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"Better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey."
– E. Cobham Brewer
While good people in Roslyn, SD South have vinegar International Festival in June, May is actually National Vinegar Month. However, if they come to Roslyn in time, you will see very good, small-town parade consisting of the Roslyn Marching Band, children dressed as cucumbers, Roslyn firefighters (in my opinion – the best part), the type that all municipal lawn mowing (well, is pretty swell too), horse-drawn carriages, tractors, tractors and tractors, but even more, and Veterans Day to be dragged County by – yes – a John Deere tractor. The festivities also include the crowning of the Royal Court vinegar (a sour looking a lot), cooking demonstrations and food the nation's only Vinegar Museum.
Vinegar, the French translation meaning "sour wine" can produce all types of fruits, berries, melons, coconuts, honey, beer, maple syrup, potatoes, beets, malt, grains and whey. However, the fundamental process remains unchanged, no matter what the initial ingredients can be – first fermentation of sugar into alcohol, then a second chance to vinegar. Viola! Acetic acid (aka vinegar) born.
If rice, red wine, distilled white, aged balsamic or apple cider, vinegar overwhelming essence, most of us, is always the same – sharp, sour and bitter. But compared to each other, the subtle and not so subtle flavors are very different and are as varied as the fine and not so good wines are.
Vinegar has been around for millennia, and all faiths, it seems, the parables of the references to it, either in Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism or Christianity. When and how their deity or followers responded to the sour taste of vinegar was used metaphorically as a symbolic view of life and their situations.
The ancient collided with the versatility of vinegar, probably 10,000 years ago. The Babylonians used it as medicine, and mixed with herbs to flavor your meals. The Romans taken as a drink. Cleopatra dissolved pearls in it to prove she could consume a fortune in one meal. (Ladies, please do not try this at home!) Biblical references show how it was used for their healing and relaxing and yet as recently as World War I, the vinegar is still used to treat wounds in the battlefields.
Susan B. Anthony, known as vinegar, "" women's suffrage movement was aggressive, enthusiastic, playful, courageous, fighter, and a woman not a little absurd, showing all the classic traits of being full of "piss and vinegar." The first meeting of this term, however, from 1938 is that of John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath:
Vinegar? Why am I writing about the vinegar? Well. . . not because it is fashionable again, or at any otherwise ultra-modern. And it can not be confused by something the state of the art, or attempts to be up-to-the-minute and high technology. But what is, is a very affordable super-safe and eco basic cleaning that we all familiar with. Easily distilled white vinegar neutralizes alkaline soaps, no effort is broken by the smells of stubborn urine quickly polished patent leather instantly eliminates static clothing, perfectly clean glass and mirrors, simply deodorizes the air, effortlessly polished chromium, carefully removes soap scum and hard water stains, reliable, clean your automatic drip coffee maker, in a pinch, even accidentally spilled lifts white glue. This 10,000 years is a miracle elixir cleaning day!
He says, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." So be a clean and simply love sour things. Store in a sealed container full strength, dilute it 50/50 with water in a spray bottle to use recycled daily, or mix 1 tablespoon in 1 quart of water in another recycled sprayer for a great window cleaner. There is never a need for refrigeration. Vinegar Life is eternal.
Not in a bind by letting go Vinegar Month. There are 1001 uses for others to dress a salad – why not invent eco-friendly way 1002nd to celebrate the vinegar for yourself.
© 2009 Michael DeJong, author of Clean Tip: The Humble Art of Zen-Yourself Clean
Bio author
Michael DeJong, author of Clean Body: The Art of Zen-humble Cleaning Yourself, is an environmentalist and eco-activist.
DeJong and Joost Elffers generously donating all the copyrights of each of the books in the series of Clean OneCleanWorld Foundation. A philanthropist, nonprofit that supports environmental projects worldwide with grants, technical assistance and / or microfinance.
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