[Sca-cooks] Recipe: Shrimp & Grits. OOP

[Phlip]

Another good website, although highly technical, on niacin and its action on
the metabolism.

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/niacin/

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Recipe: Shrimp & Grits. OOP


>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > Maybe. I imagine, though, that in areas where corn is native, the
> > people evolved to the point where they could manufacture the
> > necessary chemicals (mostly niacin derivatives). In places where the
> > local diet was based on some other grain, but later changed to corn
> > to the exclusion of a lot of other foods, These people were
> > essentially unable to cope metabolically. Perhaps someone else can
> > explain this more clearly. Phlip? Avraham?
>
> The problem with pellagra, which is a niacin deficiency, was, as James
said,
> in part, due to the method of preparation of corn. The corn that the
> Southerners and Europeans were eating had been degerminated, thus removing
> the niaciun from it- the method that the Indians and other native peoples
> had used, soaking in alkali, does, in fact, make the niacin that it
contains
> more accessible to the human body.
>
> A good part of the difficulty with pellagra was that it was endemic among
> poor people, as well as instututionalized people (orphans, mentally
> impaired) because they were on a very limited diet- corn, fat back, and
> molasses- which provided plenty of calories, but lacked essential
nutrients.
> Since pellagra ran in families and geographic areas, it took quite a while
> to figure out the problem, in determining whether it was hereditary or a
> disease, and if a disease, what its vector might be.
>
> Just found a good article on the history of pellagra- it has most of what
> I've just told you in it, and is a good read.
>
> http://www.jmcgowan.com/pellagra.pdf
>
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
>
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....