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Seventeenth century Spain was notorious for the parsimony of its common diet: bread, beans, onions, a scrap of lamb or fish sometimes, and garlic, garlic, garlic. It was to French or Italian cooking what the crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: FOOD FOR THOUGHT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...impression that drinking is a way to reduce the risk of death from heart disease," Fuchs told the Gazette. "The way to do that is to deal with the risk factors. You can't do anything about your family history but you can stop smoking, lose weight, adjust your diet and take drugs to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. That makes more sense than drinking alcohol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Study: Small Number of Drinks Per Week Healthy For Women | 5/17/1995 | See Source »

...Bombay. After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in 1975 and imprisoned political opponents-including Desai, for 21 months-voters put his coalition in power. He credited his long life to celibacy (begun at age 32 after his fifth child was born) and a spartan diet of fruit, milk, juice and, from time to time, his own urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...Whether Diet Coke really turns into formaldahyde when warm, as reported in the "urban myths" newsgroup...

Author: By Meredith K. Broussard, | Title: CYBER SAFARI | 4/20/1995 | See Source »

OVER A BANANA-AND-DIET-COKE BREAKFAST, SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH MET with TIME editors and correspondents last week. His office is decorated with mementos, including a handwritten note by Ulysses S. Grant. It says, "I propose to fight on this line all summer if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PARALLEL IS F.D.R. | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

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