Imagine my surprise when an old friend started pitching this stuff to me over the phone as the greatest, and most magical food since spirulina algae: http://www.zrii.com/
Endorsed by the Chopra center no less! I lugged so much Ayur Vedic shit back from India it would make your ass hurt. All the brand new and teeming with microbes Maharishi products, all varieties of Triguna potions. Even a bunch of heavy amalaki fruit preserved whole which is the magic ingredient in this over priced elixir. As I look in the ingredients I see turmeric which is a universally honored inflammatory and has recently come back into my kitchen bigtime to stain every fucking thing it touches forever! But I'm getting older and I get what inflammatory means for my aging body. Aging is practically the process of giving in to inflammation! They have ginger, great for my stomach and who knows what other good things it does. It is a food I sprinkle on with delight that magic is happening in my kitchen. The other Indian names I recognize as stuff I used to worship and for all I know are great including the deified and vitamin rich amalaki fruit. Have I told you about my blueberry fetish? Oh man I've got it bad, I eat a cup a day on my cereal and feel so healthy virtuous it makes me glow for the whole day. I love all the magic foods that mass media sells me with the latest study. My dinner is multi colored, whole grain, multi veggie rich and although I do eat meat it is usually in the style of the rest of the world in smaller doses in my brown rice. (the rest of the world hates brown rice but you get my point) So I understand why my friend was glowing in her report of the magic of the amalaki and her non interest in hearing about the placebo effect. And she may even be right, the shit might just be the cats meow and will be a headline on my MSNBC page soon, which seems to dominate my magical food propaganda these days. But if I go with this new magic food I'm getting my own source for this fruit (I've got some in my Dabur Chavanprash in my cupboard right now) and I'll be God damned if Chopra is getting one red cent when I buy into the fad. Like all my "magic foods", I'm taking this one with a big dose of salt, (and it wont be Fleur de Sal from France since I found out that all special, magic, high priced salt is salt with dirt! (thanks to Mark Kurlanski who wrote the wonderful book, "Salt, a world history."
