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Bartley’s frappes are potent comfort food. Served up by the happy, grandmotherly figure of Joan Bartley, they are delicious concoctions of milk, cookies or candy, soft serve ice cream and syrup. The frappes have gained nationwide attention in addition to a loyal local following. Just last week, Bartley said, her “legendary” products attracted Adam Sandler, Jesse Ventura and oodles of tourists...
...string of economic crises, political changes, technological advances and marketing breakthroughs gave way to a land with abundant supplies of high fructose corn syrup and trans fats, not to mention Taco Bells and Krispy Kremes on every corner. Catchy fast-food advertising jingles stuck in our heads while cholesterol stuck in our arteries. As physical education programs faced cuts, food was becoming cheaper, tastier and more accessible. By the 1990s, American culture read like a recipe for obesity...
...more than just another suger-coated exploration of cultural history. It demands that we step on the scale, face our problems and come up with palatable solutions. Will anyone in corporate America step up to the plate and eliminate the evils of trans fats or high fructose corn syrup, repackage products with smaller portion sizes (like the eight ounce soda cans sold in parts of Europe), or even discontinue jumbo single serving product lines? What role should the government take? Is it necessary to place a “fat tax” on Double-Stuffed Oreos and Doritos? What...
Donna Hay slips a silky panna cotta out of a ramekin and onto a snow white plate. A drizzle of espresso syrup and, snap, her food photographer gets the shot. Hay, still unsatisfied with the way it looks, studiously removes a drop of syrup with a Q-Tip. No wonder Martha Stewart once offered her a job. But the 34-year-old Australian, who oversees a Sydney-based multimedia lifestyle business that includes a magazine, best-selling cookbooks and an upcoming line of housewares, declined the homemaking maven's offer...
...rights lawyers, the language was gratifying. They have tried to persuade Americans for years that they were not arguing for a "special right" called gay marriage but rather for simple equality. Exclusion from marriage was discrimination, they argued--even if it was a cushy, Vermont-syrup discrimination. For those attorneys, civil unions were, as the court itself said, a "type of labeling." The Massachusetts lawyers wanted no half measures: "It was always about marriage," says lead attorney Mary Bonauto of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders...