I've also heard that bananas and milk calm stage fright (probably for the same reason that bananas, milk, and turkey make you feel sleepy -- tryptophan? something that sounds like that).
I've also heard that spicy foods are natural expectorants -- "clearing out mucous" is what an expectorant like humibid does, which is to make the mucous thinner and more liquid (less viscous) so it becomes a pleasant lubrication rather than a gunky mess. Gina, have you ever taken humibid?
Lemon-water is supposed to cut through gunky mucous, although I find that it dries me out too much.
I have a friend who swears by popping some chocolate into her mouth before she sings -- she suffers from dry throat, and she needs the extra mucous it brings on.
The ancient Romans believed that leeks made the voice richer and stronger.
Isabelle B.
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