SC - RE:Bread and Rise Time

[Decker, Terry D.]

"Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> 
> Interesting. When I have a cold or allergy problems, I tend to go for
> szechwan, curry, or good mexican food. With lots of hot tea and fruit
> juice. (And since Autumn has suddenly hit my corner of Oregon, guess
> what I've been eating for the past few days?...)
> 
> 'Lainie

Left to my own devices, I'd probably do the same. I suspect there's a
moderate dose of masochism (or at least extreme toughness) in the
average chilihead. Your post brings back fond memories of a Hunan dish I
had a while back, which resembled, for all the world, your basic
southern Chinese pepper steak, except the sauce was thin and just barely
glazed everything (which may be a quality rather than a stylistic
issue). Oh, yeah. The green peppers were chilis, and were the only
vegetables involved. Talk about essential.
 
But as I said, I'm pretty sure the mechanism that allows this to work
for cold symptoms is that irritated mucus membranes make more gunk to
protect themselves, but the gunk they produce is more watery, enabling
it to be removed (use your imagination!) more easily.

Anybody got some tissues? And please pass the vindaloo...

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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