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Old 09-14-2012, 08:22 PM
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At sea level, water boils at 100 degrees. At the summit of Mount Everest, the boiling point of water is 71 degrees. To boil water at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the temperature would need to be around 33000 degrees!
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:31 PM
 
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At sea level, water boils at 100 degrees. At the summit of Mount Everest, the boiling point of water is 71 degrees. To boil water at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the temperature would need to be around 33000 degrees!
That is true. However, at higher sea level, longer time would be needed to cook certain foods as the lower temperature would account for something.
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:33 PM
 
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Mix geography and food.

San Francisco is the only place where you can get authentic sour dough bread. Why? The atmospheric conditions in San Francisco are unique and for this reason, it won't be the same if made somewhere else.
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:34 PM
 
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Mix geography and food.

San Francisco is the only place where you can get authentic sour dough bread. Why? The atmospheric conditions in San Francisco are unique and for this reason, it won't be the same if made somewhere else.
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:48 PM
 
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Mongolia is more than twice the size of France,but has fewer people than the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area.
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:49 PM
 
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Only about 5% of the Gobi desert is actually sand. Most of it is scrub land, rock, and grasslands.
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Old 09-14-2012, 09:51 PM
 
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Even in Siberia, the steppe can be found.
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Old 09-14-2012, 10:29 PM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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Mix geography and food.

San Francisco is the only place where you can get authentic sour dough bread. Why? The atmospheric conditions in San Francisco are unique and for this reason, it won't be the same if made somewhere else.
Sourdough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Origin is 'Ancient Egypt', so clearly you can get 'authentic' sourdough bread elsewhere.
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Old 09-14-2012, 10:30 PM
 
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List of elevation extremes by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The top 9 highest countries (with highest elevation) are in Asia.
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Old 09-14-2012, 11:42 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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San Francisco is the only place where you can get authentic sour dough bread. Why? The atmospheric conditions in San Francisco are unique and for this reason, it won't be the same if made somewhere else.

That is only true if you define "authentic" to mean "made in San Francisco". What happens to a sourdough bread recipe if you try to make in Daly City? In fact, sourdough didn't even originate in San Francisco, but in the gold rush country in the Sierras, where, obviously, atmospheric conditions were correct for sourdough.
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