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...scented cheesecake, laden with calories, is no more than fair compensation for eating only salad or fish for lunch. And warm apple pie a la mode is not the obvious self-indulgence it once was, but a vital, midday energy booster for a deserving workaholic. Whatever the reasons (or sweet excuses), desserts are back in style with a vengeance, in restaurants and bakeries, even as diet-obsessed Americans vow to cut their calories and cholesterol levels...
Last summer's drought has produced not only a stunted harvest but also a toxic side effect: a bumper crop of aflatoxin, a fungus-based, cancer-causing corn contaminant. It has turned up in livestock feed corn (although not the sweet corn so dear to the American palate) in nine major corn-producing states. The Illinois Department of Agriculture says a third of the crop samples tested show aflatoxin above permissible levels. But by blending the current crop with grain from uncontaminated past harvests, the corn can be used. Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared...
Balderson said the club also hopes to hold a Southern food festival--including Virginia ham, hominy grits, "real biscuits," cornbread, fried chicken, black-eyed peas and sweet potatoes...
...doors, we decided to stay downstairs. We were hungry, so the two of us and John ordered a Bowl ($9.75), and Dan ordered a beer (prices range $2.25-$2.75). The waiter called over the manager, who carded us. We also ordered Peking ravioli, dun-dun noodles and sweet-and-sour chicken (food's expensive...
Over the decades, Harold Brodkey has become the darling of what might be called the Grecian Urn School of literary critics ("Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"). Brodkey's enormous reputation does not stem from his first book, a collection of nine short stories published back in 1957, but from a novel, Party of Animals, that he famously refuses to finish. To be sure, Brodkey's short fiction has occasionally appeared in magazines over the intervening decades. But it is his lonely struggle to produce a big book that has impressed some pretty influential folks. Yale professor...