BMI, Weight, and Me: Let Confusion Reign
Gina Kolata had a brief, interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times about the fact that, according to his BMI of 26.4, our vigorously healthy and virile President is overweight—putting him among the 65% of Americans who fall into this category. Your BMI, or Body Mass Index, is determined by a formula based on weight ...Keep Reading
American Chop Suey
Iron-willed does not even begin to describe my mom. When I was six, she gave birth to my youngest brother, G, and fell into a post-partum depression from which it took nearly a decade to emerge. For the first few years, most days she was still in bed when we came home from school. But ...Keep Reading
Caramel Apple Pastis: Pretty, But Not Practical
I don’t know about you, but I suck at pie crust. In fact, I pretty much gave up on it after being dumped by a boyfriend who was soooo into pie, at the time I half-believed we broke up over my obvious crustal deficiencies. So when I saw this recipe in the November Gourmet, I ...Keep Reading
A Blatant Ad* for Chowhound’s ChowNews
Trying to figure out what to get for your food-obsessed Uncle Leo? Words to Eat By has the answer! Many of you, I’m sure, are familiar with Chowhound. Whenever I’m stumped for a good place for dinner in the theater district, or the best burger in town, or honest takes on the hottest new restaurants, ...Keep Reading
A Blatant Ad* for Chowhound’s ChowNews
Trying to figure out what to get for your food-obsessed Uncle Leo? Words to Eat By has the answer! Many of you, I’m sure, are familiar with Chowhound. Whenever I’m stumped for a good place for dinner in the theater district, or the best burger in town, or honest takes on the hottest new restaurants, ...Keep Reading
