Food of the Ancestors

[jkvlondon]

2 hours ago, Not2Cool2Argue said:

Wow so skanjmi is an original authentic drink of panjab lol

Yep (prof google concurs) in full as sugarcane is indigenous  to south east asia

[Guest GuestSingh]

On 6/6/2018 at 11:20 PM, Not2Cool2Argue said:

One thing to note is that, they ate very coarse grinded stuff. Like our rice and wheat is so finely grounded/polished. Its not healthy.

Think it's another western comfort...dough is easy for us to knead now but wonder how damage is done to the texture and nutrition if what we use now isn't cooked properly... it seems like it can stick to the gut like glue and ferment, causing digestion problems with less bulky stools.

[TejS]

I've heard dalia has always been consumed a lot in ancient Punjab, even back to the times of the Indus Valley. I think it's called bulghur wheat in English.

[jkvlondon]

6 hours ago, TejS said:

I've heard dalia has always been consumed a lot in ancient Punjab, even back to the times of the Indus Valley. I think it's called bulghur wheat in English.

I still remember my first punjabi dalia different

[imhosingh]

DNA of populations changes slowly over thousands of years. Food genetics over a mass market can change within weeks. For example your average apple today is completely different to one from a decade ago or say 40yrs ago. Modern apples are sweeter and designed for shelf life and mass transportation. That daal you eat today is a different pulse to the one eaten by your ancestors (green Revolution and modern GM techniques). Same goes for all foods unless you are talking about fish from the sea which haven't been genetically altered (farm fish have). So that's the dirty secret of many of today's ills our genes are designed for food types over thousands of years but now our bodies are exposed to different foods from around the world and the food we think we are used to is actually alien to our genes.