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The act powerfully ends with the new Snow scene after the nutcracker has turned into a prince and taken Clara to an enchanted forest. Trinidad Sevillano and Patrick Armand, as the Snow Queen and King, dance the newly choreographed movements with awe-inspiring strength and grace--not an easy task...
One caveat. Despite its chewy theme, Brainfood is in many respects user- hostile. The author is director of research at the National Institute for Medical Research in Paris; his chapters on nutritional basics bristle with such forbidding terms as neuropeptides, mitochondria and oligodendrocyte. Nonetheless, those who can surmount this barbed...
Despite its miraculous and still mysterious powers, Bourre argues, the human brain is like any other bodily organ: it requires both exercise and proper sustenance -- principally glucose and a suitable supply of amino acids -- to function properly. A healthy brain needs a varied diet, and a varied diet implies cuisine...
Rather like subtitled dialogue in talky French movies, some of Bourre's sentences probably read better in the original. "The mouth," he notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a...
Not every gourmet will be thrilled by Bourre's contention that the best food for brains is, well, brains. Liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are also rich in mind-building and protein-developing fatty acids, as are Rocky Mountain oysters (a.k.a. bull testicles) -- "for enlightened connoisseurs," the author smoothly adds. But...