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• Isitoffalorawful?Maybeboth!Offalistheterm chefs use to refer to the entrails and organs of animals, such as brains, hearts, kidneys, liver, tongue, pancreas and glands.

•Whenyouheartheword“sweetbreads,”don’tthink banana or pumpkin bread. It’s actuallythe culinary term for the thymus glands of a lamb, pig or calf, located in the throat and neck.Mostoften,theglandsaresoakedinsaltwater, then poached in milk, after which they are fried.

•Head cheese isn’t really cheese at all, butrather a mixture of the meat and tissue found onapig’sskull,setingelatin.

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EDIBLES (continued):• Another place you’ll see slimy gelatin covering a chunk of meat is when you open up a can of SPAM. This little tin contains chopped pork shoulder and ham meat, hence the name, Spiced Meat And Ham. First manufactured in 1937, the luncheon meat was a popular staple for soldiers during World War II. Since its invention, more than seven billion cans have been sold. • At holiday time, many Norwegians fi x a tra-ditional dish known as Smalahove. This yummy dish is prepared fi rst by torching the skin and fl eece of a sheep’s head, removing the brain, then boiling the head for about three hours. Ar-range some rutabagas and potatoes around it on a platter, and there you have your Christmas feast!• You’re not getting dessert when you order black pudding after a meal. Rather you’ll be served a

sausage made up of animal blood, fat, rolled oats and spices. Depending on where you live, that blood could come from a pig, cow, sheep, duck or goat. Some recipes add chestnuts, sweet po-tato or barley to the mix. A yummy Asian snack, the pig’s blood cake, combines blood with sticky rice, fries it and serves it on a popsicle stick. • The process of making Polish blood soup is a tricky one. The head of a live duck must be chopped off and its blood collected in the cooking pot. Throw in some vinegar, on-ions, celery, parsley, sugar and some dump-lings, and there you have it! Some cooks like to add dried fruit, such as prunes, pears or apples. • When folks down South talk about eating chit’lins, they are referring to chitterlings. This lip-smacking dish is the small intestines of pigs, boiled for several hours, then battered and fried

and served with vinegar and hot sauce on the side. • Ask for a plate of menudo, and what you’ll get is an order of beef tripe, made from the rubbery lining of the stomach of a cow, sheep, goat, pig or deer. Your favorite Mexican res-taurant might garnish it with jalapeno peppers. • No matter what you call them — Rocky Mountain oysters, cowboy caviar, Montana tendergroins or bull fries — it doesn’t change the fact that they are bull testicles, coated in fl our and deep-fried. The people in some states love this “appetizer” so much, they hold en-tire festivals around them, such as Eagle, Ida-ho’s “World’s Largest Rocky Mountain Oys-ter Feed” and Montana’s “Testicle Festival.” • Not all tacos are created equal! Len-gueta de la vaca are tacos made with cow tongue, while Tacos de Cabeza include all

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EDIBLES (continued):parts of the cow’s head, including eyes and lips. • The French have a beautiful name for a particular variety of hot deli sand-wich —langue de vache. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s cow tongue. • If you order geoduck off the menu, don’t expect to get an exotic poultry dish. It’s actu-ally the largest burrowing clam in the world and is considered a delicacy in Asian countries, selling for as much as $30 per pound. It’s one of the animal kingdom’s longest-living crea-tures, at an average of 146 years, contribut-ing to the amazing quantity of eggs produced by the female during her lifetime — fi ve bil-lion! The geoduck has a long meaty siphon it uses to suck in plankton when feeding. That portion of this mollusk is usually cooked fon-due-style and dipped in soy or wasabi sauce.• Folks in Sardinia, Italy, may change the way you think about cheese. Their casu marzu starts with a sheep’s milk Pecorino cheese but with one variable. Whole cheeses are left outside so that the Piophila casei or “cheese fl y” can lay its eggs inside the cheese, as many as 500 eggs at one time. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae eat their way through the cheese, and their acidic digestive juices break down the cheese’s fats, resulting in a very soft cheese. There are usually thousands of little white worms in a casu marzu cheese ready for the market. It’s up to the individual diner whether to scoop out the maggots before eating. • If your plate is fi lled with the Bos-worth, Falstaff or Bedford Fillbasket varieties, you’ll soon be eating one of the most disliked vegetables, the Brussels sprout. This vitamin-rich cruciferous veggie belongs to the same family as the cabbage, collard greens, broc-coli, kale and kohlrabi. Brussels sprouts were fi rst brought to North America by French im-migrants settling in Louisiana around 1800. • The Scottish regularly cook up a dish called haggis, which is a sheep’s stomach stuffed with a mixture of the liver, heart, lungs, rolled oats and a variety of spices. Some fast-food res-taurants in Scotland even have this item on their menu, deep-fat fried or as a burger on a bun. For those who don’t care to eat it, there are contests for “haggis hurling,” a sport that has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The current record-holder threw a 1.5-pound (.68-kg) hag-gis a distance of 180 feet, 10 inches (55.12 m).

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The new method focuses on keeping blood pumping through the heart and to the brain (noti ce the “cerebral” part of the name), which is crucial for the survival of the victi m. It doesn’t do much good if you get the heart started but the brain has been without blood for too long.

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Questions About Shingles Vaccine

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 59-year-old female who had a severe case of chickenpox as a child. It has been recommended that I get a shingles vaccination after my 60th birthday.However, my husband never had chickenpox, and I have a 1-month-old granddaughter. Are my husband and granddaughter at risk for becoming infected when I get the vaccine? -- J.Z.

ANSWER: The shingles vaccine Zostavax contains live but weakened virus. Transmission of the vaccine virus from someone who just received it is theoretically possible, but actually is a rare event. Your husband’s chances of catching the vaccine virus are close to zero. Although your husband says he never had chickenpox, 99 percent of adults bear evidence in their blood that they did have childhood chickenpox. Many of these people have no recollection of being sick. That might be because the infection was so mild that they never knew they were infected. Furthermore, all adults, whether they remember they had chickenpox or not, are urged to have the vaccine after their 60th birthday. Your husband can get the shot along with you.As far as your 1-month-old grandchild goes,

her chance of catching the virus from a recently immunized person is small. However, you can eliminate the risk completely by waiting to have your immunization until your granddaughter gets her chickenpox immunization at 12 months; you don’t have to be immunized on the day you turn 60. Or you can be immunized before your granddaughter gets her chickenpox vaccine, and then wait to hold her and care for her for two or three weeks after you have the shot.Shingles is the bane of older people.

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 78-year-old woman with a torn rotator cuff and arthritis in my left shoulder. My doctor says nothing can be done short of a complete shoulder replacement. Is this true? Should I get a second opinion? -- E.W.

ANSWER: The rotator cuff is a “cuff” (much like shirt cuff) of four tendons that arise from four back muscles. Those tendons swing around the shoulder joint to hold it in place. Small rotator-cuff tears heal on their own. Large tears require surgical correction. Some tears call for shoulder joint replacement, especially when the joint itself is arthritic.More than 23,000 Americans will have their shoulder joints replaced this year. Almost all will have gratifying results. They’ll be able to move their shoulder without pain. The shoulder has an excellent blood supply, so healing this joint is much faster than healing a knee or hip replacement. Furthermore, the shoulder, unlike the knee or hip, doesn’t have to support body weight, another point in its favor.A second opinion is always worthwhile. If the second doctor agrees that you need a new joint, I say go for it.

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because many emergency centers and local media did not, and citizens often were misin-formed. -- S.H., Bellows Falls, Vt.

DEAR S.H.: Thank you for the heads-up! Readers, in 2006 following Hurricane Katrina, the federal government passed the PETS (Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards) Act, which requires state and local governments to include companion pets in their disaster planning and evacuation plans. Laws in each state and municipality are slightly different, so it’s important to familiarize yourself with the regulations where you reside prior to a natural disaster.For example, Louisiana and New York permit pets to ride on public transportation with their owners if an evacuation is declared. Check your state government’s website (go to www.pawscorner.com for a list of links to each state’s site) or contact the emergency planning agency by phone to get details. BIBLE TRIVIA ANSWERS:

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Most of us eat cheese several times a week but might not know what we’re really eating. This week, Tidbits brings you some facts about the process and a few different poular types. • Even though the United States is the world’s leading producer of cheese, (Wiscon-sin and California are the leaders in produc-tion), Greece and France consume the most per capita. The United States also doesn’t have the most distinct varieties. Great Brit-ain produces about 700 different cheeses, and France and Italy produce about 400 each.• The fl avor, color and texture of a cheese varies by type of milk used, the bacteria or acids used to separate the milk, the length of aging and the addition of certain herbs or particular molds. Most cheese is made from the milk of cows, sheep or goats, although the milk of yaks, horses, buffalo, camels and even reindeer can be used. One type of Mozzarella cheese comes from the milk of a water buffalo. A very rare cheese comes from a Swedish farm that raises three moose. Be-cause the lactation period of a moose lasts only three months, this farm’s moose produce only 660 pounds (300 kg) of cheese per year, and it sells for about $2,000 per pound ($1,000 per kg). • If you want true Roquefort cheese, look for a red sheep on the foil label. This means it has been aged in limestone caves near the village of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in the south of France. France’s King Charles VI gave sole rights for making this cheese to the village in 1411. Made from sheep’s milk, its distinctive blue veins come from the mold Pencillium roqueforti, which is in-jected into the cheese and grows within as it ages.• The holes in Swiss cheese are bubbles of carbon dioxide gas produced by bacteria introduced to the cheese. The CO2 builds up at weak points in the curd, forming bubbles. • If you’ve ever smelled Limburger cheese, you’ll remember its unpleasant odor. That’s be-cause the bacteria that is introduced to the goat’s milk is the one found on human skin that contrib-utes to body odor. Produced primarily in Germa-ny and the Netherlands, there are only two makers of this pungent cheese in all of North America.



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