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...Sani Gourmet Festival (May 17-24), an ambitious yet laid-back mix of workshops, tastings and dinners at a chic marina resort near Thessaloniki. Christoforos Peskias, whose Athens restaurant 48 has one Michelin star, promises to outdo his debut last year, when he deconstructed the Greek salad with tomato sorbet, peppers and feta in jelly, cucumber in foam, onion in thin chips and olive puree. A fine line-up of Mediterranean chefs will complement the Hellenic focus. www.saniresort.gr...
...stew - fast, cheap and filling), Wally's $55 Tuareg banquet is a camel of a different color. Diners have one choice: red wine or white. The set menu is a cavalcade of flavors so perfectly balanced that it hasn't changed in 30 years. First is chorba, a spicy tomato soup rich enough to restore life even after a day fighting the hordes at Versailles. A refined pastilla, a sweet-savory pigeon pastry dusted with cinnamon and sugar, floods the senses with visions of The Thousand and One Nights. After a pair of grilled fresh sardines comes the masterpiece...
...does that mean tomatoes aren't worth eating? Not at all, say researchers. When it comes to prostate cancer in particular, tomatoes may yet offer some health benefits. Many doctors believe that tomato products, and lycopene, don't affect all prostate cancers equally, but may instead help slow the growth only of aggressive and late-stage prostate tumors. "There is some evidence that it's at the later stages of prostate cancer where lycopene might be most relevant," says Dr. Edward Giovannucci, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and principal author...
...early. In these studies, a strong link between lycopene and the reduction of later-stage aggressive tumors emerged. But in post-PSA studies, this association weakened, since fewer men went on to develop the aggressive, advanced form of the disease. "I'm still as enthusiastic about the hypothesis [that tomato products can reduce prostate cancer] as I was five years ago," says Giovannucci. "We just need to figure out a way to do better, more definitive studies to understand how it works...
...American Cancer Society agrees, and says tomatoes still have lots of beneficial antioxidant properties. "This wouldn't change our advice to cancer patients, which is to eat a variety of vegetables and fruits everyday," says Marji McCullough, director of nutritional epidemiology at the Society. "We do encourage people to eat tomatoes and tomato products because they may reduce the risk of certain cancers, but we recommend that in the context of a diet rich in a variety of deeply colored vegetables and fruits. Until we know more, it's sensible to include tomatoes in the diet." For now, though, just...