Word: pasta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spirits--and pretension--flowed freely. Decorative candles flickered. Fine Napa Valley wine was served, as was some cranberry concoction with lots of vodka. We began our meal with a salad-tossed wild greens bathed in a house vinaigrette. Next, fresh pasta in marinara. After dining, we absconded to our reserved booth at the newly opened Temple Bar. It was an Upper East Side dream come true...
...Strolling through the food area, I notice for first time the humongous glass jar of Fruit Loops above the soup and pasta counter. Briefly intrigued...
...pasta with tomato sauce, brisket, cake, cranberry juice. Sit with Geoffrey Stevens...
...never been on my own before, and my dad always cooks for me back home, so I had a little trouble picking up everything," says Kacyvenski, suddenly on the defense himself. "I mean, I had chicken and pasta every night...
What's happening is a boom in low-carb diets, the weight-loss schemes that allow you to eat all the protein you want--steak, eggs, even fatty bacon--so long as you cut way down on carbohydrates like bread, pasta and soda. The fat-embracing diets, like so many other fads that we shouldn't have invited back, are from the '70s, when high-protein plans like the Scarsdale Diet and Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution made fondue hip. Now the low-carb diets are back and bigger than ever. Low-carb-diet books will clog the top four spots...