Connecting with my culture

Part II

According to Cure Tooth Decay by Nagel - to build teeth back up and get them strong we need to eat things that are cultured for good bacteria and foods that are rich in minerals, because teeth don’t decay from bad bacteria - washing 10 times a day wont help too much IF you are on a poor mineral diet. In my personal conclusion, after reading this book, to be creative you need to imagine anything that is bone material for minerals that will build teeth. For example minerals come from: bone marrow (i.e. Milanese Osso Buco from Oliveto’s, Adilya -AMAZING) I always say I would rather die from cholesterol than cancer. Anyway eggs because their eggshells have minerals, all sorts of seafood because- again- their shells have minerals. Broths with fish head, good fats from caviar, and oysters because their shells are full of minerals that the teeth need…etc… 

On my search for traditional Bahraini fermented foods my first step was to go to Muharaq and get the mehyawa, which is a fish sauce of white bait, the whole fish is used in this sauce with spices, so its rich in minerals, its dried and then left to ferment in the sun so that chemistry upgrades this mixture. Spread on bread from street bakers, and eat with a beautiful side salad.  

This sauce is salty. I am quite concerned about the quality of ingredients used to make this these days, the salt used has to be genuine for the build up of minerals rather than the depletion of them in our diet. Salt needs to be sea salt, not table salt because that’s made in a lab and doesn’t have the minerals.