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PapyrusBrigade(🧵1 /13) The fascinating history of pellagra.Pellagra symptoms include a skin rash, mouth sores, diarrhea, dementia, and ultimately death. It spread throughout Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, typically in poor regions where corn was the staple, and in institutions (prisons, orphanages, and asylums). This thread compares the relative ease of eliminating pellagra in France in the 19th century, versus the uphill battle faced by epidemiologists in the US in the 20th century. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Pellagra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pellagra</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Epidemiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Epidemiology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Corn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corn</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Nixtamalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nixtamalization</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Hominy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hominy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Slavery</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SettlerColonialism</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USHistory</a>

Nicholas GuttenbergFlour made from brown rice cooked in an alkaline environment is odd... Tastes and smells mildly like pretzels, forms a much more chewy kind of dough than rice flour normally would. Couldn't really find a way to make it pleasant, but if one needs a gluten substitute texture-wise, maybe it's useful? Also pretty labor and time intensive without specialized gear - an hour or so of my time and 10 hours in the dehydrator for about a cup of flour.<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooking</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/nixtamalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nixtamalization</a>

Nicholas GuttenbergSince seeing a cooking show where one of the chefs nixtamalized rye berries, now I'm obsessed with the question - what other stuff can you nixtamalize, and what sorts of tastes or textures would it produce?I know that one trick for preparing chickpeas for hummus involves cooking in an alkali environment, so I guess you can 'nixtamalize' any beans, sort of?Can you nixtamalize rice? Potato starch? Where does it end? Are pretzels just nixtamalized bread?!<a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cooking</a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/nixtamalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nixtamalization</a>

Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Fascinating history of Corn Tortillas 🌽 "Corn is naturally abundant in niacin (aka vitamin B3), which is an essential part of the human diet. However, the niacin in corn is chemically bound to other molecules, so we humans cannot properly absorb it. If you try to subsist on a diet based around nothing but corn prepared without alkaline treatment, you will develop niacin deficiency"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nixtamalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nixtamalization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vampire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vampire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MontezumasRevenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MontezumasRevenge</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CooksIllustrated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CooksIllustrated</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tortillas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tortillas</a> <a href="https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/science/789-articles/feature/transforming-corn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/science/789-articles/feature/transforming-corn</a>

EDVARDSWhere did the time go? Where did I go?1. I spent some time hanging out with my friend Major. My hands are in my pockets in every picture. Major can be a bit rough when nibbling on my hands... which I want to keep.2. I made <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Homemade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homemade</a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Tortillas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tortillas</a> from scratch. I get my <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Organic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Organic</a> whole <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Corn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corn</a> from Great River Organic Milling... <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Nixtamalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nixtamalization</a>... make dough... press and cook... yummm!

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