What is in my food? My tea?

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Christian F. Puglisi
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Wednesday 29 August 2012

Copenhagen Cooking food festival

2nd of September 2012

The five participating star chefs will each guide you through their personal interpretation of “smørrebrød”.

"Denmark is known worldwide for the servings of high quality “smørrebrød” (Open-sandwiches) and to Danes,
mastering the making of a beautiful piece is a growing trend."

(Almost too beautiful to eat!)

 

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Arsenic content in rice is too high, but....

Pfizer's Fight to Keep Arsenic in Chicken Feed
April 04, 2012

The drug retained its FDA approval.

“Why [is Pfizer] now spending so much money on top drawer lobbyists to fight a ban on a drug they don’t make anymore?” Hucker asked.

"The FDA found that chickens that had eaten the Roxarsone had higher levels of inorganic arsenic, as opposed to organic arsenic,
which is naturally occurring - in their livers than chickens which had not eaten the Roxarsone. "

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/loc...cle_0ecc5758-91f7-11e0-a572-001a4bcf6878.html

June 09, 2011

60 years of feeding arsenic to chickens, ends. Why did they add it to the feed ? Rosy, healthy looking breast meat.

Maryland would be the first state to successfully ban arsenic in chicken feed.

"Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is expected to sign the bill this week, making Maryland the first state to end a practice
in existence since 1944. The law would take effect Jan. 1 for hundreds of growers on the Eastern Shore that continue
to use Roxarsone as an antibiotic with a side effect that bursts blood vessels, making meat look pink and plump.

FDA has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic.

What's the name of this manufacturer that has been putting arsenic in the chicken feed for all these years? Pfizer!

Chicken feed product known as Roxarsone-

Roxarsone chicken feed is a subsidiary of Pfizer, called Alpharma LLC. Even though Alpharma now has agreed to pull
this toxic feed chemical off the shelves in the United States.

Well-paid Pfizer lobbyists working with the poultry industry representatives vying to prevent the bill's passage-

Delmarva Poultry Industry, a lobby group, argued in hearings that state regulation was unnecessary because
Roxarsone was a federally licensed and approved drug.

The lobby also said the voluntary suspension of the drug by Pfizer voided the need for a state ban, even though Pfizer
could theoretically restart distribution of Roxarsone at any time.

That loophole is the reason Nachman and others question why the FDA did not suspend the drug. He said the agency
waited too long to develop the test that discovered inorganic arsenic in the chicken.

Chicken litter containing arsenic is fed to cows in factory beef operations. Cattle litter is fed to chickens. Growth hormone, antibiotics, and what else ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/opinion/kristof-arsenic-in-our-chicken.html?_r=0

 

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Arsenic- has always been with us- will always be with us- cotton boll weevil- tobacco hornworm.
American government gives one arsenic product permission to stay. (2012)

Arsenic poisoning was such a widespread concern that the Roman Consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla issued the Lex Cornelia
in 82 B.C. outlawing arsenic poisoning.

EPA banned residential uses of arsenic-based wood preservatives in 2004

Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786)
http://www.chem.yale.edu/~chem125/125/history99/2Pre1800/Scheele/Scheele.html

One of his creations was the green pigment copper arsenite, which as "Scheele's green" became a popular coloring for confections,
until it was discovered half a century later to be poisonous. Presence of this pigment in the bedroom wallpaper of Napoleon in exile
on St. Helena may have been a factor in his demise.

In 1893 an Italian Biochemist called Gosio worked out what was happening.

Scheele's Green was a colouring pigment that had been used in fabrics and wallpapers from about 1770.
It was named after the Swedish chemist Scheele who invented it. The pigment was easy to make and
was a bright green colour but under certain circumstances the copper arsenite could be deadly. Gosio
discovered that if wallpaper containing Scheele's Green became damp and then became mouldy, the
mould could carry out a chemical process to get rid of the copper arsenite. It converted it to a vapour
form of arsenic, normally a mixture of arsine, dimethyl and trimethyl arsine which was very poisonous.
If Napoleon's wallpaper had been green, it could possibly have contained arsenic, and this could have
been the source of the arsenic in the hair sample. Napoleon might have been an early victim of Gosio's
disease.

http://www.victorianweb.org/history/arsenic.html

The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
- James C. Whorton

"Shepherds' wives were *particularly vulnerable, thanks to the way that arsenic from the sheep dip transferred
itself into the kitchen through poorly rinsed buckets and hands. And even when arsenic was given a different
colour by being mixed with other materials in commercial products, it could still be mistaken for food by the
particularly greedy or short-sighted.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/arsenic-century-james-whorton-review

The poison was used in the production of green dyes, which were incorporated into everything from ribbons to playing cards.

1858 Bradford arsenic deaths

Calcium sulphate was used in place of sugar, in the making of "peppermint humbugs." In 1858 a sweet maker in Bradford sent
somebody to obtain some from a druggist. However by mistake the druggists assistant picked up some arsenic thinking it was
calcium sulphate. The arsenic was added to the sweets. As a result 200 people became seriously ill and 20 died

Wool in manufacture is treated with arsenic as a preservative
Buffalo hides treated in the field with arsenic powder

Arsenic as an insect killer
Arsenic as a rat killer

Arsenic used to whiten the skin
Arsenic used to "cure" disease
Fowler's solution, salvarsan
medical preparations

WCVB Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns about its supply from China.
Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve.

“I don’t know what it is,” Desmarais said. “It’s not soluble, and it doesn’t appear to be sodium fluoride. So we are not quite sure what it is.”

Desmarais said the residue clogs his machines and makes it difficult to get a consistent level of fluoride in the town’s water.
Since April the fluoride pumps in Amesbury have been turned off and they will stay that way until Desmarais can find
out what’s in the fluoride that’s imported from China.

"The new facility removes arsenic, iron, manganese and radon from the town's drinking water and brings it into compliance with federal
standards for trace arsenic. It also removes the iron and manganese particulates that have resulted in the discolored water that has
led to complaints from residents for years."
http://www.newburyportnews.com/local/x40350264/Water-Treatment-Plant-open-house-Aug-30

The Gold Rush in America

The 20th most common element in the Earth's crust and a by-product of mining for metals such as copper, gold and zinc, arsenic
was more readily available than ever during the Industrial Revolution

Before the Dust Bowl in America

Arsenic poured on everything, everywhere

Arsenic dip for the cattle- Northern cattle are not immune to Texas cattle disease. Mexican and Southern cattle are.

Crop dusting with arsenic.

 

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I don't like tea.

 

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The prettiest orange flowers, for a salad-

http://www.thaicarving.co.uk/php/carnation.php

 

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Adulterated peanuts get into everything-

10/15/2012

Mondelēz Global LLC Conducts Voluntary U.S. Recall of Green & Black’s Organic Peanut and Sea Salt Milk Chocolate Bar Due to Possible Health Risk

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm324043.htm

 

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There will not be any peanut butter cups in the Halloween candy cauldron. *haz a sad*

It was a good thing, that they caught the problem and did a recall before Halloween.

 

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I don't like tea.

That's because it sucks.

 

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There will not be any peanut butter cups in the Halloween candy cauldron. *haz a sad*

It was a good thing, that they caught the problem and did a recall before Halloween.

MY friend Terry is allergic to peanuts, and this one time, he was drunk as hell, and I was stoned as hell, and I was driving around with a bunch of my friends who were in various states of intoxication, and so we decided to stop at this gas station to get snacks. We went inside, and honest to motherfucking god, there was a cop buying doughnuts. And so I was like, "Shit! Everybody act not drunk and/or high." But Terry was shitfaced. Like, could barely talk and/or walk shitfaced. So I, being the good friend that I was, was like, "Well I'm gonna watch this play out and see if he gets arrested for obvious public intoxication."

Well, he managed to get a pack of Reece Cups and some other shit fine, bought my pop like I had asked him, and we got back in the car. He was half-way through his second Reece Cup when he starts weezing and sounding like he's fucking dying from not being able to breath. So I hear another friend of mine screaming about how he's dying from the backseat, so I turn around and that motherfucker's neck is swollen up HUGE and freaky. And so I'm like, "SHIT FUCK WE GOTTA TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL."

Anyway, long story short, we took him to the hospital and he had had an allergic reaction. And when he was better we were like, "WTF, T?"

And he legit says, "I didn't know there were peanuts in Reece Cups."

 

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whiskey in your water

that's a no no...

 

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Twinkie withdrawal ? Have a clone- Thanks to Todd Wilbur
(In Nov 17 issue of Boston Herald)
look up Top Secret Recipes online
There is even a youtube for help

egg whites
16 OZ box of golden pound cake mix
2/3 cup of water

Filling
very hot water
salt
2 cups marshmallow creme (7 OZ jar)
1/2 cup shortening
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla (vinilla?)

Oven 325F

Forget the instructions on the box of pound cake
Beat the 4 egg whites until stiff
In another bowl, combine cake mix with water(cold)
mix it well, fold egg whites into mix GENTLY but
thoroughly

bake 30 minutes in little coffin shaped molds that you make yourself
(aluminum foil wrapped around a spice bottle?)
10 molds needed
Put on cookie sheet or shallow baking pan

Filling

Get out the mixer and beaters
Mix 2 teaspoons of very hot water and salt
Let it cool
Combine marshmallow creme with shortening, powdered sugar and vanilla
mix it well with the electric mixer on high
Get out the pastry bag and tips or improvise
Fill it
Are the cakes cooled off?
Flip them upside down and make spaces for the filling
Three small holes made with a chopstick or skewer will do
Fill! Enjoy!

 

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In Colorado, a special ingredient will be added to the collection of Thanksgiving Day dishes, this year.

The traditional airing of Alice's Restaurant on NPR, will get hysterical giggles.
Even the vegetarians will be napping, all over the house.

What is in this stuffing ? Herbs! (Is it classified as a herb?)

 

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Now I understand why someone might just open cans, and make food from ready made mixes.
I know what is in my pie. All my favorite natural, organic things- made from the original ingredients.
Real pumpkins, maple syrup, fresh eggs, real cinnamon stick, real ginger pieces, molasses. Organic dairy butter and milk.

To think of the poor Pilgrim and Puritan ladies, slaving over a hot fireplace.They [the ladies] worked all day,
to cook the treats-
(not to mention milk the cow, make the butter, grate the sugar loaf, grind the spices, fetch the eggs, cook down the maple sap, tend the fire)
and the food they prepared was wolfed down in minutes by the children and the menfolk.

Hopefully, the ladies from the past were not too exhausted to hold their tongues. There were penalties for such trespasses. *shakes head*

 

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My sinuses are blocked. I cannot taste the subtle fragrance of this white tea.
All that I can taste is tannin. Toasted almonds and tangerines fix the problem.

"The almond is botanically a stone fruit related to the cherry, the plum, and the peach.
Their exact ancestry in unknown, but almonds are thought to have originated in China and Central Asia."

Tea and oranges, all the way from China....(and almonds!)

 

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Eureka! I have found it. We had a Brit chain restaurant that served up many kinds of ale and lager.
(Downtown Crossing ) My favorite treat was Cheddar and tomato pizza, with baked potato on the side.

I found the cheddar with the familiar taste-

"Westminster Cheddar is made on the farm, a few miles from the village that gave Cheddar its name.
It has been made by the same family for 6 generations, the longest continuous cheddar producers in the world."

It only took 10 (????) years.

 

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Marilyn Monroe sang a line, about this-

http://www.theautomat.net/

http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/mphandh.htm

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes....one-but-its-recipes-are-in-demand/?ref=dining

Did they have DDT ? dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

 

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Feeding the swine chestnuts, gives the bacon, a taste like bacon- raised to the ninth power ?

 

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Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens

author- Andrew Beahrs
Publication Date: June 24, 2010
Penguin Books; Reprint edition (October 25, 2011)

{gsgs comment- Samuel Clemens did not have to face American food deserts of 2013.}

"Food deserts are areas that lack access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains,
lowfat milk, and other foods that make up the full range of a healthy diet."

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/FoodDeserts/

 

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I am guessing that I would not like Winter as much, if I could not get real miso. It is meant to be Alive.

 

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Hundreds of horse carcasses contaminated with the painkiller bute are likely to have been exported by British abattoirs
for human consumption, the head of the Food Standards Agency has admitted-

Poor, worn out, old Dobbin/Dobby the Hobby horse- Full of illegal drugs used in the horse racing trade-
Sent to the Euro- Union countries to be eaten for dinner by people.

Horse carcasses taken from Mexican sources, Brazilian sources, Argentina sources- (American sources ?)

Draap is ‘‘horse’’ spelled backward in Dutch.

A Cyprus-registered company called ‘‘Draap Trading Ltd.’’ moved to the center of Europe’s horse meat mislabeling scandal from
Wednesday, as it emerged that a man with the same name as the owner of Draap was convicted of fraud for passing off
horse meat as beef by a Dutch court last year.

Court documents in the city of Breda, Netherlands, show a Jan Fasen was convicted on Jan. 18, 2012 as the main suspect in a
case where hundreds of thousands of kilograms of horse meat or horse meat mixed with beef were mislabeled as containing only
beef and sold to two unnamed French buyers.

In the 2012 case, Fasen’s company Fasen Meat Trading BV and its accomplice Windmeijer Meat Trading BV sourced cheap
horse meat from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, marked it up, and sold it in on, in some cases certified as being Halal: that is,
pure beef slaughtered according to Muslim dietary laws.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/eu...eat-scandal/11dnvmMAiYNFrn8qloJ09O/story.html

Strange and conflicting accounts-
Cyprus claims none of the horse meat made it into the system, yet it destroys tons of meat.
Denials that Draap LTD, was to blame, and yet- the news is out that the owner has been caught before.
hmmm....

 

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February 20, 2013

Horsemeat in 'beef' dishes has now been confirmed in products found in Britain, Ireland, France, Austria, Norway,
The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Slovenia.

German horsemeat traced to Poland
Monday February 25, 2013

News magazine Spiegel says horsemeat found in beef products withdrawn from German shelves
has been traced to a supplier in Poland.

Spiegel says beef products with traces of horse found in goulash sold by low-cost retailer Aldi
were produced by German firm Dreistern Konserven, which in turn bought its meat via a dealer
from Mipol, a Polish-based firm.

Dreistern Konserven acknowledged in a statement on its website that traces of horse DNA had
been discovered in its products but insisted it was merely a processing firm.

(German firm, H.J. Schypke also claims it bought processed meat, and had no part in the horsemeat scandal.)

 

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Splash! North Korea drops things in the sea. Failed launches equal debris.

The most lovely, delicious crabs come from North Korea. Who knew ?

North Korea sells the crabs, to some. Who process them, and sell them to America.
I do not expect that most of the crabs, are flown to America. They are very delicate
and sensitive crabs.

"They slap on their own brands." (American buyers, slap on their own brands.)
- Mr Qu Baojie, respected and honored owner of Crab Earth Crab Heaven

Way to fuck up a wet dream, wankers.

Tuesday's NY Times
March 5, 2013
International section
page A11

 

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"....a starter of portobello mushrooms stuffed with Red King crab, Alaska clam chowder, a roast duck salad,
a 14-ounce drunken rib eye and a fruit tart for dessert. ....bottle of Dom Perignon [for] the 'after-dinner mint.'"

Boston ? No!

http://www.adn.com/2013/03/07/2815621/musher-in-1st-will-get-fancy-dinner.html

 

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"....a starter of portobello mushrooms stuffed with Red King crab, Alaska clam chowder, a roast duck salad,
a 14-ounce drunken rib eye and a fruit tart for dessert. ....bottle of Dom Perignon [for] the 'after-dinner mint.'"

Boston ? No!

http://www.adn.com/2013/03/07/2815621/musher-in-1st-will-get-fancy-dinner.html

Cool article. Sounds ike a big meal but:

The best scenario is that musher sits down to enjoy the meal. But there's also the possibility that he or she might just grab a few bites and hit the door to get back on the trail if they have a musher on their tail, Fraser said.

"If the musher doesn't have time to eat, if he just grabs the steak and runs, that means the race is hot, that means the race is exciting, and so we're excited, too" Fraser said.

 

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I forgot to add a tip of the hat, to thør
who keeps us up to date, on the mushers
and all the delicious seafood in Alaska.

Must have good choppers, that are plenty sharp, in order to munch a steak, while on the run.
(My jaw is getting sore, just thinking about doing that! )