Genetically Wired for Deli?
Phoenix, AZ
The 2nd half of the LA story, via Podcast, is ready to go and will be downloadable in a few days. Just arrived here in Phoenix from Vegas, which had some interesting things…so look for that update sometime this week.
Just a quick note before I pass out though. The stomach is currently churning and grumbling from the Middle Eastern meal I just had. Nothing new here, to me hummus is a little Hamas bomber in the stomach. Even though I consume tons of the stuff on a regular basis it never fails to plant a bomb in the gut. The past two times I’ve been to Israel, I spent the better half of the trip in the sheroutim.
Yet, despite the daily onslaught of chopped liver, fatty/salted briskets, marinated fish, creamy kugels, spicy mustards, and smoked meats my stomach has remained in tip top shape. I can only attribute this to my Ashkenazi genes, which welcome to my stomach deli food with open double helixes, as has been done for millenia in my bloodline. This is probably the same reason why my Israeli friends can’t really stomach deli, and why there isn’t a single deli in Israel. I’m sure there’s some scientist genetically engineering stomachs to handle both foods, but for now I’ll take the shmaltz over the chickpeas.
DS
