[Sca-cooks] Best and worst Norse-themed Feasts?

[Terry Decker]

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> What's your problem with turnips?  Other than the human genetic problem 
> with the TAS2R bitterness receptor which causes some people (20-25% of the 
> population, IIRC) to preceive turnips and rutabagas as being extremely 
> bitter?  Proper cooking can help reduce the problem, but not eliminate it.
>
> Bear

Oh my gosh. I did not know that. I normally can't stand them (add parsnips 
to my roots avoidance), and only armored nips, properly precooked and then 
spiced and baked are edible to me. I thought it was all the mashed 
overcooked gluey masses I had to eat in an English school in first and 
second grade (G). I must be one of the 20-25%! Good to know! Explains a 
lot….

Morgana in Oertha


You appear to have a haplotype combination that makes you more sensitive to 
the bitter taste of glucosinates in various foods.  Bogdan could probably 
explain it better than I, but unfortunately he is busy making his way in 
academia.  What it means is pre-cooking with a couple water changes helps 
reduce the glucosinates, so that doctoring the remains might make them 
palatable.  Say, armored turnips?  There are enough people with the problem 
that I am cautious with most root vegetable.

Bear