Word: yeasting
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...wearing a sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers, but the jeans and sneakers are bright white and the jeans an even brighter turquoise. He is, of course, charming. "Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist," Mika says, referring to the pungent yeast-based spread that Brits put on toast and is marketed on the premise that you either love it or hate it. "I've made a Marmite record and I'm expecting strong reactions either...
...course, Vegemite - made from the extract of brewers' yeast extract, a by-product of beer manufacturing, and some secret ingredient like tar or the gunk that accumulates on outdoor grills - is the nectar of the gods to Australians. So for you native Americans, I realize this may all sound like a tempest on toast. Vegemite, you say, is just a food. Which is like saying Oprah is just a woman who has a couch. This is the food that nurtured the likes of the Crocodile Hunter and the Wiggles. It's the spicy paste that put fire in the belly...
Until recently, those wines, grown without pesticides and fermented with natural yeast, were a niche specialty appreciated mainly by a small if passionate following of wine geeks. Vintners who make traditional wines, including many of those labeled organic, use a variety of tools and ingredients--oak products, manufactured yeasts, enzymes, defoaming agents and other chemical additives--to influence the flavor and texture of their product, whether it be a $10 jug or a $100 bottle. Natural wines, on the other hand, are created by winemakers who take an artisanal approach to what they produce, basing their decisions in the vineyard...
...allergy - causing hives, itchiness, rashes, heart rate and blood pressure changes or breathing difficulties. Drug sensitivities, on the other hand, include the constipation, queasiness, wooziness and confusion we see with narcotics; the dry mouth from cold and allergy medicines; the mood swings with steroids and other hormones; even the yeast infections some women get with antibiotics...
...first-line drugs first for a reason - they generally work the best with the least bad side effects. So you could end up on more dangerous, less effective medications than you would otherwise. It might be, for example, better to give you that antibiotic and treat the yeast infection later than to give another drug and burn out your kidneys. Medicine is full of delicate choices between imperfect alternatives. Bottom line: go over your allergy list carefully with any nurse or doctor who takes it. Ask to see it when you check into the hospital and correct...