From the Food Network to the Quick Care

Are you familiar with Alton Brown?

I bring him up because several years ago while watching the Food Network, I became agitated and asked my friend Krista why he had to stop so often and bore us with technical details about food. She informed me that he is actually a food scientist. I'm not sure what that means, but Alton Brown does have a very good blog that has a current entry about foodscaping that is worth the read while we prepare for a possible apocalypse.  

I bring him up because he (and Sara Oberle) would be appalled at what I am about to say: I invented a raw s'more. You take a piece of graham cracker, a raw marshmallow and a square of chocolate, and you stuff them in your mouth at once, not bothering to heat them in any way whatsoever. 

I bring up my raw s'more to introduce you, in case you did not already know, to my most treasured personality trait, impatience. 

Of course, the very minute the school year ended (a few minutes or hours beforehand, in fact), I fell ill, the victim of a phlegmtastic event. Following the advice of my friend Jodi, I started a Mucinex regimen. Following the advice of my friend Miss Gokey, I quadrupled my water intake. These actions made me feel slightly better. 

Being sick reminded me that I meant to order, but never did, a book recommended by James Wesley Rawles, Where There is no Doctor by David Werner. Lacking this proper manual, I went to the next-best resource, pinterest, where I believe it was Shannon Koistinen who had pinned a link to Mountain Rose Herbs. Clearly, according to the website, you have to sleep at night on top of a large pile of money in order to be healthy and natural. 

Which brings us back to impatience (in this case, also frugality) and raw s'mores. The fourth recipe down the page on the Mountain Rose Herbs website talks about a throat spray made from essential oils. Yeah, I went ahead and threw a sliced lemon and a handful of mint leaves into a pitcher of water and have been drinking lemon-mint water all day. And I feel slightly better.

Here in Las Vegas, there is a doctor, and there is also really good health insurance that I'm fortunate enough to have for the time being and should definitely be taking advantage of. There is something to be said, however, for finding the online recipes, and for beginning to build up an Apocalypse medicine cabinet. Maybe it will contain essential oils.  

Be well, my loyal readers! Hasta la proxima.