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When we visited my grandmother in snowy Alsace, she used to serve us this delicious and filling breakfast rich in fiber and fruity nutrients. It is still one of my favorite winter breakfasts: true baby food for adults. My grandmother usually served her oatmeal variation with freshly baked brioche or kugelhopf (a wonderful cake with raisins and almonds that is one of the great specialties of Alsace). Today, I sometimes find it a filling meal unto itself and I skip the bread. If I want a little more protein, I have a bite of cheese or some yogurt. .
Food for luck
Do you have a New Year's tradition of eating a particular food to bring luck to your family? Many cultures have food traditions to welcome the New Year and ensure their luck and prosperity. According to "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America" the Pennsylvania Dutch ate sauerkraut for wealth and pork. "The pig roots forward into the future, unlike the Christmas turkey, which buries the past by scratching backward in the dirt." The Oxford Encyclopedia says Hoppin' John and greens became traditional New Year's Day fare with the black-eyed peas bringing luck and the rice and greens bringing prosperity starting in the 18th and 19th centuries with African Americans. Some Japanese Americans also serve rice dishes, soups and boiled lobster to signify health and happiness.
Tasty, healthy, easy dieting
In recent culinary fads, the Mediterranean trend of whole grains, seeds, rice and oils is said to create a better you while stimulating your epicurean taste buds at the same time. Then, of course, there's the brutal battle of good carbs versus bad carbs, where complex carbohydrates pin the sugary simple carbs down in a knock out match of weight loss. The truth is, a combination of all of these diets is the real champion to fitness. As long as you include your favorite ingredients (in moderation, if necessary), and take Gunn and Miniati's advice to keeping your recipes fresh and simple, then monotony and boredom should never be a problem in your kitchen. "What you have to do is take advantage of what's out there," Gunn says, "by taking things like ready-chopped vegetables, sauces, tapenades, and mixes.
Though He'd Played a Strad, A Guarneri Stole His Affections
Giuseppe Guarneri, 1698-1744, was the last and greatest of the Guarneri family of violin makers, and the only rival to Antonio Stradivari, c. 1644-1737. Giuseppe identified his instruments with the cipher IHS, referring to Christ, hence his nickname. The Strad Ex Liebig takes its name from a Viennese collector of long ago, the Guarneri from the violinist Fritz Kreisler, 1875-1962. An artist of effortless grace and vitality, he never took a lesson past the age of 12, bewitching audiences everywhere until he retired from concert life nearly 60 years ago. In Mr. Znaider's hands, Kreisler's Guarneri made extraordinary music, singing not so much from the strings as from the mysterious depths of the wood. "Scientifically speaking, it's always the combination: the strings causing the wood to vibrate along with them," says Mr.
Saskatoon in line for another Grand Slam
The Capital One Grand Slam of Curling is almost certainly headed back to Saskatoon next winter. But this time, there won't be a conflict with playdowns. Pierre Charette, who is on the board of the World Curling Players Association, said Sunday that he was impressed with the show Saskatoon put on this week. The event drew 22,893 spectators over five days, with a high of 2,673 Friday night. .
Cocoa power Diet created by cardiologist, wife relies on chocolate
Coffee at the Westport home of cardiologist Dr. Robert Schneider and his wife, Joyce, begins with a plate of freshly baked brownies with walnuts.
After they are consumed, the doctor cannot resist prescribing another of his wife's signature no-fat, sugar-free, chocolate-rich desserts.
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Conversations: Sheryl Crow
Ever since lodging "All I Wanna Do" in our heads back in 1993, Sheryl Crow has been steadily writing and performing solid, decidedly nonwimpy pop music. Her self-titled 1996 record was bolder and rawer than her debut album, "Tuesday Night Music Club," and garnered the kind of mixed reviews that so often greet sophomore efforts. But the contemplative balladry of 1998's "The Globe Sessions" was greeted with raves. She showed she had friends in high places with "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live From Central Park" (1999), which included guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks and Keith Richards. The sunshiny confection "C'mon C'mon" was released in 2002, followed in 2005 by the more pensive "Wildflower." A nine-time Grammy winner, Crow has resisted sugarcoating. Back in 1996, a certain big-box retailer refused to sell her music after being named in her song "Love Is a Good Thing": "Watch our children while they kill each other/ With a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores." More recently, Crow has been vocal about her opposition to the Iraq war.
Owner of Capitola's Surf and Sand awaits outcome of federal suit ...
Many live on fixed incomes and the rent that the Reeds claim is unfair is often the difference between being able to afford medication, gas for the car and food for the table. As Bill Newman, 82, a retired physics teacher from Saratoga puts it, "Fifty-two years ago the family made a choice to do whatever they wanted to with the land. They could have zoned it into lots like the rest of the Jewel Box. They could have applied for commercial zoning and built a hotel and gas station. But they didn't. They decided to stick their necks out, not just for themselves but for a whole lot of people. It's a choice they made and now they've got to live with the long-term consequences. It's just like throwing the money on the table in Reno or Las Vegas." The reality, Reed said, is if the city had allowed the subdivision to go through, those who needed affordable housing would have gotten it under state law, which protects them.
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