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...restaurant's liquor list reads like a South Sea adventure. After an encounter with a White Witch (pure white Jamaica rum) or a Rangoon Ruby (vodka and cranberry juice), the drinker may well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into...
...words, "under the bam, under the boo, under the bamboo tree." Then one day a supple vahine named Tarita broke into spontaneous dance before Brando and Director Reed, swayed sensually to the rhythm of sharkskin drums, and extolled Brando's prowess as a godlike lover and drinker of awa, a local fermentation. Brando and Reed conferred. Soon the coconut radios of Tahiti were spreading the message that Tarita had become Hollywood's newest star...
...moderate doses, alcohol narcotizes the appestat and enhances appetite (the original reason for the cocktail); but because liquor has a high caloric value-100 calories per oz.-the heavy drinker is seldom hungry. In rare cases, diseases such as encephalitis or a pituitary tumor may damage the appestat permanently, destroying nearly all sense of satiety...
...that are currently winning favor from dieters. "Metrecal is a pretty complete food," he says. "It contains large amounts of protein, vitamins and minerals. In the quantity of 900 calories a day, anyone will lose weight on it-20, 30 or 40 Ibs." But Keys worries that the Metrecal drinker will never make either the psychological or physiological adjustment to the idea of eating smaller portions of food...
...American diet. Restaurants take pride in heavily marbled meat. Most margarine manufacturers "convert liquid fats into partly saturated solids by "hydrogenating" them-that is, by forcing hydrogen atoms onto the liquid fat molecules. Dairy farmers are paid more for milk with high butterfat content. Keys is a milk drinker himself-but only of modified skim milk that contains a maximum of 2% butterfat...