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Article: A Toast to brown rice; Add flavor: Saut whole-grain rice briefly before boiling
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2003
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CONCORD, N.H. - Here's a subtle difference: Most people want to
eat healthier, but few people like health food. Luckily, there is no
reason why you can't have it both ways.
Health food brings to mind platters of dry brown rice tossed with
jiggling cubes of pale tofu, perhaps sprinkled with a flake or two of
seaweed for flavor. Yum!
Eating healthy, on the other hand, is a whole different world. Now
we're talking crushed fresh tomatoes and deep-green basil leaves
tossed with pasta and olive oil, or rich yet still low-fat lasagnas
bursting with slices of zucchini and eggplant.
But the divide is a misnomer. Traditional "health foods" can be as
appealing to the palate as they are to your ...