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Where to find you on a Saturday night: With soy thin crisps on the 3:15 a.m. shuttle...
...more and more schools set up peanut-free zones and as food manufacturers add warning labels that their products might contain particles of peanuts, soy or other allergens, the abundance of caution is starting to trigger a backlash. Given all the attention paid in recent years to food allergies, the number of people in the U.S. who die from them - 15 to 20 a year - is relatively small. More people die each year from bee stings. "But we don't remove flowers from schools or playgrounds," Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, commented recently...
...steaming pot of broth (usually beef, chicken, or miso) kept boiling over a tabletop electric burner in which one drops vegetables, followed by raw pieces of top sirloin beef, chicken, tofu, or, less traditionally, seafood. The cooked chunks are then fished out, dunked in ponzu (a combination of soy and citrus) or sesame sauce mixed by the preparer, and consumed over a bowl of rice. Loosely translated, the name means “swish-swish,” is perhaps meant to imitate the sound of the bits of food as they hit the boiling water.“Shabu...
Makrides asked 272 nursing moms who had given birth prematurely to take six omega-3 capsules a day, to mimic the 1% ratio that full-term babies receive in their final months in the womb. A control group of 273 similar moms took six capsules of soy, a placebo. Overall, the two groups showed no differences in cognitive tests 18 months later, but when Makrides looked at the data by gender, she found that girls getting the omega-3 supplemented breast milk did slightly better than girls receiving regular milk. The smallest premature babies also showed more benefit from...
...demonstrated a variety of cooking techniques that featured ingredients used by dining hall chefs. The menu: delicata squash with browned butter and sage (Harvard consumed 44,000 pounds of squash this semester, according to Kessel), brown rice pancakes with a citrus salsa (dining halls usually serve the pancakes with soy sauce), a lentil dal with locally distributed curry powder, and a vegetable lasagna (the only menu item that is not available in HUDS dining halls). “Almost everything you saw we would probably serve in the dining hall,” Kessel said. He added that HUDS chooses...