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ASTHMA A good joke can be as dangerous as dust or pollen for asthma sufferers. In a new study conducted at New York University, more than 50% of asthma patients reported having an asthma attack after laughing too hard. Flour also emerged as an asthma risk factor. British researchers studying supermarket bakeries found that roughly 15% of the workers developed work-related asthma symptoms, including sneezing, wheezing and difficulty breathing...
...mosque. This was a crucial moment: would the elders allow us to sail upriver, or would they grab all the aid for themselves? Mueenuddin made his case eloquently. A few supplies were dropped off, and I saw a line of men like ants hefting 30-kg sacks of flour up a near-vertical mountain. Said Mueenuddin: "I told them we didn't have many supplies, and this had to go to the most needy?the women and children. The jirga understood...
Rose Levy Beranbaum knows from baking. The author of the million-copies-sold The Cake Bible spends most days thinking about what to do with flour, butter and sugar. That task became even more satisfying about eight years ago when she discovered a fleet of organic and unrefined sugars that have distinct flavors. "Sugar is no longer just a sweetener," she says of this new class of specialty sugars from exotic locales like Costa Rica and Paraguay. "It's now a flavoring ingredient that brings a whole new spectrum to the artist's palette of taste...
...more whole grains (not whole-wheat-flour products), beans, winter squashes and sweet potatoes...
...walk with Tawoos and his friend Altaf up a steep goat track toward Kamal Kote. They are carrying a sack of flour, 20 packets of biscuits, three loaves of bread, three eggplants, one cabbage, some tea, a bag of sugar, a box of candles and a few loose cigarettes. They are the relief effort. "I buried 27 people yesterday," says Tawoos. He is pale with lack of sleep and bitterness, and has to take frequent rests. He tells us there are 317 dead in Kamal Kote, a village of perhaps 1,000. His head is spinning with...