Carol Shenkenberger ---> Malte Schmidt AM 08.07.06
BETREFF: *Re: Health care*

Hi Carol!

[bread]
MS>> As far as I know th is funny enough not very normal (as a German I
MS>> must say, I am quite at loss to think of eating something else).
CS> This is true but other grains take it's place in Asia.  In the USA,
CS> bread can be good or horrible, depending.  A large percentage today
CS> are only familiar with store bought 'wonderbread' and it's like (asoft
CS> white one with little nutritional value but has some).

CS> Be not to afraid.  Many of us still make our own and the store stuff is
CS> for when we get lazy.

That is very rarely the case here. Why should we make our own bread if the  
bakery is only 300-500m away?! If you don't get good bread otherwise, it  
is understandable though. :)


CS> When I go to sea, Charlotte makes the bread but Don (Daddy) has to put it
CS> in the machine as she's just a little too short to reach as of yet.  My
CS> only problem here in Japan is they dont make bread much so it's hard to
CS> get the right flours.  Elise (a friend of mine, from germany who lives
CS> here in the same building) gets the rye flour from Fukuoka.  We've both
CS> been looking for the right black-strap molassis but no perfect luck yet.
CS> We have one that works well enough but not optimal.  Japanese have little
CS> use for that so we have limited resources.

Well, if I were in a different country I wouldn't mind doing it their way  
most of the time. If I like to eat the rice they have all the time...  
fine. I find it more important to live their way of life at least to some  
extent. That is what being abroad is all about IMO.

MS>> In Asia they eat more rice instead, that is understandable...

CS> The rice is also very different here.  It's not all that much
CS> pre-processed (polished) and tends to medium-short grains.  It's not made
CS> 'fluffy' except by accident.

Yeah, usually we don't have a great variety of rice here. The anologue of  
white bread probably. :)

Bye,
Malte!
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