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the violent democracy where solids surrender their texture and dignity in one screaming blender second
means To puree something is to grind, blend, or press food into a smooth, thick, uniform pulp — or the resulting smooth mass itself.
from Straight from French purée, the past participle of the old verb purer, 'to purify or strain,' which traces back to Latin purare, 'to make pure,' from purus, 'clean, unmixed.' So the word carries a quiet irony: what we now achieve by violent blending was once imagined as a kind of cleansing — pressing food through a sieve until only the pure, smooth essence remained.
- French roots
- means purified, from medieval cooking jargon
- Baby food
- first commercial jars hit shelves in 1928
- Soup smuggler
- hides vegetables kids would otherwise interrogate
- NASA worthy
- pureed meals fed early astronauts in space
baby food stage 1 — gerber and beech-nut's first solid foods for infants 4-6 months, smooth purees of single vegetables or fruits
commercial tomato sauce — san marzano tomato purees from italy, basis for most canned pasta sauces since the 1950s