Word: potatoes
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...make a meal well balanced and healthy. Kris Buda recently organized an event in Cleveland for 65 children and their guests. "We decided on chicken surprise," she says, "which allowed each of the kids to bread it the way they wanted. They could choose pretzels or cornflakes or potato chips." (Nutritional compromises are sometimes made in the interest of the larger lesson.) Depending on location, the week could include a visit to a farm to see ingredients at the source. Week Three concentrates on etiquette and table manners. And Week Four features the big night. Children set the tables, greet...
...Missouri cook) and recipes (cheese grits via a Georgia blogger who plugs a stone-ground variety from a mill powered by a mule named Luke). Some boast of eating local on a budget-- $8.34 a day in the case of an Oakland, Calif., activist who got by on sorrel-potato soup and honey-sweetened cookies for dinner. But she confesses, "Let's face it. I can't go without chocolate forever!" For others, coffee is the biggest sacrifice...
...From gourmet potato chips to candied dried fruit, packaged snacks that have the look and feel of health foods are increasingly popular. Whole Foods, the mecca of organic, good-for-you eats, carries some of these, as do local health food stores around the country. Experts warn that though they may sound nutritious or may be billed as "organic," salty, fried veggie chips, for instance, are often more tasty than healthy. And health-watchers steer away from sweetened, packaged "fruit" products- such as fried banana chips- which can be high in saturated fat and contain far more sugar than...
...have foods you crave? Chocolate, perhaps? Potato chips? Cheeseburgers? Food cravings are common and problematic, because they can lead to overeating that undermines health and promotes obesity. But there's not much agreement about what their cause may be or how to manage them...
Gaining ground these days is another idea: that food cravings are true addictions, like those to drugs and alcohol. Some addiction experts suggest that the underlying problem is a disturbance of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that mediates pleasure. But they can't say whether potato chips trigger dopamine release or we have simply learned to associate eating potato chips with pleasurable sensations...