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They’re also known as zealots, extremists and even the wine counterculture.
Pondering the line between delicious and medicinal reminded me that some years ago a very peppery oil had inspired a brilliant biomedical hunch. That’s why I made a note to call Dr. Gary Beauchamp, the director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia: to get an update on the chemistry of the olive oil cough.
At the 1999 international workshop on molecular and physical gastronomy, in the mist-shrouded mountain town of Erice, Sicily, the physicists Ugo and Beatrice Palma brought along oil freshly pressed from their own trees. Dr. Beauchamp tasted the oil and felt his throat burn, as did I and all the other attendees. But he was the only one who immediately thought of ibuprofen.
When in Nashville do not miss Arnold
Fussy Boy Breakfast Courses June 5, 2003
1) Grapes....must be left on the vine to pluck
2) Cantalope.....must be 1/2 inch slices to eat with hands
3) Peach.....not one speck of skin (and I mean speck), cut in pieces with a "big boy fork"
4) Grapefruit....must to removed from pods, and again not one speck of "that white stuff" showing, eats with hands
5) Strawberrys.....cut in pieces w/ toothpicks to eat
Love my boy!!