Lemons four ways!
In this issue, I share how to squeeze the most out of your lemons, making limoncello, lemonade (with a minty simple syrup), lemon-based salad dressing, and lemon vinegar cleaning solution!
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Good morning from the Big Apple!! I’m thrilled to be in New York City this week to take part in the Wings World Quest Women of Discovery Gala and Discovery Forum. It’s humbling to be in the company of women working across the globe to conserve our fisheries, document biodiversity of our rainforests, explore the greatest depths of the ocean, seek medicines from nature, and more! I’ll provide a full recap of the event and talks in a post next week.
For now, I wanted to share with you a fun activity I did at home in preparation for a Chemistry in the Kitchen YouTube show we’ll be taping next month. I chose to focus on lemons (Citrus limon in the Rutaceae plant family) for the show. Lemons have much to offer for our diet and health. The fragrant monoterpene compound limonene found in the rind of lemons and other citrus not only acts as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial against pathogenic bacteria and fungi, but is also useful as a cleaning agent due to its properties as a solvent.
If the proverbial phrase, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” encourages optimism, then this newsletter will go the extra mile! When life gave me lemons this week, I made limoncello, lemonade, lemon cleaning solution, and lemon salad dressing (all from the same bowl of lemons)! Let me show you how to do the same.
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