Which would you choose?
Health magazine chose five restaurants to honor for making fast food a little healthier. While on the road this week, I had a chance to try a couple of the magazine’s selections. At Au Bon Pain (in Washington’s Union Station and other locations throughout the city) hungry travelers can choose between more than a dozen different [...]
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Fast food five: first bite
Posted in Dining, health on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A winter staple
Posted in health on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been searching my kitchen cupboard for dinner ideas — a good strategy when everything at the market is from California or South America. I decided to cook some lentils even before I read today’s “Medscape” news. It seems that folate (an important vitamin found in greens, lentils, and other dried beans) plays a role [...]
Still galloping
Posted in Virginia food, health on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember Graham Kerr? The irrepressible Englishman was one of the first celebrity television cooks. His “Cooking in Concert” shows with the aging but still hilarious Julia Child are as funny as they are instructive. I especially like one where they debone and cook a duck while talking about the joylessness of modern cuisine, Kerr’s cheery [...]
A gift from the deep
Posted in health on December 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
For years Greg Cole, professor at UCLA’s school of medicine and associate director of its Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, has been on the trail of the relationship between diet and Alzheimer’s Disease. He’s written about the effects of cucurmin (it’s usually called turmeric on the spice jar), and has been studying fish oil, known to destroy a certain protein [...]
