Modern, moderate Dubai, the hope of Dinesh D'Souza, steps up its Sharia adherence. "Farewell flambe: Dubai to hunt for booze in food," from Associated Press, March 22 (thanks to all who sent this in):
[...] Media reports today say Dubai authorities plan to step up enforcement of a 2003 law prohibiting restaurants from using booze in food preparation.Alcoholic drinks are widely available in Dubai and the 2003 law has been mostly disregarded.
But the latest move appears aimed at easing worries from Muslim restaurant goers that no wine or liquor were used in preparing their meals. Fines for violators can run nearly $5,500.
Several Dubai chefs have argued that strict enforcement of the ban would compromise their dishes. They are in talks with the municipality for less severe regulations.
Good luck with that.
Those planeloads of food from Fauchon and Hediard upon which those waddling-by-the-wadi Al-Saud and Al-Maktoum and Al-Thani and al-this and al-that batten are laden with alcohol. Those babas au rhum, those jams with whiskey or cognac -- my god, if they wanted to avoid any trace of alcohol, they've been ordering in from the wrong country.
I'm not going to be sending them a Christmas rum cake this year.
I would have thought that a flambe might have got away with it as the cooking gets rid of the alcohol (but not the effects on the cooking). I'm probably wrong.
No doubt there is a hadith on "intoxicants" (I just haven't looked in detail yet) where the Prophet Muhammad pointed some nomadic goat-herd on "the right path" just as the poor guy was about to drink some wine.
Time for some pork in a white wine sauce I feel.
"where the Prophet Muhammad"
Here K_E let me adjust that for you
"where the false Prophet Muhmmad"
Not picking on you, it's an adjustment I'm working on myself.
No doubt mouthwash will be next...
I remember in dubai that arabs have plenty of alcohol - they employ a foreign domestic and use his/her booze allowance....
I also remember that this is not some hearsay because I was once on beach in Dubai as a child and these Arab men came up to me and offered for me to go with them as they had alcohol.
Of course I didn't go.
Whilst I knew they had alcohol, I was not aware just how much Moslems like little boy bum until recently.
And such awareness is not just from recent media reports but now I am an adult, other adults who have lived in the Arab world or where the Arab sex tourists travel have told me.
The really religious Muslims better get used to having only bread and water as that is all the officers of corruption and vice will allow...
Correct, Flambe` for example purges ALL alcohol. It's usually brandy or calvados.
Wine used in cooking (note : cooking) also as far as any alcohol content is concerned has now dissipated at boiling point.
Cold vinaigrette's, for example, do retain alcohol if say Sherry went ito them.
As for our Jihad friends and what they eat, then the sooner it's a slow IED without booze, the better !
I can remember in the 80's that in the UAE booze was tolerated provided there were no displays of public intoxication and provided the booze was legally imported and not smuggled or home-made.
In hotels catering for kaffir alcoholics, the hotel could stock a bar for guests. Propping up the bar were Arabs, some wearing crucifixes that would probably claim to be Christian Syrians, Lebanese or Palestinians and also claim to be visiting a hotel resident.
Cars would back up to the loading bay at the back of the hotel and locals would take away cases of booze for private parties. If anyone had done the maths then the average alcohol consumption of each hotel guest would be many times the fatal dose of alcohol poisoning.
So using beer batter in preparing fried fish is verboten? Fantastic!!!
Like Kuffar England said above, look forward to that pork in a white wine sauce. Make it baby back ribs.