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Thursday, December 3. 2020
Quite a few things:
- Our bread, and in general, our food, never have sugar added. I mean, if I got bread, and it tastes sugary, I never buy that again. Bread is not supposed to be sugary.
- We eat a lot less processed food.
- Our cities are walkable. I, for example, live in Madrid, and don’t even have a car. I’m at 15 min. walk from my work. I go walking to buy groceries and generally everything.
- This is a personal pet peeve of mine: what happens with the gluten-free mania you have there? I mean, if you are celiac (which is an objective thing that have its own test), then I can understand… but the rest? Gluten is protein, and one of the most complete proteins that you’ll find in the vegetal world… and you remove it from the bread??? Are you fucking crazy, people? I generally like breads with as much gluten as you can find; they are generally more airy, the crust is tastier, and is a lot more healthy. There is nothing like a Hogaza Gallega.
- Fats. If you don’t gorge yourself in sugars, you have space to eat healthy fats. Olive oil, the main one, but also fats that go with meat and fish. Likewise, if you don’t gorge on sugars and added starches of processed food, you can eat more starches. I eat French fries most days; of course, not the frozen stuff: directly cut from the potato, and fried in good olive oil. Good fats are important to be healthy, help raise testosterone and quite a few other things; if you avoid the hydrogenated shit of processed food, you have space for them in your calorie budget.
- Sugary drinks. We have those, but we don’t have the same culture that you have. We drink it sometimes, but generally the zero version. They are also crap, but at least not sugary shit; and we don’t drink them that frequently.
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Friday, November 6. 2020
Brightly coloured plants add crunch to your lunch – and healthy vitamins, too. No wonder parents everywhere say, “Eat your vegetables!”
What vegetables do you munch? That partly depends on where you live and what plants grow there. In Indonesia, many people enjoy asinan, a tasty dish usually made of mustard leaves, bean sprouts, bean paste, radishes, and peanuts. All these planrs thrive in the hot, wet climate. In China, the root of the lotus flower is sliced for salads.
People serve lots of cabbage, carrots, and potatoes in the United Kingdom, where the weather is wet and mild, in sunny Mexico, people eat red peppers, green peppers, and maize.
Beetroot grows well in cool places, and cooks in Poland, Russia, and Scandinavia make a delicious beetroot soup called borscht.
Right now, wonderful vegetables from far away are waiting at your shop. Try a new one today! With so many colourful, crunchy choices, you might want to eat only vegetables.
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Friday, November 6. 2020
Growing rice is hard but important work. In many Asian countries, the word rice is also the word for rice.
An old Chinese story tells how rice became good to eat. At one time, the grains of the rice plant were empty and not good as food. One day a goddess saw people suffering because they were always hungry. To help the people, the goddess secretly filled the grains with milk. That made the rice good to eat. From then on, people were not so hungry.
The story shows how important rice is. For more than half the people in the world, rice has been the main course at every meal for thousands of years.
Southeast Asia’s hot, wet climate is perfect for growing rice. Farm families in China, Vietnam, and other rice-growing countries plant young rice seedlings in large, flooded fields. When the rice begins to ripen, they drain the water from the fields. At harvest time, they gather and dry the rice.
Rice is much, much more than food. Rice is used to make alcohol, paper, cosmetics, glue, starch, paste, and vinegar. Rice stalks are used to make brooms, hats, mats, rope, sacks and sandals.
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