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Eat food (as opposed to processed food-like substances). Not too much. Mostly plants. Read Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food": http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594201455/ It's a whole different model from the shifting "red meat is bad" "no, carbs are bad" "avoid fat" "eat omega-3 fat!" madness that has ruled eating for decades.
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Time is at such a premium no matter what your goals are. And since this is HN, I should mention that this seems like a great idea for a startup.
Yeah, there's probably a huge market for places where people could go to eat meals someone else cooked for them!
Total: $3.50 for two people. You could probably feed three with it, the servings are huge.
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Ever try making pizza on it? Flip it over, stick it in the oven as high as it will go and then after it gets NASA hot (this is a good time to have your dough warm up from a nice slow rise in the fridge) just slide your pie on. It will cook up in 3-5 minutes and come out tasting surprisingly legit. Cast iron is the deal.
I love you for sharing this tip. I've got a 10 incher so it won't make big pies but I can definitely get something fast and tasty going on.
Also, I use corn meal on the bottom of the crust so it slides nicely from my cutting board to the pan. Other than that I think it's pretty hard to screw up.
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> Rice and beans. I wouldn't aspire to a Hispanic diet. They're mostly short and chubby as far as I can see.
In that case, could you let us know what you eat so we can avoid being bigoted morons?
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> Rice and beans. I wouldn't aspire to a Hispanic diet. They're mostly short and chubby as far as I can see.
Living on a dry, high-altitude altiplan or on a humid low-land makes a hell of a difference. The diet has something to do, but heat management affects human body growth far more, considering a baseline amount of ingested calories. Hence the children of Mexican immigrants living in California are way taller and have longer arms. That, on top of the genetic selection for individuals with big chest and short arms, as a…
Diet determines build and height in a population. I stand by my assertion. The Dutch have gone from the shortest people in Europe to the tallest and among the healthiest because now they eat lots of meat and cheese. The Sikhs are ethnically identical to neighboring muslims and hindus but are much taller and leaner because they eat a dairy heavy diet. Hispanics are relatively short and chubby because they eat cheap starchy food.
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In that case, could you let us know what you eat so we can avoid being bigoted morons?
How exactly is it bigoted to notice that poor hispanics, who subsist largely on starch, have poor health and builds?
B) Rice and beans isn't only eaten by Hispanics; maybe you should turn off the Lou Dobbs and pay a little attention.
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Ever try making pizza on it? Flip it over, stick it in the oven as high as it will go and then after it gets NASA hot (this is a good time to have your dough warm up from a nice slow rise in the fridge) just slide your pie on. It will cook up in 3-5 minutes and come out tasting surprisingly legit. Cast iron is the deal.
I love you for sharing this tip. I've got a 10 incher so it won't make big pies but I can definitely get something fast and tasty going on.
The easiest way to clean them is with a little kosher salt. It's quite abrasive.
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/08/dining/08mini.html?_r=2...
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How exactly is it bigoted to notice that poor hispanics, who subsist largely on starch, have poor health and builds?
A) You said nothing about economic status, which makes all the difference in the world. Poorer people universally have worse health than middle-income or wealthy people. B) Rice and beans isn't only eaten by Hispanics; maybe you should turn off the Lou Dobbs and pay a little attention.
And you are quite wrong about low income "universally" meaning poor health. There are poor populations all over the world with good health from good diets. The healthiest sub-population in the US, and possibly the healthiest group in the industrialized world, are working class whites in the upper mid-west, in states like Minnesota. They eat a lot of meat.