Neighborhood places to keep on the your interest House The Newsletter of by Byron Fink know the ones I mean: Betsy Walking back to Ross House, Independence Hopkinson House • Fall 2010 Hopkinson House after seeing Hall, National Constitution a movie at the Ritz Five, I Center, Elfreth’s Alley, etc. passed a window on Walnut Marvelous places, all, but I Street near Third that read have my own favorites.) Polish American Cultural My list covers a mish- Center. I said to myself: “This mash of Museums, Exhibition qualifies as a Place of Interest.” Halls, and Enjoyable Places For some time I have Worth Visiting. Maybe in a been making a mental list future issue of On the House of My Favorite Places of I’ll be allowed to describe Interest Within Easy Walking Favorite Places that are Distance of Hopkinson somewhat farther away but House. Now’s the time to still (theoretically) walkable. make a written compilation. So, here it is. Of course it isn’t Curtis Center an exhaustive aggregation— 6th & Walnut Streets I’m sure that there are 215-238-6450 places that have escaped my In the east lobby on Ben Franklin statuary (left) and a Renaissance ceiling at Philadelphia’s attention—and I know that 6th Street, like a gigantic Public Ledger Building. a few have been covered in pointillist creation, Louis past issues of On the House. C. Tiffany’s extraordinary, glass, was inspired by and the west lobby, on 7th Street, (Then, too, my list does not 51-foot-wide mural, “The expanded from a small the Curtis Center atrium I include Philadelphia’s familiar Dream Garden”, made from painting by Maxfield Parrish. find the most ravishing in the high-profile powerhouses. You 100,000 pieces of iridescent I have visited it many times. In world. Its airiness, its marble columns resembling palm trees and its gently-cascading Editorial: What’s inside season. See articles by Byron Fink, Lynn fountain make it a place of Miller, Ralph Rodriguez, Susan Tomita beauty and calm. by Nelly Childress and Scott & Nelly Childress intended to You will find in this issue information refresh your memories of theaters, musical National Liberty Museum from Council on the hallway renovation and artistic venues, museums, interesting 321 Chestnut Street project and also about the swift response sites and restaurants in our neighborhood. 215-925 2800 of Hopkinson House to the arrival of These articles were definitely not written as Offering 200 permanent bedbugs with a “tip sheet” on keeping them advertisements! and changing exhibits, this out of your individual units. Management’s David Roberts’ nutrition article on beautiful museum in a historic recycling column is a must-read. sugar is most informative—a good sequel building has a powerful, I am somewhat sad when summer to his “praise of fat” that appeared in the complex glass sculpture by shows signs of ending: regretting the summer issue. Don’t miss Ralph Rodriguez’ Seattle artist Dale Chihuly. lazy days of swimming, reading, sipping article giving tongue-in-cheek advice on the The museum is adjacent cool drinks and recharging my batteries - management of out-of-town visitors. to the Chemical Heritage Absolutely Wonderful! But only for a while! Another new feature is a Hopkinson Foundation, which is located Fall means, to most of us, resuming activities House social and activities calendar at 315 Chestnut Street, (215) while awaiting and preparing for the holiday (October–December). ■ 925-2178. see places, page 9 Photography: Byron Fink Byron Photography: 2 • FALL 2010 • ON THE HOUSE on the Introducing architectonics ouse by Ralph Rodriguez “bloom” in the mouth. And, directly bring to his or her HEditorial Committee As Philadelphians it of course, the New Yorker attention your vanishing Nelly M. Childress Enny Cramer is our duty to uphold our must perfect looking rueful carbon foot print. The Byron Fink special traditions in the yet disdainful when the advanced host may consider Lynn Miller management of out-of-town conversation, as it must, only outlining the aerobic David S. Roberts Ralph Rodriguez visitors. The Londoner turns to what the price of his benefits of outrunning the Dan Rothermel must find an out-of-the- studio apartment would buy flash mobs and the insights Susan Tomita way Indian restaurant—and in Dubuque. you daily gain into the Graphic Design practice not sweating while In each case the goal is Empire of Byzantium by Desperate Hours Productions [email protected] eating the specialty of the clear: make the out-of-town keeping up with local politics. house that brings his guests guests feel that they have At some point, there will Advertising Nancy Snyder to their knees in an agony somehow made a mistake by be the forced march of the (215) 627-1731 of burning tongue and tears. living in a leafy suburb with out-of-town guests through Council Liaison The Roman host must be excellent schools in a four- Society Hill. The kids will Jason Norris well practiced in pointing the bedroom, three-bathroom, be texting, so we can pretty Photography car vaguely down the avenue, two-car garage home. much ignore them; but what David Roberts at terrifying speed, while In Philadelphia, we bring of the parents who will be Issue Contributors directing his full attention, to the task the old standbys forever asking about parking Nelly Childress and field of vision, to the about walking everywhere, and privacy? Here is where Scott Childress Byron Fink conversation in the back the symphony being only the Philadelphian brings Judi Forte seat. The Parisian host must eight blocks away, and that out his “my architecture is Lynn Miller remember how to stare down the local restaurants are better than your architecture” Jason Norris David Roberts the waiter while returning uniformly excellent. If the gambit. As in any interaction Ralph Rodriguez the excellent bottle of wine out-of-town guest is a bit where the goal is to win, Susan Tomita for some obscure failure to dense, you may be forced to see visitors, page 21 Photography: David Roberts. David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • FALL 2010 • 3 Message from Council Welcome news and unwelcome guests by Jason Norris available in the lobby. Bedbug Tip Sheet With the summer drawing This summer also marked to a close, Council is happy the arrival (and departure) of Please read carefully and follow the recommendations to report that the hallway some unwanted guests for a concerning bedbugs given in the four-page “Message From renovation project—approved handful of residents. Although Management” distributed in August. 1. Learn to identify the signs of bedbugs. If you suspect unanimously by Council the sources from which our that you have them, call the office (215-923-1776) immediately. earlier in May—is well under bed bug visitors arrived are 2. Do not use pesticide bombs or foggers—they can way. Although changes may unknown, Management took make conditions worst. A pest management professional will not yet have taken place on swift action to coordinate be needed. your respective floor, our a response to minimize the 3. To prevent and contain bedbugs: management team has been infestation of bed bugs. As A. Seal wall cracks and crevices. coordinating the behind-the- a result of these efforts and B. Clean and remove clutter, particularly in bedrooms scenes efforts including, among the diligence of the affected and around upholstered furniture. other things: soliciting bids for residents, the problem has been C. Inspect beds, upholstered furniture and rugs. various elements of the design, contained. With the increase D. Vacuum carpets, floors, bed frames and furniture obtaining necessary approvals, in bed bug infestations across often. Bag and seal vacuum bags in plastic before disposing of them in the trash room. and preparing the building the country (including upscale 4. Inspect suitcases before packing when leaving hotel for construction. As such, hotels, stores, and apartments), rooms. When back home, keep luggage off your bed and we anticipate that temporary it is up to each of us to remain upholstered furniture (leaving luggage in your bathroom until protection and fan work will diligent and take precautions you unpack may be prudent if space permits). begin on or about September to protect against bringing 20, with the renovation of bed bugs into our building. the 31st floor beginning on Echoing the earlier letter from some guidance on the steps to Thank you for your time, or about September 27. Of Management on the subject, avoid introducing bed bugs to and I look forward to the next course the preview board is still the following tip sheet provides your individual units. update. ■ Message from Management Changing, clarifying House’s recycling policy by Judi Forte personal), phone books, food to-go containers Mixed paper: hardback books, This column is being boxes (remove plastic liner), #7 Many mixed plastic tissues, paper towels, napkins, dedicated to recycling. The no food-soiled paper or containers and plastic wax-coated cups or containers, items which can be recycled boxes, computer paper, flyers, products food-soiled paper, file folders have changed since August 1, wrapping paper (no foil or These are just some Plastic: styrofoam, plastic bags, 2010. plastic wrap), soda and beer examples of what you can PVC pipe, packing inserts or cartons recycle, so look for the number “peanuts” What you have been on any plastic container to be Other: chemicals, rubber, recycling The following items may sure. Please be sure to wash out wood, and ceramic or porcelain Plastic containers: now also be recycled all food and beverage containers plates and cups #1 Soda, water bottles Plastic containers: before putting them in the For further information #2 Milk jugs, detergents, #3 Rigid plastic containers recycling bins. on Philadelphia recycling, go to shampoo bottles and juice bottles Cardboard: empty and http://www.philadelphiastreets. Metal: tin and aluminum cans, #4 Plastic tubs and lids from flattened com/recycling.aspx. empty aerosol cans, and empty butter, margarine or similar From Council, paint cans products What you cannot recycle: Management and staff at Glass: jars and bottles #5 Yogurt containers and Metal: aluminum foil, pots/ Hopkinson House, have a safe Mixed papers: newspaper, deli trays pans, paper clips and wonderful coming holiday magazines, mail (junk and #6 Plastic cups, plates and Glass: light bulbs, window glass season. ■

ON THE HOUSE • FALL 2010 • 5 Is sugar the poison in the pantry? by David Roberts After attending Dr. on British TV (by me among Eating starch did not Seventy years ago, when Bernard’s lectures an English others) declaring that table produce any of the changes I was a child, most overweight surgeon, William Harvey, sugar was the only poison in indicative of cardiovascular people were elderly. I never saw returned to England where he the modern diet. He wrote a disease (greatly increased a person of any age who today conveyed Bernard’s advice to book called Pure, White and triglycerides, sticky platelets, would be considered obese. his patient, William Banting, Deadly: The Problem of Sugar, arterial plaque.) This led Adult-onset (type 2) diabetes a recently retired upscale which was published in 1972 Yudkin to conclude that starch was unheard of. Infectious undertaker who was very but is now out of print. I have a is relatively benign compared to diseases, especially pneumonia, concerned about his obesity. battered copy of the American table sugar, even though starch tuberculosis, and polio, were Banting had undertaken edition, which was renamed is digested to glucose in the common causes of death but strenuous exercise, including Sweet and Dangerous. intestine. Eating large amounts their role as killers has since rowing, to no avail. Harvey In chapter 10 of his book of fat and cholesterol raised been diminished by vaccines designed a diet for Banting that Professor Yudkin summarizes blood cholesterol and caused a and antibiotics. was low in sugar and starch but experiments performed by slight increase in triglycerides The infectious diseases high in meat, fish, and game. himself and others on the but it induced none of the have been largely replaced, Banting diligently followed effects of feeding table sugar, more specific changes. as threats to life and health, the diet and lost 50 pounds in starch, and fats to laboratory Only about a third of the by what is often called the about 18 months. He felt much and farm animals, birds, men in the experiments reacted metabolic syndrome. The healthier and was so pleased and human volunteers. In adversely to sugar, suggesting victims of this syndrome that he wrote and published a all species, eating sugar as a genetic difference in typically suffer from the deadly pamphlet describing the diet the source of carbohydrate susceptibility. Female rats were trio– obesity, type 2 diabetes, and its great benefits. caused not only weight gain resistant to the cardiovascular and cardiovascular disease. changes as were women of The increasing incidence of the reproductive age, indicating metabolic syndrome in recent In the early 1800s fat people a protective effect of female years has been characterized hormones. as an epidemic, and there has were advised to decrease Professor Yudkin, who been much debate about its confessed to being a reformed cause. consumption of potatoes, the sugar addict, recommended a diet that limited carbohydrate Carbohydrates and health only affordable carbohydrate intake to 60 grams (about In the early 1800s fat 2 ounces) per day. This was people were often advised to for most people. adopted by others—The Air decrease their consumption Force Diet, The Drinking of potatoes, in those days Man’s Diet, etc. In about the only affordable source of The news of Banting’s but increases in the blood 1975 a professional colleague carbohydrate for most people. success spread widely. In concentrations of insulin, recommended the low- In the middle 1800s this advice England, dieting to lose weight cholesterol, triglycerides and carbohydrate diet to me, was echoed and expanded in became known as “banting.” In cortisol. Very significant was explaining that it avoided Paris by Dr. Claude Bernard, Germany the great statesman, an increase in the stickiness stimulating the production who is often described as the Bismarck, used a version of the blood platelets, the tiny of insulin and the resulting father of scientific medicine. of Banting’s diet to shed 60 cells that initiate the formation conversion of blood glucose to Bernard gave public lectures pounds in less than 12 months. of blood clots. When the fat. I was impressed both by in which he discussed the In the years following various animals and birds were the rationale and by the fact causes and control of increased World War II the slaughtered they were found to that I would be able to eat as body weight. On the basis distinguished English have developed fatty deposits much as I liked of everything of empirical observations he nutritionist, Professor John and atheroma (plaque) in else, especially steak. I bought attributed excessive weight to Yudkin of London University, their main arteries. (This a small carbohydrate-counter the consumption of sugary and claimed that the metabolic procedure was not permitted book and proceeded to eat starchy foods, and advocated syndrome was caused by the in the human volunteers, so accordingly. I lost several eating less of these foods as the excessive consumption of sugar. their arteries could not be pounds in the first week and 38 way to lose weight. Dr. Yudkin was often seen examined.) see sugar, page 26 Sell to your neighbor at the Hopkinson House! ON THE HOUSE • FALL 2010 • 7 First Friday: Still alive after 20 years by Susan Tomita The galleries tend to Rain or shine, art be the least crowded during galleries in Old City stay the first two hours, from open from 5 to 9 p.m. on 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This the first Friday of each is your chance to inspect month. First Friday paintings unobstructed originated in 1991, formed and take your time walking by the nonprofit Old City around the sculptures. Arts Association which It’s also an excellent time continues to host the free to talk to gallery folk and cultural event. artists without having to Once a busy commercial shout or feign hearing. In waterfront district, the a calm setting, even the Old City neighborhood most formidable-looking in the early 1970s saw its proprietors and artists are industrial and warehouse approachable. buildings begin to be First Friday peaks passersby. Proprietors I restored and converted into during the last two hours, spoke with recently insist artists’ lofts. As a thriving from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. that participation in First arts community grew, art You may have to bob and Friday is still a must. galleries, design firms, and weave your way through the First Friday remains an performance groups moved galleries, some of which are important destination for in, and restaurants, shops, tiny or narrow. Lines form artists, students, and and nightlife emerged in the outside of the most popular buyers to engage in 1980s and 1990s. galleries, and waves of conversation and learn Today, from roughly people spill out onto the from each other. Front to Third Streets and street. In August, the On First Friday from Market to Vine, you’ll crowds were rather thin. First Friday patrons overtake sidewalks, you see find more than 40 galleries In September, Fringe 2nd Street (top) and nearby fashionistas, babystrollers, housed in large and small Festival-goers and college shopping and art establishments, and suburban gawkers. spaces. First Friday is an students upped the First such as Gallery Pii (bottom) at You hear street musicians, opportunity to showcase a Friday population. 342 Race Street. tourists, and panhandlers. wide range of new works The arts community You also find all manner of and new artists, see what’s is seeing less foot traffic, Has First Friday lost artwork, jewelry, trinkets, happening on the art scene, slower sales, and fewer its cachet after 20 years? and indescribables displayed and experience the latest collectors—attributable to For many gallery on tables, crates, and in Old City dining, retail, the sluggish economy, no stakeholders, the buzz has bedspreads. Welcome to and theaters. It’s a mingling doubt. A number of stalwarts changed since its heady the outdoor galleries at of casual browsers, serious have had to change locations beginning. It’s no longer Old City’s monthly event, buyers, and students from over the years, such as ArtJaz, a unique cultural event in where artist/proprietors are the city and suburbs. which recently moved across the city or the region. Even as willing to explain their the street, and the 3rd Street Lancaster and Doylestown work as are their indoor Note: You can pick up Gallery, which continues sponsor their own First counterparts. gallery guides and other to thrive on Second Street. Fridays, as do most major In this downbeat literature at many of the Old Gone are the First Fridays cities across the country. economy, a vibrant open City galleries, or refer to the of free wine, cheese, and But First Friday in house by the arts community daily newspapers’ weekend crudités year round. Some Old City still functions is like a ray of sunshine. sections, weekly entertainment galleries now hold mostly like a neighborhood open First Friday remains free papers, and the Old City Arts invitation-only receptions house. New galleries, such and nearby. It’s worth a visit, Association website (http:// and schedule important as LGTripp, do open. The especially if you haven’t been www.oldcityarts.org) for receptions on non-First Clay Studio added outdoor to it lately. Check it out while gallery listings. Fridays. demonstrations to attract it lasts. ■ Photography: Susan Tomita Susan Photography:

ON THE HOUSE • FALL 2010 • 9 A look at our local theater companies by Ralph Rodriguez season includes A Moon for the Independence Studio Italian, My Father is Jewish Within a short walk of Misbegotten and Wanamaker’s on 3 is housed within the and I’m in Therapy. Later this Hopkinson House is a wide Pursuit, a new play by Cuban Walnut Street Theatre (825 season a world premiere, The range of theater options. Two American playwright Rogelio Walnut Street) in a living room Bridge Club by the Bay Area’s large neighborhood venues Martinez about Philadelphia’s sized space on the third floor Richard Raskind, explores primarily present Broadway Nathan Wanamaker in 1911 reached via a tiny elevator the relationship of a man revivals. The 2010–11 season Paris. Contact http://www. located just past the Walnut and woman who meet on the at The Forrest Theatre (1114 ardentheatre.org or (215) Street Theatre box office. The Golden Gate Bridge while Walnut Street) includes Les 922-1122. intimate space highlights the calculating the distance to the Miserables and Mary Poppins. The Lantern Theater energy and commitment of the water below. Contact http:// Contact http://www.forrest- (923 Ludlow Street) is located frequently young performers. www.societyhillplayhouse.org or theatre.com. The main stage on a side street adjacent to St. The 2010–11 season includes (215) 923-0210. of the Walnut Street Theatre Stephen’s Church (19 South The Glass Menagerie and The Shubin Theatre (407 (825 Walnut Street) has a 10th Street). Like the Arden, Ugly One, a farce on the theme of Bainbridge Street) is located 2010–11 season that includes the Lantern presents classics plastic surgery by contemporary in a 43-seat storefront space. “Miss Saigon” and “White and new works. The space here German playwright Marius von The rolling season includes Christmas.” Contact http://www. is small, funky and soulful but Mayenburg. Contact http:// productions from varied local walnutstreettheatre.com or (215) innovative stage design and www.walnutstreettheatre.com or companies. This summer, 574-3550. directing make lemonade. The (215) 574-3550. Quince Productions presented The Arden Theatre (40 theater is on the second floor (no Society Hill Playhouse Beirut by Alan Bowne, written N. 2nd Street) showcases elevator). The 2010–11 season (507 South 8th Street) has in the 1980s about a love local talent in presentations includes Uncle Vanya and a play been in operation for over a half affair between a man with a of theatrical classics and new by contemporary Canadian century. A first floor cabaret mysterious unnamed illness works in a large, modern space playwright Morris Panych, Vigil, seats 99 and has offerings (AIDS?) and an uninfected carved out of an old post office. in which an elderly and well- including jazz and comedy. The woman in a Manhattan of Expect Kurt Weill rather than to-do Aunt may not be as near main stage space seats 250 and quarantined neighborhoods. Andrew Lloyd Webber and death as advertised. Contact is located on the second floor Contact http://www. Eugene O’Neil rather than http://www.lanterntheater.org or (no elevator). The 2010–11 shubintheatre.com or (215) Neill Simon. The 2010–11 (215) 829-0395. season includes My Mother’s 592-0119. ■ Neighborhood places to keep your interest places, from page 1 THE HAPPINESS of History at Atwater Kent. It is open 10:00 a.m. to Pennsylvania Hospital OF HIS PEOPLE)… Founded by one of the earliest 4:00 p.m. Monday through 8th & Spruce Streets THIS BUILDING WAS manufacturers of household Saturday and presents (215) 829-3000 FOUNDED FOR THE radio receivers, the museum special events and offers These unique, serene RELIEF OF THE SICK houses a great collection of guided tours daily. grounds must have been AND MISERABLE.” The Philadelphia history and soothing to 18th-century grounds also include memorabilia. Fireman’s Hall patients who would a “Physic Garden” with the 147 N. 2nd Street probably have been types of herbs, trees, and Polish American Cultural (215) 923-1438 terrified at the prospect of shrubs that were grown for Center In a restored nineteenth needing to go to a hospital. medicinal purposes in the 308 Walnut Street century firehouse at Second The cornerstone, laid by 18th century. (215) 922-1700 and Arch Streets—just up Benjamin Franklin in This cultural Second Street from Elfreth’s 1751, when we were still Atwater Kent Museum organization has a small Alley—the Fireman’s the subjects of an absolute 15 S. 7th Street but interesting permanent Hall exhibits the largest monarch, reads, in part, (215) 685-4830 exhibition introducing collection of colorful antique “GEORGE THE SECOND Temporarily closed, the viewers to heroes of Polish fire-fighting equipment in HAPPILY REIGNING museum will reopen in 2011 history: Chopin, Marie America. Bring the kids! (FOR HE SOUGHT as the Philadelphia Museum Curie, Paderewski, etc. see places, page 17 OUTSTANDING EXCEPTIONAL

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For an urban center that, midday for spaghetti al tonno Tuesday through Friday, when Deco mural of people having 40 years ago, was whimsically or cannelloni al Medici if what drinks are $6. The menu in fun—probably on someone depicted as a city of gracious you don’t want is a hot dog on late summer offered, among else’s dime. A snazzy Jazz Age dining—at least, if you dined a bun. Select your wine from a a dozen choices, pan-roasted bar greets all comers. Lunch is in your own home—Center nice list of Italian or California corn purée ($14), trout with a served Monday through Friday City Philadelphia today surely vintages. rainbow of vegetables ($18), ($7-$22), and dinner every has about as many restaurants La Buca is anything but and a sautéed Long Island night of the week. per square foot as any other trendy. The unchanging décor breast of duck ($28). The dinner menu offers comparable quarter on the of dusty grapes hanging from Leave behind the pleasant a sizeable selection of poultry planet. That includes our trellises, plus the rather elderly but undistinguished dining and fish as well as the expected immediate neighborhood, male and Italianate staff—in space inside when you can glorious hunks of red meat. where dining out can be a tuxedos, no less—may make chow down in the gorgeous You can spend $44 for Dover satisfying, even a memorable, you think you’ve fallen into a garden (assuming cooperative sole or a 16-ounce steak au experience. And there’s plenty time-warp. But the waiters are weather and no prior booking poivre. All side dishes are extra. to choose from. polite and knowledgeable, and by a wedding party). There, The wine list is extensive and I meandered just west of expensive. There are nicely Washington Square for a start, appointed rooms for private then ambled north to Walnut Center City today surely has parties. Do have a swank night and Chestnut and back to the out here, especially if rich Square again, through the about as many restaurants Uncle Elwyn is picking up the heart of what is now center tab. If not, you can always go city’s Restaurant Row East. I per square foot as any for the amazing 10-oz. Kobe ignored the fast-food joints, burger lunch special for only and waddled before I made it other comparable quarter $6 and enjoy the luxe without south of Hopkinson House. If the swag. I’d been even more gluttonous, on the planet. Fat Salmon. 719 Walnut, I could easily have added replacing the former Shinju another dozen to those below Sushi bar. Décor has gone by widening the circumference the rooms’ tired charms exude the Old Philadelphia ambience upscale to the very top, with of my circle by a few blocks. authenticity straight from is palpable, its splendor a wavy, light-caressed wall to Here is the reaction of one Calabria. The kids may find growing with every glass of make you think you’re at the gourmand(?) to many of our it all a little weird, but your wine beneath the canopy of shore or on an ocean voyage at nearby restaurants. Aunt Giuseppina should be trees. Bring your cousins from twilight. The place is utterly Ristorante La Buca. 711 charmed. Nebraska and they’ll talk about Japanese in its orientation, Locust Street. The old standby “M” Restaurant at it long after they’re back on the though with both Japanese may be a caverne down a long Morris House. 231 S. 8th farm. and Korean chefs, dishes are staircase beneath an ungainly Street. Tucked in beside Chops. The grand old finished with a distinctive flair brown-brick building, but the elegant 18th-century PSFS Bank at the corner of somewhere beyond Nippon. this ristorante Italiano has house that is now a boutique Walnut and 7th Streets was For six pieces of sushi and only always had airs not possible in hotel, M offers thoughtfully transformed into Oceanaire $9, try either the Fat Salmon South Philly, where its parents prepared dishes with a menu a few years back. Now it’s a special roll, which combines came from. Here, the pesce are that changes weekly, entrees glamorous steak-and-chop cucumber, tomato, cream wheeled to your table so you priced from $19 to $25. 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October 4 Washington Square Citizens’ League** Afternoon Discussion in the Solarium 1:30-3:00 pm: “The Tea Party Movement: Who, What, and Why” Discussion Leader: Faith Abbey Contact Nelly Childress (215-627-3471)

October 5 Exercise Class with Byron Fink And every In the Solarium 10:15-10:45 am Tuesday & Thursday Just walk in

October 18 Washington Square Citizens’ League Afternoon Discussion in the Solarium 1:30-3:00 pm: “Is the Constitution a ‘Sacred Cow’?” Discussion Leader: Paul Coyne Contact Nelly Childress (215-627-3471)

October 24 Washington Square Citizens’ League Sunday Reel discussion of “serious” films at the Ritz Meet at 4:00 pm for convivial exchanges in which your opinion counts. Contact Larry Meehan ( 215-925-6464)

Date & Program Washington Square Citizen’ League To be Announced Evening Program in the Solarium 7:00-7:30 pm a social with light refreshments 7:30 pm Program Contact Nancy Snyder (215-627-3471) or Jay McCalla (267-455-7015)

** Washington Square Citizens’ League at Hopkinson House is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization. Started in 1996 by residents for residents of Hopkinson House, it is dedicated to motivating residents of Hopkinson House to become engaged in the political and social processes of the day Social & Activities Calendar at A special insert to Hopkinson House On the House November 2010

November 1 Washington Square Citizens’ League** Afternoon Discussion in the Solarium 1: 00-2:30 pm “General Election in Pennsylvania” Our Democratic and Republican Committeepersons will give the reasons why their candidates are best for Pennsylvania and particularly for Philadelphia.” Contact Nelly Childress (215-627-3471)

November 2 Pennsylvania General Election In the Solarium, 7:00 am-8:00 pm

November 2 Exercise Class with Byron Fink And every In the Solarium 10:15-10:45 am Tuesday & Thursday Just walk in

November 15 Washington Square Citizens’ League Afternoon Discussion in the Solarium 1:30-3:00 pm “Postmortem of National Election” Discussion Leader: Lynn Miller

November 21 Washington Square Citizens’ League Sunday Reel discussion of “serious” films at the Ritz Meet at 4:00 pm for convivial exchanges in which your opinion counts. Contact Larry Meehan (215-925-6464)

Date & Program Washington Square Citizens’ League To be Announced Evening Program in the Solarium 7:00-7:30 pm a social with light refreshments 7:30: pm Program Contact Nancy Snyder (215-627-1731) or Jay McCalla (267-455-7015)

** Washington Square Citizens’ League at Hopkinson House is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization. Started in 1996 by residents for residents of Hopkinson House, it is dedicated to motivating residents of Hopkinson House to become engaged in the political and social processes of the day Social & Activities Calendar at A special insert to Hopkinson House On the House December 2010

December 6 Washington Square Citizens’ League** Afternoon Discussion in the Solarium 1:30-3:00 pm “The Environmental, Economic and other Consequences of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania” Discussion Leader: Mauriel Holland Contact Nelly Childress (215-627-3471)

December 2 Exercise Class with Byron Fink And every In the Solarium 10:15-10:45 am Tuesday & Friday Just walk in

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** Washington Square Citizens’ League at Hopkinson House is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization. Started in 1996 by residents for residents of Hopkinson House, it is dedicated to motivating residents of Hopkinson House to become engaged in the political and social processes of the day An invitation to On the House readers ON THE HOUSE • FALL 2010 • 17 Our end-of-summer Big Band party

Left: Refreshment table with George Koch, Larry Meehan, and Paul Coyne (from left). Right: The Big Band from the Valley’s orchestra (top) and singers (bottom).

by Nelly Childress A lively program, under danced to such tunes as a rousing John Philip Sousa’s On September 19 in the baton of Bob Deddy “Copacabana” and “Boogie “Stars & Stripes Forever,” and ideal weather, the Big Band with lovely vocalist Marge Blues;” few were those who more. Many thanks to resident from the Valley entertained Miller, emboldened many to could sit still. Refreshments volunteers of HHOA’s Special residents and their guests dance spontaneously. Rosina were plentiful and tasty. Events Committee: Connie scattered around the splendid Coltellaro engaged in a solo All had a jolly time—even Pearlstein, Paul Coyne, Bari display of flowers and performance to the exuberant the children—listening to Shor, Larry Meehan, Susan under the watchful eyes of tune of “Zorba’s Dance” by “Moonlight Serenade,” “In the Tomita, Lynn Miller, and Stonorov’s reclining sculpture. Mikis Theodorakis. Others Mood,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” George Koch. ■ Neighborhood places to keep your interest places, from page 9 all the way up to the full and a larger-than-life stone circulation newspapers with National Museum of interior height of the building. statue of Benjamin Franklin the invention of the rotary American Jewish History Each of the lower three floors that once stood at 6th and press in 1846. Another 5th & Market Streets is a loggia with exuberant Chestnut facing Independence Philadelphia first! However, (215) 923-3811 wrought-iron railings. It’s Square. I often make a the Philadelphia Record, the Soon to be in its new great. I love it and pop in for a deliberate detour when Evening Bulletin, and the building, a grand opening is look every time I pass by. Lots passing by, to gaze admiringly Public Ledger are gone. Who planned for Friday, November and lots of places to grab a at the ceiling and remembers them today? 12. bite and have a coffee. to wave my hand at Ben Franklin, who most assuredly Historic Philadelphia The Bourse Building Public Ledger Building deserves his Renaissance Center Atrium Lobby ceiling. The building once 6th & Chestnut Streets 21 S. 5th Street 6th & Chestnut Streets housed the now-gone (215) 629-4026 (215) 625-0300 The 6th Street entrance Philadelphia Public Ledger Scheduled to open at the This atrium is a dazzling is a small lobby with a newspaper, which had southwest corner of 6th and triumph, soaring eight floors gorgeous renaissance ceiling inaugurated the era of mass- see places, page 19 Photography: Bari (right) (left);Photography: Roberts Shor David OH_HopkinsonHouse_Apr08 4/2/08 10:12 AM Page 1

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Allow been fully vanquished, you come to the preformed windows, but bring your your visitor to enthuse can toss in the fact that the concrete block walls of the guest’s attention to the about the cornice on some building is in the tradition Hopkinson House hallways. “fenestration.” Be sure to town house or other and of the Bauhaus School Here you might resort to point out the “cornice” (the then quietly say: “I’m afraid established in Germany “amusing and utilitarian.” trim bit where the wall that’s a 20th century repro.” before WW2 and expresses Or if all else fails: “an meets the roof ). Also, please Since only a professional the belief that “less is more“ homage to the brutalism of remember that the glass could tell the difference, it (Mies van der Rohe) and 20th century Philadelphia over the door is a “fanlight,” doesn’t matter if this is true that a home is “a machine for architect Louis Kahn.” the front of the building is or not. Your discernment living” (Le Corbusier). The Good luck and don’t the “façade,” and any brick will now be unquestioned architect of this building forget the wise words of our that looks a bit wonky can and you can launch into your has “enlivened the facade” own Benjamin Franklin: be advertised as “Flemish dissertation on 20th_century through the irregular “Guests and Fish begin to bond.” Major points go to architecture. placement of the balconies smell after three days.” ■ him who knows the age of the building. This is absurdly easy and requires nothing more than counting the number of window panes which you will naturally refer to as “lights.” Six-over-six is Colonial, multiple panes on the top sash and one on the bottom is Victorian and one pane top and one bottom is 20th century. When the amount of glass on a building begins to exceed the amount of solid wall, you are in the post-WW2 era and can say “modern.” The restoration of With PNC, every ATM can be your ATM. the neighborhood in the We’re dedicated to helping you on your 1960s and beyond included financial journey. Which is why we offer the introduction of many free ATMs available worldwide. With new town houses and other most PNC checking accounts you won’t structures. Most advertise be charged an ATM fee, no matter their 20th century roots where life takes you. With PNC, your with lots of glass—or blank journey will be even more rewarding. walls where there should pnc.com/leadingtheway be glass; but scattered here Aksana Kharko,Branch Manager and there are reproduction Hopkinson House Branch Colonial townhouses that look the part until you walk through the front door and ©2008 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. All rights reserved. PNC Bank Member FDIC. 22 • FALL 2010 • ON THE HOUSE Welcome to Restaurant Row East restaurants, from page 11 need of a new ribbon. Brunch, a few years back), but has lunch, traditional sandwiches where you get a crab stick, lunch, and dinner, plus a nifty nonetheless become a popular abound, as do smoked fish cucumber, avocado with spicy little take-out coffee nook, eatery for businesspeople and platters and salads. But The sauce, plus white fish tempura open in the mornings. tourists, thanks to reliable New School portion of the with eel sauce. Jones. 700 Chestnut food at reasonable prices. Plate menu globalizes matters a bit Lunch specials average Street. This one you know, for glass windows reveal standard- with such selections as a bagel $10.50 and include a at least ten years now. Molded order booths behind Venetian with lox and sweetened wasabi bewildering variety of sushi chairs, space-age chandeliers, blinds. Tables hunker down on cream cheese. with miso soup or salad. For and buff-brick walls suggest the sidewalk in fine weather. Delicatessen is open every dinner, dine on Unaju (broiled 1950s retro, as maybe does Offerings include all the day, starting with breakfast— eel), Chirashi (a variety of raw the no-reservations policy at red-sauced pastas your Nonna or brunch on week ends— fish on sushi rice), or share a what has long been a popular Sofia used to make, along though dinner, from 4:00 to lavish sushi/sashimi spread mid-day eatery. Meatloaf and with the calamari, scampi, etc., 8:00 p.m., is available only with your significant other for Thanksgiving turkey dinner that you can’t fish out of the Wednesday through Saturday. $48.50. There’s more flair here every day are among the Delaware. The varied pizzas— You can eat in or take out, than you expect for a joint stars, for not a lot of money. thick-crusted, served on a naturally, while you reminisce where you can eat in or take Naugahyde booths are retro, tripod at table—are a tasty about the old neighborhood. out—and BYOB. Half a block too, along with what’s playing choice. And there’s a three- Aqua. Next door at from our own Square, you may on the nickelodeon. Lunch— course chef ’s special dinner 705 is this Malaysian/Thai forget you’re not in Ginza. mac and cheese, Cobb salad, for $30 that changes every day. restaurant that wandered The Cooperage. Here’s to our neighborhood from a relative newcomer inside Chinatown several years ago. the Curtis Building next You can satisfy your hunger Open for lunch and dinner to the 7th Street entrance. every day but Sunday, the Since last spring, you’ve without breaking the bank— southeast Asian fare is an seen their outdoor booths interesting blend of Chinese, on the 7th Street sidewalk unless you succumb to Indian, and other regional in good weather. This is a cuisines. Although some of the wine and whisky bar with a sampling too many of the dishes will be familiar to the surprisingly interesting menu aficionado of Cantonese and of sandwiches—po’boys and offerings from the wine list. Szechuan cooking, you can pulled pork are yummy—as also order an Indian pancake well as other casual fare with appetizer, Roti Telur, filled a Cajun twist, such as gumbo and much more—is served La Scala’s also offers space for with egg, onion, and served ya-ya and chipotle-bourbon Monday through Friday. parties, events, and meetings. with potato curry. Follow barbecued boneless wings. Or Dinner every day. Home Weekday happy hours lure the that with a green papaya for dinner, how about an anche delivery, reasonable prices, after-work crowd. salad (with shrimp, carrots, rubbed flank steak ($18)? conversation just possible Delicatessen. Head a and ground peanuts), then The bar’s the main above the chatter. Oh, few steps west and you’ll find dig into Kari Ayam (chicken event, perhaps on its way to and French lessons in the this Jewish variant on comfort cooked with lemon grass and becoming a singles’ spa, but restrooms, who knows why? food at 703 Chestnut. You chili paste, then simmered in the table service is attentive, This could be for your cousin maybe haven’t dropped in for coconut curry). Prices range friendly, and professional. Minnie if she pines for the a pastrami on rye since the from $6.50 to 20.95. You can satisfy your hunger good old times of her youth. new owner took over what Aqua has a little water without breaking the La Scala’s. Also at used to be Kibitz in the City. feature in the back that bank—unless you succumb 7th and Chestnut Streets, The minimalist new name distinguishes it from the to sampling too many of the catecorner to Jones. This is should assure you that it’s still usual Chinatown restaurant. offerings from the wine list. Jones’ Italian equivalent for a classic, with such old dinner Tables and chairs are standard Take a flashlight to read the comfort food, though with stand-bys as chicken pot pie chrome-and-plastic. It can get menu, which appears to have the nostalgia missing. It has ($15) and brisket ($16). Or noisy on a busy weeknight. been banged out on an old all the ambience of a fast-food try the Chanukah salmon Chifa. Jose Garces’ Remington typewriter badly in joint (which this space was with a latke crust ($17). For rich and clubby eatery ON THE HOUSE • FALL 2010 • 23

(comidas Latinas with a that long housed Jack Kellmer theatrical you just might spot tempura vegetables is $37. dash of Chinese) is next, Jewelers was still glorious. But the ghost of a Follies chorus You’ll find sushi and at 707 Chestnut, and a with the coming of Union line after that second or third sashimi appetizers for less than smart destination for the Trust, the glamour of the martini. $10, and a raw bar serving a venturesome diner. There neighboring banking hall got Morimoto. This spot at sharable combination for from are sidewalk tables in good turned up several dazzling 723 Chestnut may offer the $55 to $75. Maybe you should weather, a central bar inside notches. You can now dine most rarified culinary treats of save the chef ’s choice, anyway, along with Chinese blue-and- beneath a gilded, coffered all the elegant restaurants in for when that Japanese partner white porcelain décor and ceiling in a space that Ziegfeld our quarter. Once inside the in your latest joint venture votive candles clinging to the would have died for, or take glowing chartreuse doors that visits on his expense account. walls. The lattice-partitioned it all in from the bejeweled pierce the concave exterior, you You can get lunch Monday booths hint of an opium den. mezzanine while swilling your find yourself in a space where through Friday, dinner every The menu is divided into martini and slurping oysters soft lights infuse the very tables night. Attire is, in keeping cold and hot small plates ($6 on the half-shell. Appetizers where you dine. Chef/owner with the atmosphere, “upscale to $45). The staff suggests include crispy calamari ($11), Masaharu Morimoto learned casual.” three per person, all meant for Kobe short ribs ($15), or the his craft from Japan’s master Had enough high-toned sharing, plus a list of several none-too-kosher scallops chefs before he ventured to glamour? Across Chestnut larger specialties, also to share wrapped in bacon ($16). New York, then Philadelphia, Street are two down-home and capable of being tweaked Steaks range from the 6-ounce where the haute cuisine of eateries (depending on where to suit the diner ($22-$45). A filet mignon ($28) to the the West now influences his you call home) that can bring chef ’s tasting menu is priced shiitake-rubbed Kobe strip offerings. The Zensasi (lunch) you and your wallet back to at $45, $55, or $65, and may ($65). One of the shellfish menu features such jewels as earth. At 714, El Azteca offers be accompanied by a “wine towers might suit your fancy: toro tartare served with caviar essentially Tex-Mex fare in a flight”—so you can soar, or slightly seedy room that might flee?—from $20 to $35 per have come from the border at person. Almost anything you You know the drill: tamales, El Paso. You know the drill: order will be distinctive enough tamales, tacos, enchiladas, to remind you why the owner/ tacos, enchiladas, chiles, chiles, and refried beans, done chef has become one of the up in combinations that are nation’s hottest culinary stars. and refried beans, done up sure to fill your belly—if not The medium-sized wine give you heartburn—all at list starts at ca. $30. Pan bono in combinations that are bargain prices. Almost next is pro bono; small homemade door, at 704, the stuck-in-time rolls served with a peppery/ sure to fill your belly. Germano-Irish-Italianish sweet spread. Service is so Las Vegas Tavern that for competently crisp it may eons displayed dill pickles in be a little daunting to those $50 brings you one made of and fresh wasabi ($26), or the window has undergone a unfamiliar with the Garces different varieties of oysters, or thinly sliced carpaccio where makeover, bringing it a little treatment. If you’re used to his you can go to the top with the you choose from whitefish nearer in appearance to its tapas-inspired menus, you may Ultimate Tower, presumably ($16), octopus ($18) or Kobe more trendy neighbors. At know how to order. Still, twelve meant for sharing, with its king beef ($25). Dinner (Omakase) least, it looks now as if it might small plates for four diners may crab, lump crab, clams, oysters, delivers a chef ’s choice of a be at home in its namesake city. be a little much unless you’re and shrimp, yours for $125. multi-course tasting menu Expect only tavern fare here, ravenous. Save seventy bucks But you don’t actually from $80 to $120 per person, such as pot stickers, buffalo to start and order ten. Add on have to break the bank here. or à la carte entrees that let bites, burgers, soups and salads, from there as your tummy and Lunches offer salads starting you choose from Duck Duck to be washed down with a cold pocketbook allow. at $11, burgers from $12, and Duck (Madras roasted duck pint or two. Union Trust Steakhouse. a Liberty Cheesesteak for breast confit, risotto, duck egg, Szechuan China Royal. 717 Chestnut Street. What $20 that gives you prime rib- Mandarin oolong reduction) 727 Walnut. They’ve been our started out as a fantastic and eye, caramelized onions, and for $32, or Sugi-ita salmon neighborly eat-in-take-out- opulent Victorian bank many parmesan whiz—not exactly (Japanese cedar-wrapped or-deliver Chinese emporium moons ago lost an entire your lunch truck greaser. Or organic salmon in a maple forever. Chopsticks optional. wing to a parking lot in mid- you can merely nibble and shiitake broth, with organic egg Now, rest up for an assault 20th century. Even after that sip and mostly feast on your and yamaimo), $26. The dry- on all the fooderies to our dismemberment, the space surroundings. The place is so aged New York strip steak with south! ■ Sometimes It Is Best To Have Our Clients Speak For Us: “It was a pleasure for Naomi and me to work with you in selling our Hopkinson House condo unit at a good price in a very short time. Your professionalism, attentiveness, and clear communication made this an easy and productive process!” Avi Decter

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In version of the diet for the past his patients’ use of prescription and starch causes prolonged their experiments starch did 35 years. drugs, a very desirable overproduction of insulin, not. They knew that table Cardiologist Robert outcome. which leads to a condition sugar (sucrose) is digested to Atkins MD points out in his A hundred years ago known as insulin resistance. an equal mixture of glucose book, Dr. Atkins’ diet revolution the average American ate less The cells normally controlled and fructose and that starch (1972), that the rapid initial than one ounce of table sugar by insulin cease to respond to is digested to glucose alone weight loss of the low- per day. Since then, sugar has insulin. Insulin and glucose but evidently they did not carbohydrate diet is due mainly become cheap and plentiful. then accumulate in the blood. notice the connection between to the shedding of stress fluid. Our consumption of sugar This is type 2 diabetes. In fructose and the cardiovascular This causes a desirable drop has increased enormously, to contrast with a type 1 diabetic, changes. Other scientists have in blood pressure. Dr. Atkins an average of nearly a third of whose pancreas cannot make subsequently shown that pure went further than the 60- a pound per person per day. insulin, type 2 diabetics fructose does induce those gram diet to recommend, at If a third of a pound is the produce large amounts of changes. least initially, a diet of zero average, it follows that half of insulin but it fails to control When fructose is carbohydrate. When you eat the population eats more and their blood glucose. The absorbed from the intestine no sugar or starch you obtain many people eat much more condition is usually treated it is recognized as foreign energy by burning body fat. sugar than that. The resulting by the injection of even more and removed by that great After you have reached your obesity is all around us. If insulin or by drugs that make defending organ, the liver. desired weight Dr. Atkins you glance into the shopping the cells more responsive to the After a large intake of fructose recommends a maintenance carts of obese people you will insulin already in circulation. the liver goes into emergency diet similar to the 60 gram diet. see mostly candy and sweet, These drugs tend to produce mode. It converts the fructose In his cardiology practice starchy foods. worrisome side effects. to triglycerides, binds them to Dr. Atkins found that his diet When people eat sugary It would seem that protein, and expels them into not only reduced the weight or starchy foods their systems the best treatment for type the blood as very-low-density and blood pressure of his respond by producing insulin. 2 diabetes would be to lipoprotein (VLDL, “very bad patients, and reversed their The insulin lowers the remove the cause, to stop the cholesterol.”) All the other type II diabetes if they suffered concentration of blood glucose consumption of sugar and early changes of cardiovascular starch, allowing the blood disease are also observed, glucose concentration to supporting the view that the return to normal and the cells fructose part of the table-sugar to regain their sensitivity to molecule is responsible for its insulin. According to surgeon cardiovascular toxicity. William Harvey it was well The absorption of known to English physicians in fructose has little effect on the 1860s that a carbohydrate- blood glucose concentration. free diet of meat and dairy As a result, fructose has a products caused sugar to very low glycemic index (GI). disappear from the urine of Before the toxicity of fructose Get coverage that’s right for you. diabetics. In his practice, Dr. was discovered, high-fructose Save up to $500* when you do. Atkins confirmed that a low- corn syrup (HFCS), a 55:45 carbohydrate diet reversed mixture of fructose and Give me a call or stop in to get a quote. type II diabetes. glucose, was shown to have a lower GI than table sugar, GannonGannon Coyne Coyne and Associates,& Associates, Inc. Inc, Deanna Gannon Coyne A hidden hazard in table apparently making HFCS a 213-215 [email protected] Avenue, Narberth PA 19072 TEL: 610-660-5151213 Haverford [email protected] Avenue sugar good substitute for table sugar. 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Whether During this time, VLDL and the associated your physician may both be they eat fructose as such, in Professor Yudkin and Dr. cardiovascular changes were astonished by your progress. certain fruits for example, Atkins were ridiculed and induced by the eating of If you are being treated for or whether it is formed by reviled but the soundness carbohydrates but eating fat diabetes you must first consult the digestion of table sugar, of their actual experiments had no such effects. Gofman’s your physician. The drug you these people cannot absorb and observations has never work evidently was unknown are taking, whether insulin or fructose from the intestine. been seriously questioned. to Professor Yudkin and Dr. something else, is intended to It remains in the intestine In his book, Taubes suggests Atkins but its rediscovery has reduce your blood glucose. The where it attracts water by that the campaign against fat nicely validated their work. low-carb diet does the same osmosis, leading to bloating, may have had an emotional (Dr. Gofman had a varied thing, and the combined effect cramping, and diarrhea, but origin—it may have been part career. During World War II of diet and drug may take your people who cannot absorb of a reaction to the excesses of he developed the technique blood glucose dangerously fructose obviously are spared the 1960s. Taubes points out, for separating plutonium that low. Your physician should its cardiovascular effects. however, that the whole issue was later used to make the monitor you closely and may had been resolved earlier, in the hydrogen bomb.) reduce your drug dose or even Progress interrupted eliminate the drug. That is the In his thoroughly best outcome always. researched book, Good In most countries our Here are four effects of Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, table sugar that are treated Carbs and the Controversial ancestors perforce lived with a drug: Science of Diet and Health 1. The accumulation of stress (Anchor Books, 2008), Gary on a diet that was low fluid causing increased blood Taubes, the accomplished pressure. Diuretics are given. science writer, reviews in carbohydrates, 2. Type 2 diabetes. Insulin and everything that has been done other drugs that decrease and written on diet, weight, especially sugar. blood glucose are prescribed. and health in recent centuries. 3. Lipoprotein imbalance and Among other things, Taubes arterial plaque. Statins are discusses the efforts of many 1950s, by a brilliant physician prescribed. people over the past 40 years and physical chemist, Dr. John Would you like to try the 4. Sticky blood platelets leading to show that the eating of Gofman. low-carb diet? to coronary thrombosis and fat causes the metabolic Lipid (fat) molecules If you eat like a pig and to stroke from blood clots in syndrome. This has involved are enabled to float freely in are built like a broomstick you the brain. Aspirin is taken to politicians of all parties, and the blood by their bonding don’t need this diet. Otherwise, inactivate the blood platelets. politicized physicians and to protein molecules. Using welcome to the club! Go to a These are all powerful drugs scientists, who have spent special techniques Dr. Gofman good bookstore and buy a carb- with significant side effects. hundreds of millions of showed that these lipoproteins counter book. If your book Surely it is better to remove dollars on trials involving tens can be divided into three gives total carbs, fiber, and net the cause, to stop eating of thousands of volunteers and fractions according to their carbs, use the numbers in the sugar. have proved nothing beyond density–high-, low-, and net-carbs column. You will In most countries our the fact that very-low-fat very-low-density lipoproteins have fun finding interesting ancestors perforce lived diets tend to be lethal. Those (HDL, LDL, and VLDL.) ways to put together 60 grams on a diet that was low in responsible for the trials were He found some cholesterol in every day. After a while it will carbohydrates, especially frustrated and mystified by the all three fractions but most become second nature and you sugar. Given the biochemistry fact that people died despite of it was in the LDL. He also will use the book less. they bequeathed us, the the successful reduction of found that the total amount It is a good idea to low-carb diet is the correctly their blood cholesterol. (“... of cholesterol in the blood involve your physician in your balanced diet for our needs, cure the disease and kill the was unrelated to the presence experiment. Before you start, far better than a diet that has patient. Francis Bacon, 1625.) of cardiovascular disease. Dr. he or she should weigh you to be balanced with powerful These vast trials were well Gofman showed that VLDL and take your blood pressure, drugs. ■