Vinegar :: essays research papers fc

VinegarChris Nacey authorship 101 Final draft 2-19-1997     When I was a child, I fatigued a lot of time in the kitchen with my arrest.She liked to cook and so did I. Because of this, I learned my way round thekitchen. I knew the place for everything, and I knew the uses of mosteverything. There was only one paradox, in my knowledge of the kitchen vinegar.My mother had one bottle of vinegar for as long as I can remember. She neverused it in cooking, or taught me how to for that matter. Our bottle of snowyWine Vinegar sat in our cupboard on the tin shelf, enigmatically, untouched,detached. I knew that my mother wouldnt have it without reason. It was in thekitchen, so I reason that it must be some sort of, rarely used, cookingstaple. I would never have guessed then that vinegar had so numerous uses.      scantily the other day, I was in the mall visiting a chum that works atFrankincense and Myrrh. While there, I happened upon some bottl es that caughtmy eye. They were engaging looking ornamental bottles. Each one was filledwith mysterious, colored liquids the colors varied from red to brown to yellow.In the liquids were berries, sprigs of herbs, and things of the such. Ithought they looked interesting, so I picked up a bottle that I recognized ashaving sage in it. I took a look at the label. On the label were listed theingredients sage, rosemary, and southernwood leaves. When I read the front ofthe bottle, I was surprise to find that I was looking at an herbal vinegar fuzzrinse. Before this I never knew that such a thing existed. afterwards my experienceat the mall, I became aware that vinegar didnt just hold up in the kitchen.This intrigued me. I decided to find out more near vinegar and its uses.     Nobody knows the exact origins of vinegar, but there are many storiesand beliefs surrounding this strange liquid.(Oster 3) The Roman Army wasrecorded to have combine vinegar with water to mak e a sort of Gatorade for thesoldiers. In the ordinal and nineteenth century United States, similardrinks known as "shrubs" or "switchels" were made by field laborers. To makethese drinks, they mixed either crop juices or water, with sometimes salt, andfruit-flavored vinegars.(Oster 4) The earliest recorded use of vinegar, however,was in Babylonia around 5,000 B.C. There, it was typically made from dates, andcommonplace as a medicine.(Oster 3)     Throughout history, vinegar has been used medicinally.