http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Supermarket Sleuth 60 Tue, 13 May 2008 03:03:12 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/530096.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/530096.html Tue, 13 May 2008 03:01 EDT A newlywed Sleuth was quite disconcerted to be greeted at the breakfast table by the racket of her spouse crunching through a bowl of Grape Nuts in the morning. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/521570.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/521570.html Tue, 06 May 2008 03:01 EDT There's some good stuff to be found in a pizza, like lycopene-rich tomatoes and calcium and protein from the cheese, but the sodium and saturated fat usually cancel out the benefits. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/512585.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/512585.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Time for a confession: The Sleuth's guilty pleasure is . . . butter. Sweet cream butter, no salt, slathered on crusty bread. But butter started getting a bad rap a few decades ago for its saturated fat, so diligent diners turned to margarine -- until it was discovered that margarine's trans fats are worse than butter's sat fats. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/504078.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/504078.html Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT The Sleuth is a curmudgeonly sort who tends to think that if we were meant to get calcium from orange juice, cows would grow on trees. Or something like that. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/495190.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/495190.html Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT We all know the best way to eat your salad is un-dressed (the greens, that is, not necessarily you). The next best thing is probably a light coating of olive oil and vinegar -- the Sleuth's preferred method, with a little Dijon mustard whisked in. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/483144.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/483144.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT Chicken tikka masala may not be a true Indian recipe -- it likely was concocted in 20th century Britain to please Western tastes -- but there's no doubting that the bits of chicken in a spicy cream sauce are a crowd pleaser. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/477256.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/477256.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:01 EDT We can thank the tiny country of Belgium for at least three contributions to civilization: fine chocolate, the literary detective Hercule Poirot and the Belgian waffle. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/468475.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/468475.html Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT According to some cultures, the tomato and not the apple was the fruit that tempted Eve in paradise. And if the warm, yielding, juicy flesh of a garden-ripe tomato isn't beckoning enough, scientists have discovered that the powerful antioxidant called lycopene is even more available for use by the body when tomatoes are cooked or processed. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/460144.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/460144.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT Brown rice is a lot more nutritious than white rice, but revealing that inner beauty takes time -- about twice as long as it takes to cook white rice, which is brown rice with the bran and germ removed. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/450849.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/450849.html Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:01 EDT It used to be said that someone with a great sales pitch could sell ice to Eskimos. Perhaps the 21st century version should be hawking vitamin water to Americans. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/442311.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/442311.html Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:01 EST Most Mexican food, at least as prepared for U.S. consumption, would never qualify as a healthful choice. But groceries and natural-food stores offer a quick, tasty and healthful option: the frozen burrito. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/433009.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/433009.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:01 EST The Sleuth considers ''energy bars'' as the kind of processed pseudo-food that she does not eat. For portable protein, she tosses some almonds in a plastic bag. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/423531.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/423531.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:01 EST Craving a panini but don't have time to go out of the office for lunch? Several frozen-food companies are promising that hot-off-the-grill taste from the microwave. http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/414500.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1269/story/414500.html Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:01 EST Dark chocolate got the scientific equivalent of a big, sloppy kiss back in 2002, when studies showed that substances in cocoa could be good for cardiovascular health. (Most females of our acquaintance could testify to the broken-heart-healing properties of chocolate, but who knew the American Association for the Advancement of Science would be interested?)