[Sca-cooks] Gum Arabic WAS parlor tricks

[Helen Schultz]

Vitha:

Here is an excellent article about Gum Arabic... how it is in nature, how it 
is harvested, what it is used in...  have fun <smile>... 
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200502/gum.arabic.htm

This on-line magazine is full of all sorts of interesting things, not 
necessarily cooking related, though.

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----- Original Message ----- 


For those of us uneducated, what would one use gum arabic
for?

Vitha