Archive for May, 2006
Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Ad-zooks!
I got a missive from a reader the other day wondering why on earth an ad for a militant vegetarian dot com appeared on my blog. Good question, since this site and our respective philosophies of eating aren’t particularly aligned.
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Coffee, Tea, for Me?
I grew up drinking tea, not coffee. This will, no doubt, come as a shock to my kids or anyone who has known me only as an adult; unlike many of my peers, I didn’t begin drinking gallons of black coffee to stay awake to study in high school or even in college. I drank plenty of Lipton tea, but no coffee.
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Monday, May 22nd, 2006
Salami, Salumi, Ah…Baloney!
Julia Moskin had a great article in last Wednesday’s New York Times Dining In section. It’s title Kissed by Air, Never by Fire, got the attention of the salami lover in me. I am a huge fan of traditional dry-cured sausages of all types and have enjoyed them all over Europe. I could happily make a meal of good dry salami, some hard nutty cheese, and a bottle of good wine almost any time.
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
More Help In the Mission to Save Dinner
Many thanks to reader, Julie P., for sending me some info about an interesting web business geared solely toward helping busy moms (or dads or singles) get back to the dinner table again. Be advised, it is a business, not a free service.
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
Ring the Dinner Bell
A recent edition of our local paper picked up an article from the Associated Press by Libby Quaid on a topic we’ve preached about for years–decades, actually: the importance of eating dinner at home. In our paper, at least, it carried the headline “Grocers want families back at dinner table” with the subheading “Research shows teens less likely to acquire bad habits”.
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
Sara, You’re Not Egg-zactly Correct
I was watching Sara Moulton (Sara’s Secrets) on the Foodnework the other day on a show devoted to simple brunches Dads and kids could do for Mom for her day. All three brunches, naturally enough, involved some sort of egg-based entree. While beating up a cluster of eggs, Ms. Moulton made the following remark (paraphrased from my memory): “I realize that we’re using a lot of eggs here, and although we used to worry about the cholesterol in eggs, we now understand that it’s not dietary cholesterol we need to be worried about…”
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Mom, He Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter!
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, my thoughts turn to chocolate. Since I truly love the stuff, it probably has nothing whatsoever to do with Mother’s Day. Truth be told, my thoughts on any random day also turn to chocolate.
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
Sweet Charity
Finally, there’s a truly positive step in addressing the obesity epidemic in kids. The William J. Clinton Foundation announced last Wednesday that it has struck a deal with major soda manufacturers to end sales of liquid crack at schools.
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Chai Me to the Moon
Wandering through my local natural foods grocery the other day, I happened upon the new Sugar-Free Original Oregon Chai. This was, for me, a cool experience, since I know a gentleman who used to be the President of Oregon Chai and I had lobbied him incessantly to put a bug into the ear of his erstwhile company to make their delicious product in a sugar free version.
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Alternative Fuels…for the Brain
Today’s front page carried a story by Lauran Neergaard of the AP entitled “Study to test theory linking Alzheimer’s with diabetes.” Ms. Neergaard’s article focuses on the recent announcement of a study of the diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) as a means of slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
