GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Custard Tart, Balsamic Vinegar, Semiotics
16 Apr 2017
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Oldest thing to eat: turtle > 200 years. Opportunity to take advantage of ingredients: adverbial approaches to the geography of food; semiotics of foods; needs and greeds. Oldest thing we ever eaten: (not living species [not plant/animal]: water ade from melting ice before civil war (10k years old) Salt: part of human body that"s not a living thing get salt from mine. Butter: store in vacuum environment in ireland (pot) 300 years old. Slow up / relax / sleep / drive more walk less, sit more standless: choose light form of exercise (rest in bed for 1 or 2 weeks) Truffle: mushroom grown in root (underground) of certain type of oak treehard to find: white truffle italy. Culinary ignorance most food consumed is young. Oldest food: wine, cheese, salt, balsamic vinegar. Empress (roman) lydia: hatched her own egg in bosom.
