Word: wheatgrass
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...refreshment at most spas and you might find yourself staring at a shot glass of wheatgrass juice and a plate of rice crackers. Not so at the 1930s-inspired spa at London's Dorchester hotel, which boasts what it calls the Spatisserie. As you can probably guess from a frilly moniker like that, this casual but chic restaurant is less about purging and more about pampering. Think extravagant and irresistible afternoon teas; one of those washed down with a bottle of champagne extra brut should undo your workouts from the previous fortnight. This plus an array of what the management...
...program for the week: yoga at 7 a.m.; a minuscule protein shake at 8:15 along with a vat of celery and cucumber juice that morphs from bland to blah with each mouthful; an 8:30 hike involving prolonged uphill slogs; at 11:15 more juice and a wheatgrass chaser (imagine a concentrate of freshly cut weeds mixed with nail-polish remover). Then there's more yoga, lunch and time for a treatment, perhaps from Antonin Zemlicka, a Czech-born therapist who punctuates his savagely deep massages with epigrammatic statements. "A little torture is good," he says...
...program for the week: yoga at 7 a.m.; a minuscule protein shake at 8:15 along with a vat of celery and cucumber juice that morphs from bland to blah with each mouthful; an 8:30 hike involving prolonged uphill slogs; at 11:15 more juice and a wheatgrass chaser (imagine a concentrate of freshly cut weeds mixed with nail-polish remover). Then there's more yoga, lunch and time for a treatment, perhaps from Antonin Zemlicka, a Czech-born therapist who punctuates his savagely deep massages with epigrammatic statements. "A little torture is good," he says...
Nutritional supplements can seem baffling, what with all those concoctions of exotic-sounding plants and roots. And there are almost as many books on the subject as there are herbs and vitamins. Fortunately, experts in the field have identified a few authoritative titles to help separate the wheatgrass from the chaparral...
...working as a highly paid writer for "Alf." The movie Jerry Stahl works as a writer for an "alien puppet show" called "Mr. Chompers," who is green instead of orange. As Jerry becomes more adicted, he becomes ore L.A., foregoing real food in favor of shots of wheatgrass and running five miles every day (after a quick pick-me-up). We watch Jerry's appetite for smack turn to one for cuddling. Lauren Mechling...