Fourier Or Appertier? The Disputes Within The French Cuisine Community

In July 2003, the winsome town of Brandoun was attacked by a band of masked youths brandishing large wooden paddles. They were demanding the schnitzel, the traditional Austrian Christmas lunch, and burning down the bars of the town. Naturally, the authorities had a big role in the matter, and in the spirit of measures to protect the fragile economy, they banned the wearing and drinking of the schnitzel on July 16th. The attacks stopped immediately, but it left the town in a bad mood. Restaurants were closed and it’s not entirely certain why.

It is generally thought that the smritis which afflicted the town was brought by Turkish Cypriot immigrants, who had settled on the border of Bulgaria; they brought with them the smritis and the milky diarrhea which they had acquired in the mountainous regions of the mountainous interior of Turkey. This mixture expertly blends the produce of the mountain regions with products of the low valleys and the mountain pastures. The only way to get the sustenance to complete the unhealthy diet was to drink milky tea, so Turkish doctors came up with a white paste of rice to mix with the tea to make a slimming tea. But after this, another big trouble began. The Turkish doctors wanted to pound down the disease through antibiotic treatment and figured out that it was bubonic plague, which they had treated previously.

The Arabic name for white mold, Pleurotus fumae, means “black fungus” and it does appear to have been responsible for the death of many people in days gone by. The disease allegedly affected the heavily pregnant and lactating Muslim women in the diaspora in the 19th and 20th century.

This would explain why there is evidence of smritis in Turkey today; many of the immigrants settle in other countries of the world, but come back with health problems. In return, I feel that I have a right to know when and where I am to eat my Christmas Dinner. I also feel that I have a right to know who my friends are, and what they eat. I feel that every person has a imagination and springs up when it suits them.

Here is my story. I grew up in Turkey, but I am from Atlanta. Thus, when I moved to Turkey, I thought I could also be safe in Turkey, at least from the Turkey bacteria. I have friends here who have had Operations for dialysis, and one friend was so severely ill with mesentery that she could not move. Another friend has a young child and was fitted for dialysis after a fall.

Be forewarned, though, before you gulp down spoonfuls of this mold on Christmas Eve, it may be Sarcoid, and its spores are highly poisonous. They can cause easy death.

The official line from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is: “Mold with friend mold, white mold and yeast contamination typically is mild and non-food borne. Also, mold with friend mold or white mold infection cannot be transmitted to others by any known foodborne means, such as direct transfer from contaminated hands, clothing or surfaces, etc.”

Yet, here is an example of a relationship like mine where I can’t tell you exactly what mold got into a person’s food:

My wife and I grew up together in China, friends here in China, friends back home in the U.S. and friends of friends. My wife had been to China several times, but home was different then. Neither my wife nor I knew about the fermenting bowl of Stachybotrys chartarum (burning question – what is mold? It looks like a little blue bag right?!) They told me at first that it was a flower. But then I couldn’t imagine why my friend would have flowers in her bag. I asked her later in the day, and she told me that she found a picture of mold on the wall, and it looked just like moldy goo. It had to be moldy, I said, because you can’t see it unless you have been there. She said she felt really sick that day and spent the rest of that week in bed.

Moldy goo has been around since before recorded history began. flea beetles, whipgrass, even fly paper and parchment have had mold on them. There are mold spores in the New York City water supply dating back as far as the settlers remember. For a while in the 19th century, many NYC families were amid poverty and hunger. Pickles and other foods with mold were common housewares. The rich had diets of unlimited extent, and the poor had to content themselves with the odd peas or turnip.

The first commercially grown mold in the United States was made by Edward Morrison and John Wharton.