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The "flash drought" that came out of nowhere this summer in the US High Plains, afflicting Montana and the Dakotas the worst, has already destroyed more than half of this year's wheat crop, going by some recent field surveys. Considering that the region is now one of the top wheat-growing regions in the world, the damage is very notable.
These so-called flash droughts are expected to become considerably more common over the coming decades as the climate continues warming and weather patterns continue changing.
[...] Something that's interesting to note here is that 2011, only 6 years back, was actually one of the wettest years on record in eastern Montana. Those sorts of rapid swings between extreme precipitation and flooding on the one hand, and extreme flash droughts on the other, are only going to become more common from here on out. Eventually, most of the agriculture in the region will have to cease.
Grist calls this a Cereal Killer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Friday August 11 2017, @02:00PM (1 child)
Yes that's the crucial distinction between Thai and Chinese, Chinese cashew chicken would drown in (wheat) soy sauce but Thai cashew chicken doesn't if you avoid oyster sauce which my kids declare "gross" so I don't use it anyway. Still tastes pretty good. Stinky Vietnamese fish sauce is about four times stronger than Thai oyster sauce (my opinion, no idea how accurate that really is) and the "good / real" stuff is made out of nothing but anchovies and salt perfectly soy and wheat free, so you can swap out oyster sauce and some of the salt and use about 1/4 super salty Vietnam fish sauce. So instead of a teaspoon of oyster sauce you use like drops of fish sauce. For my weird local value of kid logic, my kids declare oyster juice too disgusting to consume but anchovy juice is merely juicy fish and they like fish so all is well WRT stinky fish sauce. I have no comment, kid logic, what more can be said... When that little is being used anyway you may as well skip it, the meal still tastes good.
WRT thai cuisine commercial oyster sauce "always" contains soy sauce which contains wheat. Other than that, you're mostly good aside from the usual "cheap imitation shit full of profit boosting filler" which applies to all cuisines.
I've heard rumors commercial "out of a jar" chili paste contain soy sauce, unconfirmed, my brand does not. Sometimes I'm lazy and mortar and pestle garlic and chili is not in the cards. Obviously if you make your own chili paste it is not an issue.
There's a Paleo thai cookbook by Fragoso (the hot woman who has written a stack of paleo cookbooks) Paleo is usually GF most of the time plus or minus minor condiments which still has to be looked out for.
If you want to piss off somewhat nationalist thai and chinese cooks/chefs at the same time just tell them its the same food except thai food replaces most of the soy with spicy/hot garlic and chili paste. You can go pretty far in cooking with that analogy. Take every chinese stir fry or fried rice (cauliflower rice in my case) recipe that uses teriyaki or soy sauce and just sub in thai chili paste and there you go.
My experience with coconut aminos is they're gross and don't taste much like soy sauce so don't bother, although opinions may vary. Technically if you had a source of oysters and a heck of a lot of spare time I think you could make Thai style oyster sauce homemade using coconut aminos. But since coconut aminos taste gross it would likely ruin the oyster sauce. If you take the soy sauce out of the oyster sauce you pretty much have vietnam fish sauce using a different species of seafood, so may as well use the stinky fish sauce and leave it at that.
From what I understand, local wheat agriculture in Thailand is essentially zero, which is a pretty good indicator the cuisine will be mostly GF, although, you know, imported soy sauce, imported wheat, etc. Ukraine Russian German cuisine, probably not fertile ground for naturally GF cuisine, LOL. Mexico grows surprisingly little wheat, as long as you're not allergic to corn they have plenty of GF cuisine or GF adaptable cuisine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @03:18PM
Because you're very wrong: https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-food/eight-cuisine.htm [chinahighlights.com]
And that's just the 8 famous cuisines, there are plenty of others see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine [wikipedia.org]
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/z4dg4j/dividing-and-conquering-the-cuisines-of-china [vice.com]
What you said is about as silly as saying "US food" is the same food as European food except that US food just replaces the mayo with ketchup.