Guess who I had a cappuccino with this morning in the cafe upstairs over Bloomsbury Books? You're right! An adorable woman named Helgard and her famous mechanical-engineering-professor-consultant husband Roland from the town of Eckental, a bit south of Kleinsendelbach and not too far from Oberschollenbach and Kalchreuth.
And guess what I learned? Yep, right again! I learned that their family car runs on grapeseed oil -- the kind you buy at the grocery store. And that all cars could run on grapeseed oil or sunflower oil. And that researchers in the department Roland chaired at a technical university in Munich created a drug-free way to cure allergies. He explained it but, alas, all I can remember is that it has to do with bombarding the molecules in apples. He didn't actually use the word "bombarding," but that was the gist. He said the auto industry isn't interested in grapeseed oil for fuel and the pharmaceutical industry certainly isn't interested in a drug-free way to cure allergies.
"That's SO what's wrong with our world," said Nancy.
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