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Favor curry to curry favor
Jul. 12th, 2005 03:51 amA study out of Houston says a substance in tumeric fights melanoma. Tumeric is an essential ingredient in most curries -- Indian, Thai, Chinese...mmmm...curry. I am indebted to my Thai friend for teaching me to make curry from scratch. It is not a trivial process, but very rewarding. I am always on the lookout for cilantro with roots intact, and I cut them off and freeze them for use in curries. Fresh tumeric is really hard to find here! Don't even start talking eggplant. I only recently stumbled on a pickled version of the tiny round bitter ones essential for green curry -- no, not the zebra striped ones, the tiny ones. And I'm glad it's summer. That increases my chances for procuring the right basil and mint. Put it all together and it's transcendental....
When we were in Thailand, it seemed like we were eating all the time. Everything was extremely fresh. Thai people don't like leftovers. Refrigerators were for ice and Coke. They served beer over ice! Everywhere we ate was very clean, even if it only had one wall and a dirt floor. The only place we ever got sick was at a European style cafe. Bad news, that place. Still, even though I was eating whatever I wanted, my blood sugar was extremely stable and I lost weight. I even drank sugar cane juice and it didn't spike my sugars. The Thai don't use many refined sugars as a rule, but as the US encroaches with McD's and Burger King, that is changing. So is the rate of obesity and heart disease. We're exporting our leading product to them!
My new computer is here!!!! We're still setting her up, but she will be in my hands by tomorrow night. Her name is Inara. My first Mac.
Okay. Let's play my first computer. I've wanted to do this for some time now. Two questions: #1 What was the first computer you used, #2: What was the first computer you owned.
#1: First used was a PDP 11. It was at the Physics Dept at Lewis and Clarck College. I had to keypunch cards to input into it. We were integrating spectra from eclipsing binaries, and needed to do lots of square roots.
#2: First owned was home built. It had a Heathkit terminal (the keyboard was not detachable). NO hard disk (what is a hard drive?). 20 Kilobyte 8" floppy drive. CP/M operating system.
Anyone reading this is tagged. Let's see if we can pass it along to someone who can beat this!
When we were in Thailand, it seemed like we were eating all the time. Everything was extremely fresh. Thai people don't like leftovers. Refrigerators were for ice and Coke. They served beer over ice! Everywhere we ate was very clean, even if it only had one wall and a dirt floor. The only place we ever got sick was at a European style cafe. Bad news, that place. Still, even though I was eating whatever I wanted, my blood sugar was extremely stable and I lost weight. I even drank sugar cane juice and it didn't spike my sugars. The Thai don't use many refined sugars as a rule, but as the US encroaches with McD's and Burger King, that is changing. So is the rate of obesity and heart disease. We're exporting our leading product to them!
My new computer is here!!!! We're still setting her up, but she will be in my hands by tomorrow night. Her name is Inara. My first Mac.
Okay. Let's play my first computer. I've wanted to do this for some time now. Two questions: #1 What was the first computer you used, #2: What was the first computer you owned.
#1: First used was a PDP 11. It was at the Physics Dept at Lewis and Clarck College. I had to keypunch cards to input into it. We were integrating spectra from eclipsing binaries, and needed to do lots of square roots.
#2: First owned was home built. It had a Heathkit terminal (the keyboard was not detachable). NO hard disk (what is a hard drive?). 20 Kilobyte 8" floppy drive. CP/M operating system.
Anyone reading this is tagged. Let's see if we can pass it along to someone who can beat this!
