Text 1858, 53 rader
Skriven 2007-05-23 23:42:18 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
   Kommentar till text 1835 av Everett Hertenstein (1:116/27.0)
Ärende: Cooking Terms
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Hi, Everett!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

EH>  I had been intending for some time to ask about Nora's health.


          Touch wood... she's doing very well.  (Or, in British English, "Knock
on wood."  It's a way of scaring off evil spirits who might want to mess things
up if they feel we're content with the status quo.)  She's still working on her
therapy & going to college two days a week.  Regarding the former, I'm told the
majority of people give up after about a year... maybe at least in part because
others say they won't make much progress beyond that.  But when I was younger I
often went ahead & did things because I was too naive to realize they "couldn't
be done", and I'm happy to see my daughter following in my footsteps... [grin].



EH>  Apparently she is doing OK if she is exploring spices.


          I think so too.  I did some research a few months ago, hoping to find
out why she enjoys hot peppers so much.  I learned that they have been used for
medicinal purposes for a long time.  Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, for
example, they were apparently more effective in curing bacterial illnesses than
whatever the average family doctor had to offer.  And the list goes on....  :-)



EH>  I'm not a big fan of very hot peppers, but some of them have
EH>  very nice flavors when used in moderation.  Is a liquid pepper
EH>  preparation called "Tabasco" available in B.C.?


          Yes.  In fact, I nearly rolled on the floor with laughter when I read
in MAD magazine that "You know you're really married when you're on your second
bottle of Tabasco sauce."  We were on our second bottle at the time.   We're on
our third or fourth bottle now.  But we've slowed down a bit because Nora keeps
requesting various other things like "A$$ Kickin' Louisiana Hot Sauce"....  ;-)



EH>  It's made on an island just off shore in Louisiana.


          Oops.  All parents... be warned!  Whatever you do your kids will go a
step further.  Or maybe they'll do the opposite.  My parents' generation cooked
their food thoroughly to make sure it was good & dead because the "germ theory"
wasn't very well understood years ago.  Now I tend toward the opposite....  :-)




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