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[Elaine Koogler]

Odd about the bananas...I've been told by a doctor that they work well on cramped
muscles to help prevent them.  In fact I understand that pregnant women are
encouraged to eat them to prevent "Charley horses".

Kiri

Jenne Heise wrote:

> > One of my more interesting culinary experiences was to hear the Baron wax
> > lyrical about the "moist, hot, DONE chicken" I served at a feast.  His paean
> > to the chicken was based on feasts where the chicken had been cooked to
> > death or was underdone, both too common evils from cooks unschooled in the
> > art of feeding large groups.
>
> Also, when feeding a large group on the battlefiel, especially over the
> long period of time (4 hours or more) described in the artidcle, certain
> foods keep to be kept coool. Blood-warm hard-boiled eggs, cooked chicken,
> cheese, etc. will turn people off, while keeping them in a cooler with a
> little ice and only putting out a bowlful at a time will not only save you
> money and your eaters disapointment, but will make the food more appealing
> to fighters who are overheated and exhausted.
>
> Oddly enough, we found that fighters didn't want soup-- too complicated
> when it involved a boil and a spoon. *sigh* You gotta bow to local customs
> somewhat-- for instance we don't serve non-hard sausage because of a
> tramatic experience years ago. We also don't serve bananas on the day of
> the fighting, over our fighter's protests, because one of our MOLs holds
> it as an article of faith that potassium taken after exercise causes
> cramps convulsions etc. (And I'd rather argue with 10 fighters than one
> MOL any day).
>
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise        jenne at tulgey.browser.net
> disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>
> " Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
> That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
> So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
> For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!" -- Kipling
>
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