Word: tuna
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...dreams. He went chasing after booze. And drugs. And food. By 2000, he weighed nearly 340 pounds and owed thousands of dollars in taxes, student loans and credit-card debt. Cue the "Urban Hermit Plan" - a wildly dangerous scheme to subsist on little else but lentils and canned tuna. MacDonald's memoir recounts the unexpected journey he took, morphing from "Fat Bastard" to "Urban Hermit," taking his readers from Baltimore to Bosnia and back again in a tale of "starvation, hard work and blind luck...
...book is a memoir and nothing else: After just a few months of eating nothing but lentils, tuna, boiled cabbage and black beans, MacDonald had lost nearly 100 pounds. Still, "This is not a diet book. Why not? Because diet books sell crazy. And by 'crazy' I mean sheer, unadulterated cuckoo. Americans spend more than $50 billion a year on diet products, and they spend a huge chunk of that total on books ... Anyone stupid enough to view The Urban Hermit as a diet book and use it as such will probably die of kidney failure. And deservedly so. Seriously...
...Morocco THE END OF TUNA After a weeklong summit in Marrakech, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas slashed its 2009 quota for bluefin-tuna fishing from 27,500 tons to 22,000--a figure that still far outstrips the 15,000-ton limit marine scientists say is needed to prevent the species' extinction. Environmental groups called the meeting a "disaster" and blamed the European Commission for scuttling a proposal that would have imposed stricter regulations...
...millions of foodies who can't get a reservation for one of Ferran Adrià's 30-course tasting menus in Roses, Spain, there is A Day at elBulli (Phaidon; $50). The most useful thing about a book like Adrià's (wildest recipe: preserved tuna-oil air) might be a glimpse into the future. Techniques that start in restaurants often make their way into the home. Says Tim Ryan, president of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.: "In the '50s and '60s, microwaves were very cutting edge...
...suburb of Philadelphia. His mother, a native of Louisiana, moved to Philadelphia after getting a job as a speech teacher and women’s debate team coach at Temple University. His father, who was also raised in Wallingford, was a food broker who sold everything from tuna fish to frozen waffles to dog food...