Thursday, February 23, 2006

Instead of bedeviling poor souls a million miles away we should be weeding out the phony balony drug companies who advertise snake oil. Thus, sigh, today, we read glucosamine and sulfate something or other does nothing to relieve arthritis.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Note to Symposia from Symposia: the only way a blog attracts readers is by offering them something-- a job listing, a free trip, good gossip, and in the case of food blogs a recipe and some easy escape mechanism, if only for a minute.

Monday, February 20, 2006

Symposia has been back in Chicago for a month and has consumed more beef in that time than in the three years in New York. It is a strange craving that overcomes one under the big empty skies. Besides there is no fresh fish right from Montauk and the shrimp usually tastes like iodine.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Symposia believes almost nothing about claims of the therapeutic powers of food; such hokum. Thus today we learn in the "news" that calcium and Vitamin D have negligible impact on bone loss. And the FDA grappling with percentages of what constitutes whole grain; 10?, 100? What's the difference? My Grandmother Adams died at 100 and never saw a whole grain or a vegetable that she liked.

I loved David Hockney's interview in TIME; at 68 he smokes because "death awaits us all" and the modern world is all about little Esther with asthma.