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Just as cheese is said to be milk's leap to immortality, so pasta represents the apotheosis of flour and water. Blended to form a simple paste (hence pasta), those humble ingredients achieve culinary brilliance and almost universal popularity. Pasta, it seems, is the perfect food for our time, prized by gourmands for reasons purely hedonistic and by nutritionists as a healthful source of energizing, low-fat, complex carbohydrates...
...meeting, Harvard researchers reported a number of successes in treating patients with high cholesterol. One group of investigators focused on niacin, a vitamin found in foods such as meat, fish, eggs, pasta, and cereals. In small amounts, the substance has long been known to be beneficial for the skin, the nerves, and the digestive system. But according to Dr. James Alderman, a senior cardiology fellow at Beth Israel Hospital, larger doses may have cardiovascular benefits as well...
Providing food for 3500 students every day is not an easy job, yet few freshmen ever give a second thought to the complex system which supplies them with apple crispitos, smothered burgers or the notorious broccoli-cheese pasta...
EVER HAVE TOO MUCH spaghetti at an Italian restaurant? Spaghetti isn't the most glamorous of meals, but it's good solid food. But eat too much of it, and the pasta expands in the stomach till the fork-twister feels like a lead zeppelin...
...night before the race, my brother prepared me the requisite carbohydrate-packed pasta meal. Having stuffed myself with fettucine, I watched a little TV and went to sleep, ready for what the next day would bring...