To help your allergist, write down everything you remember about the events leading to your reaction- what did you eat? Touch?
An everyday scenario: touch your phone, scratch an itch, touch your phone, eat, touch your phone, take out the garbage, touch your phone, shield a sneeze, touch your phone, blow your nose, and touch your phone again!
What lingers in my mind, alongside these ideas, is a new, weightier sense of the past, and of what the people who lived in it ate, touched, heard, saw, and did.
That's because we come from the world of see, eat, smell touch.
The full set of verbs was taste, eat, smell, touch, rub, lift, manipulate, run, push, fill, move, ride, say, fear, open, approach, near, enter, see, hear, listen, drive, wear, break, and clean.
If you accidentally eat or touch your allergy, you need to have an antidote nearby.
Don't eat or touch the peanut butter if you are allergic to nuts.
When you are done shooting, wash your hands and face before you eat or touch your face.
Guests select what they want to eat from touch-screen computers.
They are a small, but increasingly influential group of culinary zealots (mostly in California, of course, but traveling a lot and proselytizing along the way), who have become so extreme in their vegetarianism that they refuse to eat food touched by heat -- for fear of destroying the nutrients.
But except for pho, no street food we ate could touch the phenomenal fare at Bun Cha Hang Manh in Hanoi's Old Quarter, a four-story warren of tiny rooms and cracked floors.
