| Eat To Live: Now, the low-carbon diet
Students and office workers, you'd better brush up your math skills. On top of counting calories, you can now calculate how much what you're eating is adding in carbon cost. It's a new take on "carbs," only this time we're talking the damage you may be doing not to your body but to the globe. In another possible confusion, Bon Appetit is the company behind it. And it's not the gourmet food magazine. It's a management company that runs cafeterias for corporations and university campuses, operating with the rubric, "Food services for a sustainable future." From May, Bon Appetit, which runs more than 400 cafes in 28 states, will be testing a "low carb diet" that will allow cafeteria diners to choose between, say, a banana that has reached the fruit bowl having been flown in from many greenhouse gas-creating miles away and a locally grown apple.
Easter Basket Recall Announced in Florida
Now that the Easter baskets have been opened, parents and children should be mindful of warnings about certain children's products, according to a Florida newspaper. Watchdog group Consumers Union have cautioned against the eating of Italian-made Kinder Surprise Eggs, hollow chocolate eggs that contain small toys, according to the Florida Sun-Sentinel. The eggs were banned in the U.S. in 1997 but still make it to stores through gourmet sweet shops, candy merchants and ethnic importers. Click here to read the Sun-Sentinel story. In addition, Consumers Union has declared a voluntary recall of about 8,500 Disney plush Easter baskets, whose small ribbons and beads could be considered a choking hazard for small children. The baskets, which are manufactured by Gemmy Industries, are pink and purple plush and themed after the Disney Princesses.
Help Yourself: April 12th update
Avon Precious Moments: I'm searching for Avon Precious Moments mini teapots from February and September. J.A.
Bicycle turn signals: Where can I buy turn signals for a bicycle? B.M.
Books: I'd like a copy of the Roosevelt High School yearbook from 1935. P.W. .
Gramercy Rehab
It's been said (and if it hasn't, then I'll go ahead and say it) that great chefs have many of the same qualities as great musicians. Both disciplines require virtuoso talent, a taste for performing under pressure, and an ability to process prodigious amounts of detail and technique in a unique and creative way. Many chefs, like many musicians, are card-carrying control freaks. Many chefs, like many musicians, keep erratic, unhealthy hours, have a taste for addictive substances (Bordeaux, pork fat, cocaine), and are prone to towering displays of temper. And like musicians, certain chefs are drawn, divalike, to the spotlight, while others are content to make their careers in the shadows, as proficient and talented sidemen. For the last decade or so, Michael Anthony has been one of the most influential sidemen around.
Thrifting: Finding treasure in other people's junk
While driving home from a story one day, I detoured through South Tampa with one mission in mind: The Salvation Army at MacDill Avenue and Bay to Bay Boulevard. As far as thrift stores go, this one is pretty good, I rarely walk away empty-handed and, over the years, have found some unique tchotchke, designer clothes, even one-of-a-kind collectibles. My impromptu foray proved worthy: No sooner had I walked in the door than I noticed the place was unusually packed. Elderly women hovered in the dishes aisle, customers were sweeping up armloads of clothes, pillows, books; one woman even admired a slightly tattered wedding dress, well-cut, I thought, sleeveless, with satin covered buttons and a tulle skirt. As it turned out, it was "Wacky Wednesday" - a weekly event where everything in the store was half off.
North Palm Beach County events calendar: April 18
Benjamin Spradley, a West Palm Beach native, will star as "Squealer" the Pig, in "Animal Farm," which plays Wednesday and Thursday, April 18 and 19 at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse. He is the son of Jon and Ruth Nemec Spradley of Lake Clarke Shores and grandson of the late James and Ruth Nemec of Palm Beach. For tickets, call (561) 832-7469 or go to www.kravis.org. .
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