Chewing gum doesn’t usually find it’s way into my shopping trolley, but Chicza did! What makes it different is that is is made from the gum of the Chicozapote tree. This gum is in fact what the earliest US manufactured chewing gum was made of in the 1860s. The gum, Chicle, was imported into the [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Know your onions
Know your onions! Onions are well known for their medicinal values. It is one of the foods suggested along with garlic to keep us free of heart problems. It has also been traditionally used to help with colds, chest infections and ear ache. A common cure for bronchitis in the old days was to cut [...]