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...swordfish. This is a shame, as the restaurant offers some excellent modern American food without the trip into Boston such a meal often necessitates. Grafton Street may be named after the pedestrian shopping district in Dublin, but its food is a far cry from traditional Irish dishes like boiled bacon and cabbage...
...executives to visit the Irish outposts of such big American firms as Motorola, Intel and Bristol-Myers Squibb--yet Dublin remains the gentlest of Europe's capitals. Sure, some venerable fish-and-chips shops are offering cappuccino alongside fried cod, and a few pub menus are substituting bruschetta for bacon and cabbage. But wild deer still lope through Phoenix Park, the largest city park in Europe, and the pub keepers still draw a Guinness with the reverence and ritual of a Japanese tea ceremony...
...goal, however, is not to go from simple carbohydrates to bacon and brie. Instead you should opt for whole foods with complex carbohydrates such as unrefined whole-wheat bread, brown rice, fruits, vegetables and beans. These are packed with thousands of protective substances. In addition, they are rich in fiber, which slows their absorption, thus preventing a spike in your blood sugar and an excessive insulin response...
...time to quit seeing the job of cleaning up the world as a zero-sum game between industrial progress on the one hand and a healthy planet on the other. The fact is, it's development--well-planned, well-executed sustainable development--that may be what saves our bacon before it's too late...
...great moral lapse on animal testing of drugs that can fight aids and other diseases--I'm quite likely to be on the other side of the lunch counter. My vegan phase was great, but after three weeks I broke under the torture of a grilled-cheese sandwich (with bacon!). Chili and steaks and sausages weren't far behind. Ambivalent, I often still order the veggie plate...