That's really interesting. My mom said that they used to eat the almond inside the apricot pit when she was growing up in India. I like them, but I only eat a couple in a year. I never made it a point to eat them. She tells me that they taste better in India, and they are too dried out here (in the ...

Hey Cairidh,
You are so bad...making my mouth water, lol

50% mortality rate! That sucks! It's not worth it to me. Not when fish is available as an alternative. It's funny; we read the same article, yet come up with different opinions about how risky a pandemic is! This is what concerns me the most: On the CDC website under the link labeled "Current Situat...

RRM, if I got into a car accident, my family wouldn't "catch" the car accident from me. Chickens that get INFECTED BUT NOT SICK are contagious for 10 days, allowing the virus to spread to chickens with weaker immune systems. (Me: the chicken that gets infected but not sick; People around me: the dea...

I have been following the Wai diet for 2 months. I never got sick from eating raw eggs; no diarrhea or strong reactions or anything that would cause concern. From what I have read in Wai's book, my defense system becomes better trained to tolerate the bacteria in raw eggs. Does this apply to viruses...