Don't be surprised if he is showcased a little bit this season, perhaps in a blowout or two, and then becomes trade bait next offseason.
Kolb was actually asked about this exact rumor during an interview with ESPN 950's Mike Missanelli earlier this week.
Here was his response:
"You know, I have no idea what's gonna happen," Kolb said. "And that's why as you get more years under your belt, you learn, like I said before, you just gotta take care of what's your problem on the field and the play will take care of everything else. Do I want to be an Eagle for my entire career? Yes, I want to stay here. And hopefully it works out for both Donovan and I, but whatever happens, it happens, and I don't have any control over it. I can just go out there and continue to play ball the best I know how."
The thought that the Eagles would showcase Kolb in blowouts seems a little silly to us. Would a team really base its decision to trade for a guy because of what he does in mop-up duty? Not sure that makes a whole lot of sense.
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You are right. Alleles were coded in 0/2 format in the plink .raw copy I was working with, and I divided with 2 to account for the two lines of descent from the common ancestor, but not with another 2 to account for the 0/2 format. This means that the age estimates posted in the blog [1] ought to be halved. This would make "Root" about 80ky, and CT about 31.5ky. These appear quite different from previous estimates, including the ones I originally got [2]
Looking at the original experiment [2] where I did divide with 2 twice, it seems that there are many more variant sites per pair of chromosomes; this is why the "Root" estimates for the two experiments end up similar.
Regressing the pairwise divergences of [1] on [2], I obtain:
Number of variant sites per pair of chromosomes using [1] = 215+ 0.07 * Number of variant sites per pair of chromosomes using [2]
So, it does appear that there is an excess of variant sites on average in [2] compared to [1].
Unfortunately, there is very little meta-data on the 1000 Genomes ftp site, so I don't know what to trust. If the phase1 data are to be trusted, then age estimates will appear quite smaller than those published by Karafet and Cruciani; but, perhaps, there was a little aggressive pruning of variants between the working data and the phase1 data? I guess we'll have to wait until the 1000 Genomes Project publishes on the topic to see which is the case. Thankfully, it seems that a lot of people are working on the Y-chromosome phylogeny [3], so I'm sure we'll find out more soon.
[1] http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/08/dates-of-major-clades-of-y-chromosome.html, using: http://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/phase1/analysis_results/integrated_call_sets/ [2] http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2012/07/estimating-age-of-y-chromosome-adam.html, using: http://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/ftp/technical/working/20111123_chrY_snps/ [3] http://dienekes.blogspot.gr/2012/08/ashg-2012-title-imputation-part-ii.html http://dna2012.gerichtsmedizin.at/files/DNA_in_Forensics_2012_program.pdf
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This represents my final take on the dating of major clades of the Y-chromosome phylogeny using 1000 Genomes SNPs from the phase1 dataset. When new data are added to the project, more haplogroups will turn up and the estimates will probably improve. Some of these may be slightly different than the original ones I posted, since there was a slight bug in the code I was using, and not all pairs between clades were compared.
I have also added the sample standard deviations for the age estimates; these do not take into account uncertainty regarding the mutation rate. Overall, it seems to me that with more samples, deep sequencing of the Y (as opposed to the low coverage of the 1000G Project), sequencing of larger regions of the Y, as well as a better estimate of the mutation rate (which can be achieved when many father-son full genomes become available), we are going to have a pretty crisp estimate of the ages of all the branching points of the tree.
- The greatest contrast in the human species is between the BT clade which is less than half the age of the most basal clade within this dataset; there are even more basal Y-chromosome lineages in African hunter-gatherers
- Most modern humans, including most Africans, belong to the BT haplogroup (~70k years). One can probably correlate the emergence of this haplogroup with a variety of archaeological events: arid periods in the Sahara and Arabian deserts, and the Toba eruption. The geographical origin of BT is currently unknown; the recent discovery of B haplogroup chromosomes in Iran and Afghanistan ought to give us pause about automatically assuming an African origin; the same can also be applied to Y*(xBT) chromosomes that also exist outside Africa in unusual places. Such chromosomes may represent recent gene flow and/or relics of great antiquity: they should be made the object of a study that will compare them to their African relatives.
- Marginally younger is the CT haplogroup, that includes the CF (Eurasian) subclade and the DE subclade (Afrasian). All of these have an age of around 60k years. If an ecological calamity is responsible for the coalescence of human Y-chromosomes at around this time, then it is easy to imagine how subsets of modern humans from the original homeland may have acquired their own unique clades. The CF clade may correspond to people who went to the Levant or Central Asia, from which they would launch the Upper Paleolithic, while the DE clade may correspond to people who stayed in the South, heading west (E) or east (D).
- The Upper Paleolithic/Lower Stone Age transition was probably made by these people 10-20 thousand years after they split up; I would wager that they already had the necessary mental "hardware" for the task, and the stress of the ecological calamity that befell them spurred them to develop the necessary "software" as well, and so did the fact that they found themselves in unfamiliar surroundings and had to quickly adapt. Hence, the appearance of full behavioral modernity sensu Klein. The major lineages that continue to dominate most humans (IJK and E) trace their origin to this crucial transitional period (50k years).
- The West Eurasian clade IJ seems to have emerged earlier (37k years) than the East Eurasian clade NO (33k years) and the Central Asian-Siberian (?) clade P (also 33k years). This may be suggestive of the route taken by modern humans in Eurasia as they moved to the east.
- There seems to be a plethora of important lineages that coalesce around the Last Glacial Maximum (I, J, O, R1). Perhaps this too was a stressful period for humans resulting in a loss of diversity and the survival of a few lineages from the early arrivals. In the case of haplogroup I which is truly European in distribution it is tempting to imagine that it represents the emergence of the Gravettians, while its sibling J stayed in the Near East, where IJ* chromosomes have recently been found.


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