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......

 Ritual green curry with flatbeans; enormous raisins; sweet/sharp/bitter onions; savory date chutney; short-grained rice cooked in plum juice and rasam in boiled quail's head stock; portabello mushroom slices, sauteed in clarified butter & hot madras curry powder; bamboo shoots and artichoke paste....in homage to Brian Cook and Luc Besson.....Wake up, lads!......Tongues will tell! .......Beverage, extra! Peel me a grape, for a 'palate cleanser'......and, don't eat the brooch!....it's just ornamental, like those red berries that even cardinals are wary of.......