Baltimore City Paper

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Christopher Myers

SPECIAL

The City Paper Diet™: Are you eating the same things in the same way that you were last year? Have you added or subtracted a whole category of food from your diet? How many people do you know who have turned vegetarian this year, and how many who turned back? Some of us have rediscovered the pleasures of rich, stinky cheeses and heavy cream, while our neighbors still look first, always, and only to the saturated fat content on supermarket labels.It all comes down to that word--diet. | Eat Feature

The Halogen Diet: The proponents of this popular eating regimen claim that they never overindulge when dining at these hyperdesigned, luxe restaurants, because either the tapas-style portions are so, well, dainty, or the food is stacked up so forbiddingly, like a game of Jenga, that they're afraid to mess with it. | Eat Feature

The Duchess of Windsor Diet: The saying "no woman can be too rich or too thin" is most often attributed to Baltimore homegirl Wallis Warfield Simpson, who, the evidence shows, was fabulously rich and decidedly thin. | Eat Feature

The Summer of Love Diet: We're not talking about subsisting purely on love, peace, and sheer grooviness, man. | Eat Feature

The Bernie Carbo Diet: Remember 1994? That was when we were told it is OK to eat carbohydrates, any kind of carbs, in whatever quantities we liked, even if it was a pound of pasta, as long as we didn't so much as whisper the word "fat." Now, in some circles, people will cross the room to avoid looking at a strand of angel hair.Why do people crave carbohydrates so much? And we're not talking about bananas and zucchini; we're talking pasta and bread, and pasta. | Eat Feature

The Buffy the Calorie Slayer Diet: The premise of this eating plan is simple: Never ever eat when the sun is up. | Eat Feature

The Restaurant Risk Diet: North America: Alaska, Northwest Territory, Greenland, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Western United States, Eastern United States, Central America | Eat Feature

The Bachelorette's Rules Diet: If you only ever eat out on first dates, you'll naturally eat less, our experts say. | Eat Feature

The Mr. Rogers Diet: The worthy philosophy behind this diet is that Sharing Is Good. | Eat Feature

The Diminishing Returns Diet: This school of dietary thought rests on the following foundation: That people who are presented with a groaning board of food choices--healthy, horrific, and all nutritional points in between--may first gorge on their fattiest faves but will eventually settle down and eat only what they really need. | Eat Feature

The Edwin Mulitalo/Jonathan Ogden Diet: Much to their quarterbacks' eternal gratitude, the Baltimore Ravens have one of the largest offensive lines in the NFL: the skinniest first-string player, Ethan Brooks, goes a dainty 297. | Eat Feature

The Betamax Diet: So you've tried the shakes and the pills, you've carbo-loaded and carbo-lessed, you've turned your dinner plate into a mathematical problem in which X equals thin. | Eat Feature

The "I'll Have a Lite Beer 'Cause I'm Watching my Weight" Diet: It never fails: Hang around a bar long enough and you'll see someone (frequently, but not universally, a female someone) give some variation on the following order: "I'll have the jalapeño poppers, a burger, some fries--oh, and a lite beer." People in other countries tend to view Americans as naively optimistic, and we're betting it's because of our nigh-universal belief in the power of reduced-calorie beverages to offset whatever gastronomic excesses we indulge ourselves in. | Eat Feature

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NEWS

White and Green: Is there ever a good time to get whomped with 28 inches of snow? No. | The Nose

Fringe Benefits: Proximity doesn't always breed similarity. Look at Britain and France--divided by a piddling... | The Nose

Scarey Street: The Big One, as the President's Day snowstorm has been dubbed, temporarily closed down much of the... | The Nose

Model Citizen: Baltimore may not be the center of the fashion world, but it does have Travis Winkey. | Charmed Life by Charles Cohen

How's it Goin?: by Uli Loskot

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COLUMNS

The Big Gamble: Nobody likes taxes. Everybody likes services. And there's no such thing as something for nothing. | Political Animal by Brian Morton

Exit Stage Fright: Editor's note: With this installment we bid adieu to Germ Bag. | Germ Bag by Suz Redfearn

What Gives: It's Mardi Gras time. That's right--March 4 marks this year's installment of Fat Tuesday, and that... | Shirts and Skins by Eddie Matz

American Pie: I know it's been snowing and raining, and there's gonna be a war probably Over There, or most... | Mr. Wrong by Joe MacLeod

True Nobility: Housebound and catching up on some reading last week, I flipped through the December/January issue... | Third Eye by Afefe Tyehimba

Deserter's Just Deserts: The other night, a woman I went to college with was in town and we got together for dinner. | Think Mink by Mink Stole

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