Fallout

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

–Laurence J. Peter

You knew it would happen. Thanksgiving is over, and now we must be subjected to a slew of articles about how to lose that holiday pound. Some of this advice is even packaged in implications designed to make you feel guilty: if you/us big fat Americans didn’t eat all this meat and all this fat at the holidays and get all fat and lazy and gorge yourselves/ourselves on fat and meat the whole world would be a better place.

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What Do You Eat?

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.

–Julia Child

So now that you’ve (hopefully) read what happened and why it happened, let’s talk food. Pretty soon we’ll get to all the objections, but I find the first thing people want to know is:

What do you eat?

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