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Faltering Kidneys. Sodium bicarbonate is at once the commonest, cheapest, most misused and most dangerous of antacids. In normal people, an occasional half-teaspoon in half a glass of water will probably do no harm. But a teaspoonful of bicarb in half a glass of water is enough to neutralize highly acid stomach contents, with some bicarb left over. The leftover can be dangerous, particularly to a person with an unsuspected kidney ailment. The excess bicarb is absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the small bowel, causing excessive alkalinity in the blood. It is the kidneys...
...determined dieter can whip up a filling meal from Duffy-Mott Co.'s new shelf of 60 low-calorie products, including maple syrup (9 calories per teaspoon, v. 50-55 for the real thing), spaghetti sauces (8, v. 20) and chicken à la king (96 per serving, v. 305). Taste, depending on the product, ranges from good to dreadful. Mott thins the fat off its meats, uses only white chicken meat instead of richer dark meat, says all this adds 10% to 12% to its costs. The products retail at a 1% to 200% premium, and sales are swelling...
When the war hammered through Pozzuoli-"It was in the house, in the streets" -Sophia took her place in what is now called Italy's Generazione Bruciata, the Burnt Generation. People were eating one teaspoon of sugar a day and one slice of bread. Her mother once scavenged a cup of water from the radiator of an automobile and rationed it to her two daughters spoonful by spoonful. During one bombardment, Sophia cut her chin. She still has the scar. When the bombing became frequent, the family slept every night in the tunnel of the railroad that runs...
...then stores the product, which is called black oil and looks like axle grease, in old mayonnaise jars. When he is ready to paint, he mixes each pigment he is using with black oil on the palette. Then in a palette cup he stirs up another mixture of (one teaspoon each) mastic varnish and black oil, and a few drops of stand oil and Venice turpentine. At work, he dips his brush first into the mixture in the palette cup and then into the mixture on the palette. Why all this trouble? Safran finds this medium more versatile and easier...
...Textbook is the 81-page McDonald's Manual, which specifies every operation in detail, e.g., hamburgers must be locally purchased "commercial" grade chuck (fat content 17% to 20%), formed into 1.6-oz. patties 3⅝ in. in diameter. Each is to be garnished with ¼ oz. onions, one teaspoon of mustard, one tablespoon of catsup and a pickle 1 in. in diameter. A third of the manual is devoted to Kroc's fetish: cleanliness. So strict is he about it that he posted a sign by the coffee machine in the home office threatening that "anyone who throws...