Saturday, July 06, 2002

The NYT Magazine has an excellent article on low-fat vs. low-carb diets. My sister has all but dropped carbs from her diet (even enjoying double-cheeseburgers -- sans bun -- while on vacation recently), and has never looked better. And I think it's been a year or more since she's changed her dietary habits. The perversity of this alternative hypothesis is that it identifies the cause of obesity as precisely those refined carbohydrates at the base of the famous Food Guide Pyramid -- the pasta, rice and bread -- that we are told should be the staple of our healthy low-fat diet, and then on the sugar or corn syrup in the soft drinks, fruit juices and sports drinks that we have taken to consuming in quantity if for no other reason than that they are fat free and so appear intrinsically healthy. So maybe America has been getting fatter and fatter precisely because the guidelines pounded into our head since grade school are just plain wrong. Hmm. 11:03:37 PM

Uncovered this document, last updated sometime during the summer of 1992, while sifting through an old recovered disk. Still sorting out some of the formatting, but I wanted to post it anyway. The more places it exists, the less likely I am to lose it. And the further away I get from the spring and summer of 1990, the more I know that I need to write this particular story. The Beginning is just that. There's a lot more story to tell; my long-lost outline should help kick-start the rest. 9:11:40 PM

We've got some wicked rains, lighting and thunder right now (and, of course, I'm still on my fingers-crossed-surge-protected-PC). Windows are a-rattlin', house is a-shakin'. Could be worse, I suppose. Looks like the area just south of Duluth is getting absolutely rocked. 8:13:09 PM

Added some More Grilling Tips to cover 1) grill temperature, 2) cooking potatoes and other veggies, and 3) steak presentation techniques. 8:04:25 PM

Little Schoolboy cookies (one of the few kinds of cookies that I enjoy semi-regularly) has recently introduced an even darker chocolate version of their already fantastic dark chocolate cookies. Something like 70% cocoa. Great stuff. 7:22:09 PM

Albert Einstein. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." 9:03:47 AM