How to Eat the Hottest, Wildest Ethnic Food without Heartburn

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(Gerry Furth-Sides) How do you promote a heartburn medicine to Millennials and foodies?   PEPCID® has the medicine and Feastly has the event spaces and diner market.  So by way of a New York PR company they partnered to create a series of dinners to trigger heartburn with chefs. Chef Bruce Kalman, known for his farn-to-table refined dishes,  created the Los Angeles dinner.  I was privileged to sit next to the extraordinary food photographer, Peter Tseng.
 Peter Tseng
PEPCID® events nationally include Chef Matt Adoo  (Pig Beach, Pig Bleecker) in New York City; with the wonderful Chef Fabio Viviani in Chicago.   Triggers that cause heartburn that was in the meal are listed below.
Menu by Bruce Kalman (below)
Bruce Kalman

Photo by David Morrison

Meatballs and Cheese Puff Passed Hors d'doerves
Meatballs and Cheese Puff Passed Hors d’doerves
Bread Appetizer
With housemade cultured butter and pickled giardiniera to induce heartburn!
 Bread Appetizer
The lovely server got me a bread heel on a little plate.  Then every other server tried to pick it up! 
 bread heel
Mussels Small Plate
Smoked Hope Ranch mussels conservas with pickled Fresno chile and buckwheat lentil crackers
Ranch mussels
Tortelloni Small Plate
Ricotta tortelloni, tomato-orange fondue, minted English peas, whey, and Meyer lemon.
Ricotta tortelloni
Entree
Barolo and coffee-braised Holstein beef short rib with Urfa chile and butter-poached radish.
Holstein beef
Budino
Budino Dessert
Salted caramel budino with spiced and candied hazelnuts and whipped crème fraiche.
You too can be a part of this campaign.  The east coast PR company also thought up the Instagram campaign of #CarpeDinner (“Seize Dinner”), encouraging diners to shoot photos of their favorite dishes when doing this.

TRIGGERS THAT CAUSE HEARTBURN

Increased pressure on your abdomen
Being overweight, obese, or pregnant; eating heavy meals; or wearing certain clothing that might be too tight around your abdomen may cause excess pressure.

Certain types of medication
Never stop taking any medication prescribed or recommended by your doctor without talking to the doctor first.

Smoking or inhaling secondhand smoke
Smoking weakens the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and can also contribute to other digestive conditions, as well as cause cancer.

Greasy, spicy, or fatty foods
Learn more about specific foods that trigger heartburn and how to help manage your diet.

Caffeinated beverages
Coffee, tea, sodas, and energy drinks are common heartburn triggers.

Alcohol
Red wine is worse than white wine as a heartburn trigger, though both increase stomach acid production.

My slender, aunt Lillian (who recently passed away at 100), “loved everything when it comes to food as long as there were no herbs in it.”   She loved to tune in to the CNN station regularly to follow my literary hero, Anthony Bourdain, not for his cultural insights but to gasp as what he ate.  And then she would have a field day asking me how he could eat so much, and rhetorically ask how he could eat so many things that were sure to explode in his stomach.  The answer: he got sick a lot so now he just takes little tastes and he now works out.  She never seemed to have found Andrew Zimmern’s TV show (I maintain that he can describe the culinary scene within the cultural context of a town just as well as any travel writer), or there would have been a lot more to say.  And I’m sure that PEPSID would be very beneficial to them.

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