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Origins of Everyday Foods
These were obtained from Charles Panati's "Extraordinary Origins o f Everyday
Things", i t ’s a great book for the curious.
Potato chips: At a restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York, a patron kept
returning his order of slices potatoes, demanding thinner slices. Finally, the chef
(.out of angered exasperation) cut them purposefully too thin to be speared by the
consumer’s fork. The customer was actually thrilled, and "potato chips" caught on.
Pretzels: An Italian monk, in A.D. 610, awarded bread sticks to children who
memorized their prayers. He naturally decided to shape the dough into forms
resembling children's arms folded as if in prayer.
Hot dogs: The weiner itself originated in '
Frankfurt, Germany in 1852. The coupling of
the weiner with bread buns arrived in the
1890s, when a struggling vendor was caught
between two ideas: selling hot sandwiches or
selling sausage weiners. The sausage weiners
needed a gimmick to alleviate the problem of
holding them when they were hot, so the
vendor introduced hot weiner sandwiches.
Graham crackers: The Reverend Sylvester
Graham, in the 1830s, was a health freak, and "Aunt Jemima" was a prototype
believed in eating food beneficial to the character, created to portray an
digestive tract. Believing in coarse bran, he hospitable Southern mammy, the
scoffed at breads and cereals, he pushed Davis Milling Company brought
followers to eat unprocessed foods, opening a Aunt Jemima to life-via a local
market for--what would soon be called- cook, Nancy Cook-in the 1893
graham crackers.
Chicago World’s Fair.
Household tip: Freeze your candles
before burning them: they’ll melt
more slowly and last longer.
Fast snack idea: top rice
cakes with chili and cheese.
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Good News For
Dieters
Health & Nutrition
Questions & Answers
1 am by no stretch of the imagination a
doctor, but please send in your questions
and I’ll do my best to answer them, re­
searching at the library and calling doc­
tors. For more in-depth information,
please call or see your doctor.
Q. I read that once you gain fat cells,
you never lose them. If that’s true,
why do you become thinner when you
diet?
-Shawn McConnell
A. That is true. There are two reasons
people can i
e thinner when diet­
ing: 1-while one can’t lose cellulite, the
cells do shrink, resulting in a more slen­
der appearance 2-if, while on a diet, a
person does not upkeep their nutrition­
ally required amount of protein, their
body will “ consume” their muscle tis­
sue, also resulting in a thinner—yet less
* ’toned’ ’-appearance.
Q. How do I know if I’m not getting
enough iron, and what foods are good
sources of it?
-James Barnett
A. If your body lacks iron, you may ex­
perience some of the following symp­
toms: breathing difficulties,brittle nails,
pale skin, fatigue, and constipation. Foods
that contain high amounts of iron in­
clude blackstrap molasses, eggs, fish,
organ meats, poultry, wheat germ, liver,
and shredded wheat.
I f you have any recipes, household hints,
food events, o f health/nutrition ques­
tions, please send them to: Angelique
Sanders, c/o The Portland Observer,
4747 N.E. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.,
97211. 1 test everything before includ­
ing it, and we reserve the right to edit
or otherwise alter contributions before
publication.
Finally, some good news for
those watching their weight: ice cream
may be allowable in your diet plan!
Ice cream (and other similar
frozen dairy products) is high in carbo­
hydrates, which speed up your metabo­
lism, helping your body bum more calo­
ries faster. Regrettably, this only works
in small quantities: your metabolism
can only speed up so much, so it isn’t
true that the more ice cream you eat, the
thinner you’ll be (dam! That would be a
diet I could stick to!). However, a few
spoonfuls before you go to bed will
quicken your calorie-burning while you
sleep. Here is a list of various types of
ice cream, and the amount of calories,
fat, and carbohydrates each contains (the
ideal product would contain low fat, low
calories, and high carbohydrates). This
information is for a 4 oz. serving of
vanilla (or any flavor, for Dole sorbet).
Brand name__
C aibfi ■ -Ga la...
Breyer'3 all-nat.
15 150
110
27
Dole fruit sorbet
130
14
Dreyer's dietary
23
260
Haagen Dazs
’’Citrusline"
Just in time for the beginning of the
canning season, Sunkist is sponsoring a
"citrusline": a telephone hotline that
customers can call at no cost and ask
questions about citrus fruit.
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1-800-CITRUS-5
Monday through Friday
(except holidays)
8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. PST
This service ends July 31.
The following foods are must-haves: when the cupboards start to look bare,
these items are inexpensive, filling, and versatile.
Rice (about $1.00 for 2 lbs.): It’s cheap and it expands to three times its size! You
can eat it plain, with spices, with gravy, with vegetables, with sauces, just about
anything. You can add milk and sugar and make a good rice pudding, too.
Pressure-packed canned biscuits (Pillsbury has a special promotion right now,
and they're only about a quarter for a can of ten): These things you should
experiment with a bit. I've had success with the following: rolling them out and
fdling with any of the following: 1) pizza sauce or spaghetti sauce, and cheese 2)
jam or jelly 3) casserole 4)or usually you can slide in some leftovers and no one
will notice. After rolling them out and adding any of those things, simply fold in
half and push shut, then bake like usual. Also, you can cut holes in the center of the
dough and fry in cooking oil, then roll in cinnamon and sugar for a great doughnut.
Instant mashed potatoes (about $1.50 for a small box): These have a bad
reputation, but actually taste pretty good. Don't spend the extra money investing in
an expensive brand; it tastes the same as generic. Instant spuds are fast, easy,
microwaveable, they don't bum, you only add milk, water, and butter, they're cheap,
a small box makes 24 servings, and kids like them
Recipe Section
This recipe contains ingredients that most every household has. Additionally,
it is inexpensive, keeps well, and is fairly simple to make. Leftovers can be used
frr stuffing, bird food, added to meatloaf, etcetera.
Buttermilk cornbread
1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
1 tablespoon sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup margarine
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
Combine first five ingredients. Dump in margarine and blend until
mixture looks like cornmeal. Stir in buttermilk and egg. Stir to combine
and pour into greased 9-inch square pan.
Bake at 400° for20-25 minutes, or until edges pull from sides of pan and
middle is firm.
Nutrition information: (per serving, 1/8 of pan)
Calories: 170
Fat: 33mg.
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