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SPICE TALK ||||| CELERY
‘celery salt’ which not only enhances
flavour but also imparts longevity to
foods,” he says.
Leaving aside chefs and gourmands,
health aficionados too are gung ho about
celery, which they believe is a good
source of vitamin K, and small amounts
of Vitamin C and Vitamin A. Celery juice
helps maintain pH balance while celery
seeds are a natural diuretic which help
in elimination of uric acid, thereby
curing bladder and kidney disorders.
Celery is good for athletes because of the
presence of sodium which helps fight
dehydration. In fact, according to the US
Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
celery not only gives you the right
amount of folate, potassium, fibre and
molybdenum but is also naturally low in
calories, carbohydrates and fats, thus
helping lower bad cholesterol.
Clockwise from top: Chicken
breast, celery, spinach, cheese
and apple salad; slow cooked
chicken with onions, carrots
and celery; stir fried fish with
celery; and celery seed
CELERY NOTES
The shroud of King Tut’s tomb
was adorned with garlands of
wild celery, among others.
Hippocrates called celery a
nerve soother.
As far back as 30 AD, Aulus
Cornelius Celsus wrote about the use of celery seeds to relieve pain.
In ancient Rome, celery was considered an aphrodisiac. Today, celery is known
to contain androsterone, a pheromone released by the sweat glands of men that
attracts women.
Notorious Italian lover, Casanova, ate lots of celery to keep up his stamina.
In 1856, a Scotsman named George Taylor first introduced celery to Kalamazoo,
Michigan, which later came to be known as the Celery City.
Celery contains ‘negative calories’ which means that one spends more calories
digesting it than those consumed by eating it.
A patron at the Pump Room in Chicago’s Ambassador East Hotel started the
trend of stirring the cocktail, Bloody Mary, with a stalk of celery.
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