Friday, August 13, 2004


farewell, julia!

in these days when every clog-footed cooking-school graduate rushes for the big time with a set of cookware endorsements, we mourn the loss of julia child, who refused to sell her soul or the soul of her cooking.

in the great bardo when you meet the ego-demons tempting you to re-birth, just brandish your omelet whisk and go forth to nirvana boldly, julia! as the living kitchen bodhisattva you did in fact liberate us all from the family circle of "u.s. favorites," meaning jello salad.

i'm surprised as the low-carb/glycemic-load thing keeps going on, but it seems to help a lot of people we know. thus i was interested to read about a new form of low-carb chocolate.

usually these candies are sweetened with maltitol, which really ruins the texture of the chocolate, gives it a gummy mouth-feel, and causes some people tummy trouble. this new tagatose sweetner is supposed to offer an improvement for the texture issue, according to the article. . .

however i'm afraid the tummy trouble will still be a problem! i'll be sticking to my el rey 70%, thank you very much.

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