Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
Fabulous Flageolet
In days of old, when knights were bold–or as Mike and I like to say, before we had our brain transplants and learned the ways of nutrition and the human metabolism–I was a great lover of beans of all types. I still am, though I don’t eat them often anymore.
To be frank, I’m not [...]
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Today’s paper brought with it an article by Barbara J. Avery of Cox News Service on how to host a Mardi Gras bash, even if you can’t make it to the Big Easy for the festival. The piece includes, among other things, this advice:
A successful Mardi Gras party has six elements: the right mix of guests, Cajun or Creole food, appropriate music, libations, entertainment and decorations.
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Brain Food
We’ve recently alit after a 3 week road trip followed hard on the heels by an intense and rewarding (and quite humbling) long weekend of intellectual renewal and regeneration at Renaissance Weekend. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen so much intellectual and creative firepower amassed in one place. After the mind-numbing travel, it was more than a breath of fresh air; it was a gale and a feast for the brain and the spirit.
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
Cal-See-Uhmmm
It never ceases to amaze me the boneheadedness of public health directives. The most recent case in point being the release of the giant nurses’ study showing that the low fat diet didn’t do a blasted thing it was touted to do followed, as expected, in almost every story about it by someone from somewhere exhorting people to continue to follow the low fat diet longer and go lower. Now comes the calcium report…
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Wheels Go Round
This newsblurb from Fortune Magazine has the best idea I’ve heard all week: make ethanol from leftover candy or sugar.
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006
Be Truly Sweet to your Sweetie
With Valentine’s Day upon us and the newspapers and magazines swelling with recipes for chocolate treats to make for your sweetie or yourself, those of us who subscribe to the low carb philosophy may be seeing red. Flashing red lights, that is, warning us that we must either abandon our healthy regimen or deny ourselves these chocolaty pleasures.
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Friday, February 3rd, 2006
The News of Low Carb’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
Mike and I had a meeting in Austin, Texas a couple of days ago and upon leaving early the next morning, stopped in to a Cracker Barrel Restaurant for some bacon and eggs…
