Obesity is now killing triple the number of people who die from malnutrition........billions of pounds of fat will be packed on between Thanksgiving and the day after New Years Day......

Some basic, but flavorful, Alsatian fare for lunch......displacing my real desire for mille-feuilles, St. Honoré cake and a bowl of triple-chocolate iced cream......compared to which, my simpler peasant fare seems so utilitarian.....I'll save a potato for you, Jeremy Bentham.....these tubers are the great equalizer, after all, aren't they? (but a half dozen Gateau St. Honores ---not 'pictured', since I ate them earlier, with a mug of java--are the real 'satisfiers')

and, never toss those tangerine peels...... a couple of Florentine Lace cookies are the 'satisfaction' component.....remember the adage: 'the last taste is the last forgotten'.....and that is never parsnip latkes with lox and horseradish creme....is it?