Word: breads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first taste of India's cuisine was a revelation, experienced in my early 20s when some Indian friends staved off homesickness by cooking lamb curry, yellow daal (lentils), puffs of poori (deep-fried bread) and other dishes. The evocative spices, the heady scent of cardamom and curry, the pungent bite of pickles comforted them. To me, it was all new, all exciting...
...there is a traditionalist left in racing, it has to be Earnhardt, whose nickname is the Intimidator. I tell him Martin's pre-race meal is tuna with brown mustard on wheat bread. If Earnhardt says he eats the same thing, I'm going to cover golf. "My pre-race meal is steak and potatoes," Earnhardt says. "And when Mark's f______ tuna runs out on him at 400 miles, my steak will just be kicking...
...spreads taste? In a highly unscientific study, my colleague Janice Horowitz and I sampled both products. Without telling Janice which was which, I spread Benecol, Take Control and regular margarine on three pieces of whole wheat bread. Then she did the same for me. Overall, we found all three tasted pretty much alike, although Janice described a "funny mouth feel" after eating the cholesterol-fighting spreads. I found Benecol marginally less tasty...
Remember the good old days when you could eat all the pasta you wanted and still feel virtuous? After all, pasta (along with rice, potatoes and bread) contains lots of complex carbohydrates--the stuff that nutritionists keep telling us is the foundation of a healthy diet. Turns out, things are more complicated than that. Complex carbohydrates are still good for you. But Americans get most of their complex carbohydrates from refined grains--which have been stripped of their fiber and many nutrients--and don't eat enough foods made from whole grains. Researchers are just beginning to understand why that...
...this still sounds like eating sawdust, try changing your diet in stages. Start with wheat bread, then switch to whole wheat. Some brands are milder than others. You might even mix a teaspoon of oat bran or wheat germ into your yogurt...