Eeeek-Coli

Don't eat your spinach!

Um, no, really, don't eat your spinach. You've probably all heard by now about this horrid E. Coli outbreak. What are you doing in response? cl-ydoom at the Cooking With the Seasons board writes, "I do use the mix often...Now I think I'll skip the easy way. To many other foods that we have to watch for E. coli to worry if the bagged mix will make us sick. " Ugh, isn't it scary? All of us, er, lazier cooks are feeling a little funny, I think. I know I am particularly lax when it comes to washing veggies...oh god, I can practically feel it coming on.

More on the issue at the South Beach Diets board where enamom says, "I wouldn't even do the root spinach. There was an article in our paper yesterday as the University here (Ohio State) is doing a HUGE study for the dept of agriculture on whether the E-coli comes thru the dirt and then remains IN the spinach as part of it's growth structure. So it may be in there and can't be washed or processed out." Scary.

What would Popeye think?
(Oh wait, he always ate canned spinach. Maybe now we know why!)