Word: salads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard drew acclaim for providing pasta and vegetarian burgers daily at dinner, as well as for stocking a salad bar complete with grilled vegetables, fresh fruits and bagels...
...after scene of Barbra gazing into the mirror, wishing, just wishing that she had been born beautiful like her mother and sister. Scene after scene of Barbra staring off into the distance, pining for someone who will know what type of toothpaste she uses, or how she likes her salad, with bad jazz surging from the Dolby THX surround-sound system and half the people in the theater moaning like they just had bad Chinese. For those hopeless romantics with the huge hearts and the iron stomachs, "The Mirror Has Two Faces" is definitely worth it. But for mere mortals...
...have an uneven record. In some studies they seem to be associated with a dramatic reduction in cancer or other diseases; in others, some antioxidants, such as beta-carotene, actually seem to be associated with an increase. In either event, few contemporary aging researchers think self-medicating at a salad bar is the best way to extend the human life-span. Far more promising might be new research into another by-product of cellular metabolism: glycosylation--or what cooks call browning...
...have a history. About 20 years ago, on a flight from O'Hare to LaGuardia, I absentmindedly poured my salad dressing into my coffee and doused my salad with nondairy creamer. What I later complained about publicly was that until a kindly regional auditor who was sitting next to me drew the mistake to my attention, I had been consuming my meal without noticing the difference...
While the Singhs have added soups, grape leaves stuffed with rice and spices and taboulen (a parsely and cracked wheat salad) to the menu over the past few months, the overall selection is still mostly limited to Cheese-laden Greek salad, hummos, and beef, chicken or lamb shisk-kabobs...