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...best sections are those dealing with dairy products, eggs, meats and fish. In his introduction on the lore of the egg, McGee writes that at one point in history, eggs existed before chickens. He hastens to explain that by egg he refers to the specialized container of the ovum of early organisms that predated all birds by millions of years. Pleasant rambling through history makes good reading, but the author's practical information is more illuminating. For instance, beaten egg whites are important to cakes and soufflés because they hold air that expands as it heats. Yolks, which hold...
McGee's description of the differences between the muscle fibers of fish and those of meat makes it clear why seafood is naturally tender whereas meat needs cooking to become easily chewable. Detailed diagrams of molecular structures and cross sections of tissues are always related to cooking and eating properties. A reader with a less scientific turn of mind can skip the theory and get almost as much from the applied information. Never mind the cell structure of beef: anyone attempting to broil a very thick cut will find that the surface is burned long before the interior...
Once a poster boy for Europe's resurgent far-right parties, Jörg Haider has been living a much quieter life as Governor of Carinthia, a big fish in the small pond of Austria's southernmost province, since stepping down as party leader in 2000. Now, the maverick politician is making waves again - and the turbulence is rocking Austria's coalition government. In 1999, Haider and his Freedom Party (FPO) took 27% of the vote in parliamentary elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party...
...What they don't warn you about is the extreme paranoia that sets in about the potential threat to your fetus from everything you eat, drink, breathe, wear or even think about. Forget alcohol, cigarettes and Valium. When a woman is on the nest, the inadvertent ingestion of cheese, fish, undercooked meat or unfiltered tap water is enough to provoke a shrieking phone call to the poison-control hotline...
Which is why I'm so enjoying the Bush Administration's recent heartburn over its new regulations on the emission of mercury, a nasty neurotoxin that in recent years has become the bane of pregnant women because of its accumulation in popular fish like tuna. As with lead, adults can process an impressive amount of mercury before major damage is done. Not so fetuses. In 2004 the Federal Government warned pregnant women against eating more than 6 oz. of albacore tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant...