A lifelong immunity to sauerkraut spin
SIR – You report (March 24) that Melissa Hemsley, the so-called food guru, has discovered the benefits of sauerkraut.
Sixty years ago, my German Oma would solemnly intone “Sauer
macht gesund” (“Sour makes you happy”) as she tried to coax a mouthful of the stuff between my clenched teeth. I still hate it. Rosemarie Lawani Stanford-in-the-Vale, Oxfordshire SIR – Cabbage may be considered cool now, but I suspect there is a much simpler explanation for why sales have risen since Christmas.
We hen-keepers are buying them fresh every day to provide muchneeded greenery for our flocks, which have been under house arrest since last November due to the avian flu threat. Mine favour “sweetheart”.
The emergency offering of the trendier cavolo nero produced squawks of derision. Vicky Pepys Slaley, Northumberland