Here's an interesting pull quote for you. This is from The Joy of Pickling by Linda Ziedrich, the book I've been enjoying (from the library). I haven't gotten around to buying it yet, but I probably will. I've used a lot of the recipes and though I have some nits to pick with some of them, it's over all been fun. It has some fun quotes about pickling sprinkled throughout the text. Here's a curious one:
"I've once asked my grandmother, then seventy-two years old, how she kept her skin so wrinkle-free. The secret, she explained, was a daily dose of the fermented brine from the pickle barrel, rubbed into her skin. This treatment explained the unusual smell I'd always associated with my grandmother, but the astringent quality of the brine did seem to work wonders."
--Darra Goldstein, A Taste of Russia
Well, who knows? Has anyone else heard of this? If I were still wrinkle-free, I might give it a try, but as it is, I like my wrinkles. They fit my face, tell the story of my life and all of that. At any rate, just another tidbit.
Onwards,
HM
3 comments:
LOL - my grandma always smelled of lavender soap and had a lot of wrinkles. I guess she should have hit the pickle jars. I think I'll stick with coconut oil. ;-)
My dad used apple cider vinegar as his aftershave, and always looked 20 years younger than his age. The grandchildren always commented that Grandpa smelled like a pickle!
Ahhhhhh, the glories of apple cider vinegar. I swear, that stuff is the elixir of life. :) I'll stick with the coconut oil too.
HM
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