"Food on Ships - Secrets to Preserving Food" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Mar 2021 9:09 p.m. PST |
""Englishmen, and more especially seamen, love their bellies above anything else," wrote Samuel Pepys, famous 17th century British diarist and administrator of the Navy.1 Wherever we travel, we need to eat and drink, and this was a crucial problem for seafaring journeys. Pepys was writing during the Age of Sail (around 1571–1862). With long voyages of many weeks and months, how did they stop food from rotting? Rotting occurs as fruit and vegetables ripen and begin to decay. On food, bacteria and fungi digest food, often producing toxins that make us sick, and odours which we have evolved to find distasteful. The microbial enemy is too numerous to wipe out—the more effective approach is to make it difficult or impossible for harmful microbes to grow…"
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Armand
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Shagnasty  | 11 Mar 2021 11:38 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 11 Mar 2021 12:35 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my good friend!.
Armand
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