1 III~I.21UI !_rU~<br > DIET<br >"his diet is not a course of punishment for being too fat- it is instead a<br >~xurious low calorie regime. If you want to lose weight, you have to<br >educe calories, but you can do that without weeks of martyrdom<br >hrough the medium of crispbread, diet margarine and undressed<br >alad. Moderation and restraint aren t dirty or unpleasant words:<br >vhat harm ever came from a small lobster or a half bottle of<br >hampagne?<br >3ood plain food<br >n Casino Royale James Bond treated his companion to dinner at the<br >;avoy. She ordered caviar, rognons de veau, pommes souJllees<br >mdfraises des bois, and turning to Bond asked Isn t it shameless to<br >~e so certain and so expensive? It s a virtue; the gourmet spy replied<br >md anyway it s good plain wholesome food. Bond was perhaps<br >~lightly ahead of his time, as until very recently luxury was more likely<br >o be associated with superabundance and baroque complexity rather<br >han purity and simplicity.<br > The luxury foods of the rich have not remained constant. In a<br >;ociety where scarcity is the rule, abundance is the hallmark of the<br >)ig-wig s dining table. Vitellius, least notable of the Roman emperors<br >md classical glutton par excellence (when faced by a revolt of the<br >~raetorian guards he fled with his cook and pastry cook), gave a<br >)anquet at whick seven thousand game birds, two thousand fish,<br >md bizarre concoctions of pike livers and flamingo tongues were<br >;erred. In nineteenth-century Russia the aimless and wilfully per-<br >terse behaviour of the idle ruling class is well observed in Pushkin s<br >tescription of Eugene Onegin s bachelor dinner:<br > Before him roast beef red and gory,<br > and truffles which have ever been<br > youth s choice, the flower of French cuisine;<br > and pate, Strasbourg s deathless glory,<br > sits with Limburg s vivacious cheese,<br > and ananas the gold of trees.<br > More wine he calls to drench<br > the fire of the cutlet s scalding fat. <br >
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