Dining Guide
- Everything
old is new again
By F.C. FOODIE
Food Critic
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- For the last few
months of 2003, it seemed you couldn’t drive by Fayette Pavilion
without seeing signs of another restaurant under construction.
Savor
Fresh and Simple Southern Cuisine at Sandra’s Cafe
There are magazines
and books on simplicity. Ways to cut back clutter, make life less stressful.
Sandra’s Cafe is one of those places that defines simple. This
is functional, clean decor and southern-style home cooking without palate-irritating
frills.
Reading
labels right can cut fat, confusion
Studies indicate
that 70 percent of grocery shoppers believe there is conflicting information
about which foods are healthy. The Food and Drug Administration recently
eased its restriction on allowing food manufacturers to make health
claims on product labels.
American
icons
A few months back,
something spurred me to make the Quaker Oats “famous oatmeal cookies”
I’d baked frequently when I was a girl. I picked up the Quaker
Oats tube only to discover that — horrors! — the reliable
recipe on the back of the box had disappeared, replaced with a recipe
inside the lid teasingly called “vanishing oatmeal raisin cookies.”
Lembas
bread, the second-breakfast of Tolkien’s champions
“The lembas
had a virtue without which they would long ago have lain down todie
... this waybread of the Elves had a potency that increased as travelers
relied on it alone and did not mingle it with other foods. It fed the
will, and it gave strength to endure, and to master sinew and limb beyond
the measure of mortal kind.”
Mad
cow disease: What you should know
Recent reports about
mad cow disease have left some people with questions about the safety
of beef and milk products.
Need
a quick breakfast? Turn to your toaster
Parents need to
think fast in the morning. Getting themselves and their kids out the
door while making sure the family has a nutritious breakfast is important.
Books
can help shed pounds
A new handy book
is titled “Get with the Program! Guide to Fast Food and Family
Restaurants” by Bob Greene (Simon & Schuster, $12.95). Greene
is a personal trainer and exercise physiologist and Oprah Winfrey’s
personal trainer. Greene’s latest guide focuses on healthy eating
but zeros in on making healthy choices while eating out.
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