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[hennie pennie]

>>>> "Hmm ~ East Asians have been found to have at least 500 genes that have been modified to make it much easier for them to eat, digest and use rice.

This is similar to the genetic changes in European people that enable them to eat, digest and use milk and milk byproducts.

Simply because Chinese are not getting fat on rice doesn't mean YOU won't get fat on rice.

For many Europeans wheat, barley and rye are essentially "poisons". For many Indochinese people the ONLY grain they can eat safely is rice." <<<<

Say, muawiyah.... freeper james c. bennett is curious as to whether you have any links about those 500 genes.

Thanks!

[hennie pennie]

Hi there, mdmathis6

I got frightfully busy today, but I thought that PERHAPS the original thread where I learned about the 500+ genes and Asians and rice MIGHT be of interest to you.

I don't seem to have any problems digesting rice; however, as freeper muawiyah points out overhere, that does NOT mean that I can necessarily digest rice starch WITHOUT getting f=a=t, unlike the Asians who stay so skinny.

Here, I thought it was the rice STARCH, but no, it's the GENES.

Freeper muawiyah knows scads of stuff about the Sa'ami and food; people who have ancestors from the far far far North can frequently eat HIGH IRON meats, but don't do well with wheat bread, LOL - it's in the genes.

Anyway, I have to scoot again, and hopefully won't be quite so busy later on --- or maybe later on this week.

See ya.

[hennie pennie]

I happenned across this book while searching for something else today:

Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The time-honoured ways are the best - over 700 recipes show you why: Amazon.co.uk: Darina Allen: Books

I think that it is important to realize that there are DIFFERENT preparations -- for instance the canned goods & bulk dry foods such as paste & rice & wheatberries, etc. are good preps for a situation where the electrical grid is out for a few weeks and trucks can't make deliveries to local grocery stores.

However . . . . if a real emergency ever happens, say a global EMP caused by a solar storm, then even 3 months worth of canned goods will not suffice.

I believe that we need desperately to learn how our 3rd & 4th great grandparents cooked, how they stored their food in the days long before electricity and modern refrigeration.

We need to know which beans & legumes grow best in our growing zone; we need to know how to grind cornmeal, wheat flour; how to churn butter, etc/etc/etc.

I have NO idea if that book is any good, but it brought to mind some of my thoughts about what things are important to learn for longterm preps.

[driftdiver]

Interesting, and a very good point. Lots of old skills may be necessary once again. Learning how to preserve food will be very important.

[nw_arizona_granny]

I believe that we need desperately to learn how our 3rd & 4th great grandparents cooked, how they stored their food in the days long before electricity and modern refrigeration.<<<

You are right and in the threads that I have, I have attempted in the first and second one to cover many of the methods, they are scattered here and there, see my sig line for a link.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“The Mormons have outstanding information on stockpiling food and supplies...”

Can you recommend any websites?

[davius]

There are many. You will probably do better to search under LDS (Latter Day Saints) than Mormon. Here are a few to get you started.

http://mormonism.suite101.com/article.cfm/an_lds_guide_to_beginning_food_storage

http://familysurvivors.com/lds-food-storage.htm

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/921183/lds_food_storage_resources.html