• Rye is a audacious substance . It can grow in piteous soil with less Dominicus and at high EL than wheat berry , and it can thrive through dampness and drought . The bread made from rye also endure longer . And for some , it is aspiritual matter .
• George Washington had a much - bed formula for rye whisky that combine rye , corn whisky and malted barleycorn ( in 1799 it was the most profitable part of his plantation ) . In 2011 , hisdistillery was reopen brieflyto bring forth 600 bottles of the famous commixture at a price of $ 95 each ( and a limit point to two per client ) for those who wanted a literal mouthful of history .
• Rye fields are also good for produce some astonishingly creativecrop lot .
• talk of the work of the devil , could rye have led to the Salem witch trials ? Rye ( as a cereal grass or as a lettuce ) can be infected withergot , a fungus which invades developing kernels under warm and damp atmospheric condition - be intimate to have been the instance in Salem at the time . " Convulsive ergotism cause violent fits , a crawling sensation on the skin , vomiting , choking , and – most interestingly – hallucinations . The hallucinogenic drug LSD is a derivative of Claviceps purpurea . "
• Is rye a adept alternative to wheat ? In a study done in 2010 it was found that mice that ate wheat earn importantly more weightiness than mice on a Secale cereale diet . " A possible explanation would be that straw instigate a higher insulin response than rye whisky , which means that the cells in the body can store more fat . The fact that rye contains moresoluble fibersthan wheat also play a part , since they belike preclude the uptake of fat and other nutritionary heart in the bowel . "
• This may be my favorite Dietribe fact of all time : " Pumpernickel , ' a vulgar , glum , slightly glowering bread made of unbolted rye ' , is from German , as one might expect . The word was originally used in German as an scornful term for anyone considered disagreeable . Its elements arepumpern(to break wind ) andNickel(a goblin ; devil ; rascal ) , originally a soubriquet from Nicholas . Pumpernickel , in other Good Book , literally mean ' break wind bastard ' . "
• What on the dot is the significance of the " air hole full of rye " in " Sing a Song of Sixpence " ? fundamentally just what you would look : an ingredient for making boodle , cake or Proto-Indo European crust . But the rest of the greenhouse rhyme ’s substance may not be what you remember …
• As of 1985 ( so we can assume that it has increased dramatically since then ) , 7500 copy of Salinger ’s " backstop in the Rye " retard out of the public libraries in Chicago had never been take back .
• A Word bill as thesequelto " Catcher in the Rye " has been ban from waiver in the US .
• Are any of you fond to rye moolah ? Do you discover black bread indigestible ? Can you really distinguish the difference between Secale cereale whiskey and Bourbon dynasty ? Do say !
‘ Dietribes ’ seem every other Wednesday . Food photograph taken byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our post about hercolorful dieting .
