Re: SLOW foods WAS: Re: Kneading and adding flour

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:22:32 GMT, "Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>. Kimchi really does have more bio-available nutrients
>> than raw or cooked vegetables, and does good things to your blood
>> sugar and intestinal bacteria.

>> Plus, it makes your meals taste better!

>But don't you fart all the time eating it this often?

Amazingly, no.

The cabbage is fermented, so that must remove the farter-starters. The
kimchi I make bubbles away for the first few days so it must be
getting rid of all the farts in the jar.

I also make Korean black beans (in a crock pot) and they are somewhat
fermented. Again, no flatulance. In fact, I have eaten a lot of
Oriental food over the past several decades - food that either I
prepared, friends prepared, or we ate at authentic restaurants - and
not once did any of it induce gas.

I seriously doubt that a food that causes social embarrasment could
qualify as the national cuisine. Koreans eat kimchi for breakfast,
lunch, supper, in-between-meal snacks, while they are making love,
etc.

I am told that you are not an authentic Korean unless both your
parents had a mouthful of kimchi when sperm met egg.