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From: B Vaughan on 25 Sep 2006 13:59 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:39:06 -0400, "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.not> wrote: >"Frank F. Matthews" <frankfmatthews(a)houston.rr.com> wrote in >message news:MUSRg.23343$4B3.17964(a)tornado.texas.rr.com... >> In my experience the bread in France was quite good. It >> simply lacked endurance. If you couldn't finish it within 1/2 >> day of purchase feed it to the birds. > >That's what real bread is supposed to be like: no oils, >preservatives or conditioners to pretend it's fresh after a day! > >You can get what the French call English bread for toast etc. The bread I make at home is still reasonably edible for almost a week, and I don't use any conditioners or preservatives. It's a good crusty Italian-style loaf, not the soft squishy stuff called bread in the American supermarket. I make whole wheat bread, though, which is something rather rare in Italy. Compared to the bread I can buy, it's a bit denser in its texture. A little olive oil added to the bread does help to preserve it, as does using milk or part milk instead of water. I don't see this as a bad thing. We are two people and maybe between the two of us we eat three slices of bread a day. When I buy bread, I usually buy those small skinny loaves (250 grams) that are all crust, and I still end up feeding some of it to the birds or making bread crumbs out of part of it. The bread I make gets eaten in its entirety, which, if you don't like to waste food, is a good thing. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
From: Dave Frightens Me on 25 Sep 2006 16:13 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:11:12 +0200, B Vaughan<me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >Children, especially, are eating tons of unhealthy carbohydrates. TV >advertisements push various Kinder (Italian, in spite of the German >name) and Mulino Bianco products as breakfast foods and after-school >snacks for kids. These are all basically sweets, not the basis of a >healthy meal. The Kinder products always advertise milk as an >ingredient and the packages always have pictures of glasses of milk >being poured into the sugary cakes. However, milk is down there with >the flavourings if you check the ingredient list. Nice British spelling of "flavourings"! ;o) These products are just fine, as long as they burn off those calories. I start the day with a sugary dose of that stuff and a long sugary coffee, and don't suffer obesity. These kids need to be kicked outside to play or walk to school. >The difficulties are 1) that now they are sedentary, and 2) that the >bread and pasta now has a much higher glycemic index than it did in >their grandparents' day. I don't know about the second one, because it's not my area. As to the first, I spent a lot of my youth sedentary playing video games, but never suffered obesity. Generations of tv watchers did the same, so I am not so sure that's a major cause. Then again, I always liked walking... -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 25 Sep 2006 16:10 Magda <chriscross(a)hey.eu> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:01:21 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the > royal duchy of city south and deansgate) arranged some electrons, so they > looked like this: [] > ... However, boiled egg with _soldiers_, that was something I hadn't had > ... since I was a child! :) > > Tomorrow morning you can cut your toast into soldiers... ;) What was the french term for them again? (Toasted bread cut into long thin rectangles for dipping in a soft-boiled egg. When I was a kid they were called soldiers in Scotland!) -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org
From: Dave Frightens Me on 25 Sep 2006 17:26 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:58:36 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >For that I must take your word - I've not yet been to Italy. ;-) What are you waiting for girl??? This place is enough to remind you of what life's all about! -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- --
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 25 Sep 2006 17:37
Magda <chriscross(a)hey.eu> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:10:17 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the > royal duchy of city south and deansgate) arranged some electrons, so they > looked like this: > > ... Magda <chriscross(a)hey.eu> wrote: > ... > ... > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:01:21 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, > ... > this_address_is_for_spam(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor > ... > of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) arranged some > ... > electrons, so they looked like this: > ... [] > ... > ... However, boiled egg with _soldiers_, that was something I > ... > ... hadn't had since I was a child! :) > ... > > ... > Tomorrow morning you can cut your toast into soldiers... ;) > ... > ... What was the french term for them again? (Toasted bread cut into long > ... thin rectangles for dipping in a soft-boiled egg. When I was a kid > ... they were called soldiers in Scotland!) > > Mouillettes. :) > > (Next time we are going to speak French, Mister! ;)) And Oscar can nod and smile (and eat!)- pretty much the case when with my Scottish relatives! :) -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://www.davidhorne.net/pictures.html http://soundjunction.org |