Text 36608, 100 rader
Skriven 2013-05-02 20:37:52 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 36554 av Dave Drum (66463.cooking)
Ärende: Current Non-Events
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Hi Dave,

 RH> Governor John Brown of KY married Phyllis George, Miss America 1971
 RH> (think I;m right on the year she won, somewhere in that time frame).

 DD> Then he ditched her for another one. She was his second of three
 DD> marriages.

 RH> OK, I don't pay that much attention to things like that so I wasn't
 RH> aware of it. I do know that she helped bring about a revival of
 RH> interest in the quilts of the Appalachian region, especially in KY.

 DD> I don't pay a lot of attention to it either - but, standing in a
 DD> stupormarkup checkout line waiting for the cellulite afflicted lady in
 DD> the lime-green spandex to unload her trolley onto the belt whilst
 DD> screaming at her bratty urchins one tends to scan the conveniently

Not a pretty picture. Buggy was probably filled with all kinds of junk
food too. (G)


 DD> placed tabloids ... if only to avoid looking at the carnage just
 DD> ahead. But, the stuff about the quilts never made the cover of Weakly
 DD> World News.   Bv)=

No, but being a quilter, it made my radar screen.

 DD> http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/

 DD> All of which you may or may not know - or want to know. But it's one
 DD> of the most overlooked, all-around useful plants in America. Euell
 DD> Gibbons would be proud of me.   Bv)=

 RH> I've read a good bit about it and have a bottle of Pappy's Sassafras
 RH> Extract (for tea) in my fridge.

 DD> I seem to remember some kerfluffle about the saffrole in sassafras
 DD> being a potential carcinogen and going to check out the alarmist

 RH> Seems that is said of so many different foods. Truth to it, I don't
 RH> know but the alarmists make it more difficult knowing what's really
 RH> healthy, what isn't.

 DD> Save me from a health/environmental Nazi with a cause! My friend
 DD> Larry, who recently retired from the Illinois Environmental Protection
 DD> Agency, says that every couple of years there is a consensus on
 DD> something new to demonise - as a "job security" measure. OSHA seems
 DD> the same way.

Why am I not surprised? Is it the state head honchos that get together
and decide or the feds sticking their noses into places where they
shouldn't be, decreeing that kind of nonsense instead of investigating
real issues?

 DD> propaganda. It's sort of like the big scare tactic over Pepsi Cola
 DD> causing cancer in mice. For a humern bean to get cancer from Burpsie
 DD> Cola he'd have to drink something like six or seven gallons a day for
 DD> several months. IOW - a tempest in a teapot.

 RH> Same with some of these artificial sweeteners; you would have to ingest
 RH> several pounds worth for an extended time to have any harm from them.
 RH> We go with the natural one tho, Stevia.

 DD> I've been drinking sassafras tea and root beer since I can remember
 DD> and I'm not dead (yet).

 RH> I've had root beer off and on over the years, can remember making it as
 RH> well, but I'm still not dead either. IIRC, to make it we needed a 5 lb
 RH> bag of sugar, yeast, Hires root beer extract and water. My folks had a
 RH> capping widget and a collection of bottles, probably saved from sodas
 RH> they'd bought years before they started making it.  Not quite as easy
 RH> as Sodastream but it probably tasted better. (G)

 DD> And less expensive than Sodastream - the recharge canisters are
 DD> semi-outrageous in cost. FEH!!!

I've never priced the Sodastream stuff but some of the radio talk show
hosts were shilling it last year. Some stores had it featured as a "must
have gift" as well. Not in my book.

 DD>       Title: Appalachian Mountain Cobbler
 DD>  Categories: Pastry, Desserts, Fruits
 DD>       Yield: 8 servings

 DD>   Recipe By: Extending the Table; Mennonite Central Committee

I believe I added that book to my collection a few years back (getting
up and checking), yes, I did.


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Ruth
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