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...wanted what every traveler wants: to shed the dorky veneer of American-ness and dissolve easily, like sugar in coffee, into the city. We had ducked out of the rain into Mesón del Café, a century-old coffeeshop hidden within the narrow, winding streets of Barcelona’s Barri...
...popular chicken-and-rice dish, was introduced by 19th century immigrants from China's Hainan province; their descendants still sell it on Bangkok streets. Pad Thai, perhaps Thailand's most recognized dish, is also indebted to China. "It's Chinese noodles stir-fried, but with additional palm sugar and tamarind water," explains Thompson. (Read "Food Fit for the Gods - All of Them...
...while both countries struggled with democracy, economically they began to diverge. Haiti had long been exploited, by foreign powers, neighbors and its own rulers. France not only milked Haiti for coffee and sugar production but also extracted an indemnity from it: the young nation had to pay a burdensome sum to its former colonizer in order to achieve France's diplomatic recognition. The lighter-skinned Dominicans looked down on the darker-skinned Haitians: in 1965, even as the Dominican Republic was embroiled in civil war, Haitians were working in Dominican fields and not the other way around. And while Trujillo...
...every night and wake up at the same time every morning. Exercise: it has an antidepressant effect. I'm not going to be like Tom Cruise and say you won't need antidepressants if you exercise, but it is enough for some people. And watch what you eat. For sugar sensitive people - which many depressives are - sugar can be like a drug...
Domar: I had a graduate student years ago who had terrible PMS. She had changed her health habits in a more extreme way than anyone I've met. She had no sugar, no caffeine, no flour. She ran. And when she was 27 - about to get her Ph.D. - she was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer, and she died about two years later. I remember thinking, Here's somebody who was leading what we would call a perfectly [healthful] life. And she still got sick and died. The reason we think we have to follow these rules...