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Why We Cook the Food We Eat

We cook our food for three reasons


to make food look more appetizing, to
soften hard and tough foods, and to kill any
microbe that may happen to be in the food.
There are many ways of preparing
food. Food can be fried, boiled, broiled,
roasted, baked, steamed, stewed or saut.
They can be well-cooked, half cooked or
even raw.
It is easier to digest food that is well
cooked. But there are foods that are easier
to digest when half cooked than when well-
cooked. Meat and liver for example, are
easier to digest when half cooked. But
certainly they taste better when well-
cooked.
Many vegetables are also easier to
digest when well-cooked but some are
eaten raw. Lettuce is an example of a
vegetable which is eaten raw.
The Legend of the Poinsettia
When the poinsettia begins to bloom,
we are reminded that Christmas is near. As
such it has become a Christmas symbol.
Poinsettias begin to bloom in November
until March.
The poinsettia is an odorless flower
with brilliant red color. Its flowers are
actually leaves. How the poinsettia came
about is an interesting legend.
It happened during the time of the
Holy Wars or Crusades, when the Christian
knights were fighting the Mohammedans to
regain the Holy Land.
In one of the holy wars, a brave knight
climbed the wall surrounding the Holy City
to open the gates so that the other Christian
soldiers could enter. A Moorish soldier saw
him and shot him with an arrow. As he fell
over the wall, his blood dropped on a shrub

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