In New York City space means money, and at Manhattan grocery stores the yogurt sections are huge! In terms of retail shelf space, yogurt usually occupies a full refrigerated section as big as the combined space allotted for cheese, butter, sour cream, and eggs. By comparison, at our local grocery, pasta is given a single two by four foot shelf. In other words, at present yogurt is big business.
“It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” Lewis Grizzard
The history of the tomato begins with the Peruvian Incans in ancient times. By the 13th century, tomatoes had proliferated throughout South America., and in the 1600s, Spanish colonialists exported them to Europe.
Tomatoes got a very cold reception, because they are related to the poisonous plant “the deadly nightshade,” used to make digitalis (a medicine for the heart). Incidentally, the same genus of plants includes the potato, eggplant, and chili pepper, as well as some notoriously toxic offshoots like mandrake root.
Known to the Egyptians 6,000 years ago as “the plant of immortality,” the aloe vera plant is again gaining a place of distinction amongst health conscious people, and not just as a topical gel to treat wounds, skin infections, burns and other skin conditions.1-4 More and more this plant’s spiky leaves can be found popping up among the other mixed greens at local markets and health food stores. A properly prepared inch or half-inch section of aloe vera (see below) can be added to juices, salads, soups, etc. We can attest that it is good for reflux and it is great in our smoothie.
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