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...club raised a few eyebrows initially. Social Director Merry Ann Moore's attempt to buy rugby equipment at Brine's Sporting Goods drew a few comments from a salesman. "He said: 'You look pretty frail to be playing rugby,' but I told him that we were starting a new tradition," Moore recalled...
...Monte tomato paste has a mere 112 mg of sodium; Hunt's has 610. A Kellogg blueberry waffle has 260 mg, while the same size serving of Aunt Jemima hits 352 mg. Canned fruit is salty when it is peeled with lye. Because peas are sorted in brine for canning, a tablespoonful of canned peas has as much sodium (30.8 mg) as 5½ lbs. of fresh...
...course also gives instruction on how to make low-sodium corn bread and biscuits. Recalls Taylor: "Before my taste buds adjusted, the squash, the okra just tasted yukky. But I finally got used to it. Now the thought of eating salted nuts makes me think I'm eating brine." Most of the advice Taylor received would be useful anywhere. Avoid cheese, and if you cannot do that, at least do not buy processed slices, which have far more sodium than the block. In the supermarket, do not buy any product if salt is listed among the first three ingredients...
Salt comes from dead, dried-up seas or living ones. It can bubble to the surface as brine or crop out in the form of salt licks and shallow caverns. Below the skin of the earth it lies in white veins, some of them thousands of feet deep. It can be evaporated from salt "pans," boiled down from brine, or mined, as it often is today, from shafts extending half a mile down...
...Fresh Pond is great except you shouldn't run there alone at night if you're a woman." Carla Desbois, of Brine's Sporting Goods in Harvard Square, says, and salesmen at other area athletic equipment stores agree...