Editorial: on the What’s inside by Nelly Childress Historic Places? See Lynn It occurred to me that it Miller’s article. Want to ouse may be useful if we preface know more about your H The Newsletter of each issue of On the House neighbors? A profile of with a short outline of what a young, interesting and Hopkinson House • Summer 2010 is being published. exceptional neighbor is This summer’s issue authored by Enny Cramer. Roberts entitled “In Praise Recently, even the strongest contains recommendations For those curious about of fat: A modern myth fat-limiting advocates have for peaceful coexistence in a the Philadelphia political unravels.” had to admit that not all fats multi-family building such apparatus, the organizational Editor’s Note: It is a fact are alike, and proponents of as the dos and don’ts on the structure of the major that for the past 30 years, two low-carbohydrate diets have balconies; many reminders; political parties and how it generations of physicians have recognized the health benefits and interesting news items works, read the article by advocated low-fat diets that of eating certain foods that are such as how to save money Larry Meehan. Another first were fully supported by the relatively light carbohydrates. when purchasing energy- in Philadelphia is CHAD American Heart Association, To learn more you may efficient appliances, and around the corner from the American Medical consult http://heartdisease. many more. You will find Hopkinson House at Seventh Association and the U.S. about.com/cs/riskfactor/a/ them in the Message from and Samson Streets. Susan Department of Agriculture; lofatlocarbs and http:// Management. Regarding Tomita’s article discusses while during that time Atkins www.huffingtonpost.com/ our front yard, the SHCA’s the first charter high school and his followers advocated Andrew-weil.../healthy- Washington Square Affair for architecture and design in low-carbohydrate diets. eating_b_629422.html. ■ was a great success; several the nation. Summer means Hopkinson House residents vacations. How about Jordan The Newsletter Committee congratulates Jason Norris, Sidney were on the Committee and Damascus, Syria? See Jacoby, Lisette Tarragano and Rosemarie (Roe) Durkin on their chaired by Andrea Layden. Faith Abbey’s comments on election to the 2010–11 Council. Thanks also go to Joanne Wallace who was appointed by Council to complete Frances Read the report by Byron her trip. To all those who Rhodes-Larkin’s term. Fink. Why has Hopkinson are interested in nutrition, House been listed on the healthy diets and weight-loss, We also express our gratitude to David Roberts who held office on Philadelphia Register of read the article by David Council for five years and to Byron Fink who served several terms. Hopkinson House’s third “H”: historic by Lynn Miller we had long been part of If you own a unit or the Society Hill Historic units at Hopkinson House, District, and wondered if this you likely received a letter last created some new category or spring from the Philadelphia obligation. Historical Commission. The To take the second matter letter was meant to remind first, it did not. Hopkinson you that our building is listed House is an integral part of on the Philadelphia Register the Society Hill Historic of Historic Places. That may District, which was added to have been more a surprise than the National List of Historic a reminder for owners who Places back in 1971. The supposed historic designations city’s Historical Commission went to more antique buildings followed suit in 2000. Our than ours. Others may have residence is included in both Our home in late May 2010, as seen from Washington Square. been puzzled if they thought see historic, page 17 Photography: David Roberts. David Photography: 2 • SUMMER 2010 • ON THE HOUSE on the In the News ouse HEditorial Committee Nelly M. Childress A woman of firsts Enny Cramer Byron Fink For the past few years ago. Their honeymoon was Lynn Miller David S. Roberts Stavropoula Tjoumakaris— in Greece, on the islands of Ralph Rodriguez Stav, as she prefers to be Santorini and Sifnos. Dan Rothermel Susan Tomita called—has been living in Stav was born and raised the Hopkinson House with in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her Graphic Design Desperate Hours Productions her husband Sidney Jacoby, father is chief radiologist in [email protected] a hand surgeon at Thomas a hospital in N.W.Greece. Advertising Jefferson University (TJU), Her mother, who is from Nancy Snyder and one of our newly elected Constantinople (Istanbul), (215) 627-1731 Council members. The past is known for her skills in Council Liaison by Enny Cramer year they moved to my floor, Byzantine cuisine. Her only Jason Norris No, this is not an article the 6th. They needed a larger sister is a University Professor Photography about an exotic dish, served apartment to have space for of Greek and Latin, and the David Roberts in one of Philadelphia’s new their new baby, and Stav’s mother of three children. So, Issue Contributors restaurants. Neither does mother. Mother is temporarily intelligence clearly runs in the Faith Abbey Nelly Childress it deal with a rare tropical staying with the young family family! Enny Cramer disease. On the contrary, it is to help take care of the baby, At the age of seventeen Byron Fink Judi Forte the name of one of the most Jon Avedon, now eight months Stav graduated from a Greek Larry Meehan delightful, interesting and old. high school and moved by Lynn Miller David Roberts charming women I ever met. The couple met in herself to the U.S.A. to continue Eric Sellin Intelligent beyond belief, and a Medical School at TJU and her education at an American Susan Tomita neighbor to bat! were married three years see IN THE NEWS, page 15 Photography: David Roberts. David Photography: ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2010 • 3 Message from Management Reminders in the face of “early” summer by Judi Forte your balcony and to use your change. The charge to reserve Office. Summer arrived earlier inside voices so as not to the freight elevator is $150 Trucks over 12 feet in than anticipated, with disturb your neighbors’ rest. and it is non-refundable. height will not be permitted late May and early June The use of barbecue Your move date cannot be into the garage. Large moving temperatures well into the grills is prohibited in high confirmed until this fee is trucks have to park on Sixth 90s. Most of us love the rise buildings by order paid. We do not accept cash. Street and the movers will summer weather and the of the Philadelphia Fire Payment is by check or have to transport furniture opportunity to enjoy the Department. money order only. and belongings up the ramp world outside. But, when you Moves in and out of When you are moving, to the truck. live in a multi family building the building are permitted the elevator will be at your Take your bike from the such as Hopkinson House, Monday through Saturday. disposal to transport your bike room before leaving. summer brings its own set of No moves are permitted furniture and belongings. Unclaimed bikes are disposed issues, which are not unique on Sundays and religious Our mission is to get the of periodically. to Hopkinson House. One and legal holidays. Moves move finished as quickly Make arrangements with of the most serious issues may start at 10:00 a.m. as possible. However, the Comcast to return your cable is the continued practice of and must be completed by freight elevator is also used modem, digital boxes and tossing cigarette butts from 4:00 p.m. After 4:00 p.m., to transport contractors, remotes. the balconies. These butts PECO is offering ways become airborne and can to save money with PECO land anywhere. There have Smart Home Rebates. PECO been reports of burned patio Balcony umbrellas must be is offering rebates up to furniture and mulch fires. A $100 toward the purchase fire is a high price to pay for closed when they are not of certain appliances. Since not extinguishing your butts last summer, retail stores and in a covered ashtray. in use and taken down contractor purchases have Remember that all been eligible. Rebate forms balcony umbrellas must be when there is the danger are available online at http:// closed when they are not in www.peco.com/SmartIdeas. use and taken down when of a storm or high winds. If you participate, you there is the danger of a storm should receive your rebate or high winds. All loose or check about six weeks after removable objects must be there is limited staff in the deliveries and bring the trash PECO receives your form. removed from the balconies building and the freight down from 31 trash rooms. It is retroactive, so if you during periods of high elevator operator has gone This is likely to occur during bought your appliance winds. And please remember home for the day. Non- your move, but your move anytime after July 1, 2009, that bird feeders are not employees of the building are will not be delayed because we understand that you can permitted on the balconies. not permitted to operate the of other building activities. still get a rebate as long as In the warm weather, freight elevator. Some residents do not you have the original store residents like to spend more The summer months begin to pack their boxes receipt. 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ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2010 • 5 In praise of fat: A modern myth unravels by David Roberts the expensive grain required to their contemporaries who had studies have shown that Many decades ago, when produce fat beef when people died before reaching 80. The eating fat and cholesterol is I was a child, most people have been frightened into study did, however, cast serious harmless. In the early days believed that meat, eggs, and avoiding it? The beef producers doubt on the idea that fried of concern about cholesterol, dairy products were highly happily joined the campaign food and fat are bad for you. scientists in San Francisco nutritious – health foods. We for lean meat. It cost them less. During the decades that examined the effects of eating lived on a farm that produced The pork producers followed followed publication of the eggs, a relatively rich source fruit and vegetables for sale. their lead. More than a decade Report, numerous clinical see FAT, page 19 We also had hens, which gave has passed since I could buy us eggs and chicken meat, and pork chops fat enough to sizzle Ah summer! A time to be lazy but patriotic—to enjoy we had cows, usually two. After on the grill. I occasionally fireworks and parades, free concerts, all that the city our father died my mother find a choice beef steak but offers our historic area around the 4th of July. milked the cows. I passed never a prime one. There are most of the milk through the restaurants that serve prime Although Independence Day has come and gone, a poem cream separator, which yielded beef, at a high price, obtained by one of our neighbors that appeared in the July 2010 cream to eat or to make into from farms that raise prime issue of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture is butter. My mother often let me beef at a high cost. The rise reprinted below with the author’s permission: make the butter by beating the in the price of corn due to the cream with wooden paddles. demands of the corn-ethanol The fat-free milk from the industry has not helped. INDEPENDENCE DAY separator was considered unfit In 1964 I was doing By Eric Sellin for human consumption and so research at the Lister Institute we gave it to the pigs to drink. of Preventive Medicine in Freedom is a light for which I don’t remember whether the London, when an important Many men have died in darkness. pigs liked it. document appeared in the Nowadays, people Institute’s library. It was the --Lines engraved on a monument deliberately buy fat-free milk, 1964 Report of the Surgeon In Washington Square, Philadelphia cheese, and yogurt, and remove General of the United States, the fat-rich skin from chicken the one that confirmed the Seated on a bench in the square, feeding crumbs to before they cook it. Whatever role of smoking as a cause the birds, happened? The short answer: of lung cancer, heart disease, The poet looks up at the green canopy of leaves a lot of uncritical, simplistic and other maladies. This With its random patches of sky and searches for thinking. “Eating fat makes information was already well words you fat.” “Eating cholesterol known but the Report made With which to forge lines in which one might gives you high cholesterol.” it official for purposes of US believe. Pathologists detected government policy. What cholesterol in arterial plaque, caught my attention, however, But he senses, around him, too many distractions; and it was assumed that the was another article in the same The tweeting of the birds and cries of children at cholesterol caused the plaque document that described a play, and that eating cholesterol was study of the habits of men who And--on another plane--death’s persistent to blame. No valid evidence had successfully passed the age abstraction was produced to support any of 80 – octogenarians. One of That haunts this city square, by night and by day: of this but the idea was taken their most common habits was up by journalists and dietitians, eating at least 14 fried meals a The muffled moans of witnesses of olden days and it was accepted by busy week. Who lie in their unmarked graves, here in this physicians who didn’t have This association of square, time to question it. fried food and longevity does Where a monument and its graceful flame aver As a result, the egg and not prove that fried food is Something vaster than a poet’s hollow praise dairy industries were seriously good for you. The study was set back, and the production an anecdotal one and not of prime beef became controlled, and there was no For those who died in darkness that we might know uneconomical. Why buy all information on the habits of Freedom’s light…or at least its afterglow. For ad production and design questions, please contact Adam at Desperate Hours Productions: (215) 813-9766 or [email protected]. ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2010 • 7 It’s education by design at CHAD by Susan Tomita Member, quoted on the is central to the curriculum, A Google search of Philadelphia is known CHAD website, http:// and used as the instrument CHAD brings up about by many as the “City of www.chadphila.org to help students develop: 14,300 hits. Firsts.” Our neighborhood 1) creative problem-solving Many articles about has been home to many of A multi-disciplinary skills, 2) visual and spatial CHAD also mention the country’s “firsts” since team of contractors, lawyers, literacy and competencies, DASH, the elite Design and colonial days—the first and planners worked with the and 3) an appreciation for Architecture Senior High successful lending library, Philadelphia AIA member and understanding of the School in Miami established first scientific institution, architects to turn the concept physical environment and in 1990. U.S. News and World first hospital, among others.* of CHAD into an actual its impact on our quality Reports ranked DASH #15 Another “first” opened in our school for 400 students. The of life.” CHAD has high of the top 100 high schools neighborhood more recently, at Seventh and Sansom Streets: the first charter high school for architecture and design in the nation, in 1999. The Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) is one of the forerunners of a movement to use the design process for creative and analytic thinking in a college- prep curriculum. CHAD was founded by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects as its Legacy 2000 Project to create an independent, non-profit charter school.

We don’t want all our students to become architects. More and The Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD) at the corner of 7th and Sansom streets. more studies are showing the measurable, positive board of trustees consists expectations of its students for 2009; CHAD did not impact of design on of architects, designers, in academic endeavors and make the cut. (Interestingly, people’s social, physical community leaders, parents, conduct, as set forth in its a Google search of DASH and mental health. We’d and educators. CHAD’s student/parent handbook. turns up only 13,500 hits.) like them to leave CHAD teachers are practicing CHAD’s facilities The two schools share a with an appreciation for architects, designers, include computer labs, design similar philosophy and how design can improve and artists, as well as studios, academic classrooms, approach. Unlike CHAD, their lives and the lives of professional educators in a lunchroom, and exhibit however, DASH, is a public others.—Tony Bracali, English, Spanish, history, spaces. The city itself also magnet school with a highly AIA, CHAD Board math, physics, and the other is a classroom. Integral to selective admission process. subjects of its standard core the curriculum are field As a Pennsylvania charter * These “firsts” were curriculum. trips, behind-the-scenes school, CHAD must have The Library Company of Today, CHAD has more visits, and mentorships with open admissions. Philadelphia (1731), the than 500 students in grades professionals in the design Charter schools are a American Philosophical Society 9 through 12. The average and construction fields, hot topic of conversation, (1743), and Pennsylvania class size is 25. As explained as well as broad parental articles, and studies in Hospital (1751). on CHAD’s website, “Design involvement. see SCHOOL, page 21 Photography: David Roberts David Photography:

ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2010 • 9 Questions and responses in Jordan, Damascus by Faith Abbey reminds me that written Anyone who has been history, perhaps especially a part of a tour group knows ancient history, has a that you are an observer, not a purposeful agenda. And to have participant in a country’s life the period referred to as the and culture, so these are a few Iron Age gives weight to the of my responses to what I saw time line of these events. Our on my recent trip to Jordan and tour director’s love of puns is the city of Damascus. catching. Those Romans really Petra is the focal point for knew how to build a city. Of all of us on the trip and it lives course, they borrowed from the up to expectations and more. Greeks, but their city planning The center of the Nabatean is rivaled only by Disney Kingdom which extended from World. With better taste. at least Damascus to the Sinai, Their understanding of space, it was the Mecca for its citizens. proportion, and grandeur are Today it is a monument to all evident at Jerash, the largest the amazing combination of Roman antiquity site outside of nature and man, creating great Italy. Do you think they knew beauty, a lasting monument to how dramatic those columns a temporal power. Some lesson would look against a bright there? Just as the crusaders’ blue sky 2000 years later? castles were another attempt We pass the largest to insure their power and Palestinian refugee camp in permanence, so heavily fortified Jordan on the outskirts of on their hills, they too were Amman. No longer does overcome by time and events. it have tents, but concrete While Petra was the houses, electricity, running ceremonial center, Little Petra water, paved streets, it is very was the commercial center permanent looking. When I for the caravans to stay and asked so innocently if their trade goods and news. Just reason for remaining in the Clockwise from top left: Remains of the Roman Temple of Heracles in as the royals had elaborate camp was primarily economic, Jordan; a woman in the streets of Damascus; desert transportation. tombs at Petra, the wealthy I was told “only for some. They had separate dining rooms and are waiting to go home.” Two the feminist movement perhaps Much of the history of accommodations at Little Petra. or three generations later. It I can understand a little better Jordan is told or confirmed The Goldman-Sachs executives gives a human face to a political than the younger members of in the Biblical writings. But of their day? conundrum. our group how easily customs to hear it told from the point We were told the “true” I am surprised to see what are continued. I understand, of view of the Ammonites, Bedouins were in the south seems like 99% of the women that is, until I see 10- and 11- Moabites and Edomites see middle east, page 23 wearing head scarves and 89% year old little girls wearing the the full length, long sleeved dark scarves and the implication of it coat on the streets of Amman. makes me angry. SOCIETY HILL KITCHENS This is more than I have seen in As we make our way south INNOVATION & VALUE any Muslim city I have visited to Petra, we stop at Mt. Nebo COMPLETED PROJECTS previously. The men are dressed with the overview of the Jordan SOCIETY HILL TOWERS DORCHESTER RITTENHOUSE SAVOY in casual western dress. It seems Valley. It’s too hazy to really see INDEPENDENCE PL. HOPKINSON HOUSE PHILADELPHIAN so unfair; why do the women the modern city of Jerusalem accept this male view of their and one wonders if Moses had MAKING YOUR NEIGHBORS ENVIOUS! place? And yet, as a member some second thoughts about Are YOU Ready? of the generation that was first leaving Egypt. Is that when he 65 NORTH 2ND STREET PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 challenged and then changed by broke the tablets? 215-238-9414 Photography: Faith Abbey Faith Photography: OUTSTANDING EXCEPTIONAL

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When he is a good thing, maybe giving that property owners within Stonorov. designed Hopkinson House the district the sort of snob the historic district may not When Mayors Joseph with its distinctive stair-steps appeal that’s equivalent to make significant alterations Clark and Richardson of balconies, Stonorov created seeing your family’s name in to the exterior of their Dilworth, with Philadelphia’s an iconic building visible from both the Social Register and property without approval. powerful urban planner, various entry points to center Burke’s Peerage. Residents At Hopkinson House, that Edmund N. Bacon, launched city, and one whose open of Hopkinson House may presumably means that the resurrection of our ground-floor entrance made conclude that this double apartment owners should neighborhood in the 1950s, it a welcoming presence on listing adds to the desirability not expect to enclose their the idea was to restore and add the square. He also provided of owning a piece of our balconies or paint the exterior to the housing stock, much comfortable living spaces building. Certainly, it is a kind walls outside their bedrooms of it dating from the late 18th with an abundance of closets, of guarantee that the residence red; nor will they likely get century, to attract home buyers public areas adorned with we cherish will be maintained away with flashing neon signs back to a district that had sculptures and a garden, as well in its cherished state for as long hanging from balcony railings. become virtually a slum. Over as a solarium and swimming as our city endures. But, of course, such the previous century, affluent pool with dazzling views atop You can read the restrictions have been in Philadelphians had migrated the building. Shortly after its ordinance enumerating the place since we became a powers of the Historical condominium, and are spelled Commission in section 14- out in our association rules. Society Hill has had many 2007(5) of the Philadelphia So, relax; practically speaking, Code. Among the ordinance’s these historic designations “periods of significance” over criteria for an historic don’t further restrict what unit listing, numbers 1, 3, and 5 owners may do. The interior more than three centuries. are particularly relevant to space is what you own, and Hopkinson House. For more that is still your castle. It on the work of the Historical is the responsibility of our from this neighborhood to completion in 1963, all of its Commission, visit http://www. council and management to Rittenhouse Square, Chestnut 536 apartments were filled phila.gov/historical, or visit the ensure that the appearance Hill, and the Main Line. It was (some residents had moved Commission’s offices at Room of our building’s exterior is thought that an attractive high- in while work was ongoing, in 576, City Hall, weekdays, 8:30 maintained. rise residential tower—the 1962), thereby proving that a.m. to 5:00 p.m. But why is our first in Center City—would high-rise dwelling could work in The National Register comparative stripling of a add to the population on Philadelphia. As a result, I.M. of Historic Places operates building regarded as historic? the neighborhood’s western Pei’s Society Hill Towers soon entirely independently from the The answer lies in how edge, and help connect it to were added to the eastern end city’s Historical Commission, our history relates to the the commercial and historic of the neighborhood. although a designation by one redevelopment of Society Hill. district to the north. Its It was in this way that encourages the other to follow According to the National location on Washington Society Hill’s redevelopment suit. The National Register is Register, Society Hill has had Square would enhance its flourished, thanks to judicious administered by the National many “periods of significance” appeal. (Dilworth made his modern additions to an Park Service, and was created over more than three centuries. commitment to Society Hill historic quarter. For its listing by act of Congress in 1966. The first was from 1650 personal by building his on both the city and national For Pennsylvania sites, the to1699, when European own residence next to the registers, the neighborhood National Register is overseen settlement here got underway; Athenaeum on the east side of was evaluated as one whose by the Pennsylvania Historical the latest occurred from 1950 Washington Square.) deep historical roots have been and Museum Commission to1974, when our building’s Stonorov was already a well maintained and built upon in Harrisburg. For more story began. From the start, leading architect at the time to create an urban quarter with information, go to http:// Hopkinson House has been he was commissioned to build structures from many periods www.nps.gov or http://www. recognized as a keystone in the Hopkinson House. A friend that deserve to be preserved. nationalregisterofhistoricplaces. redevelopment of Society Hill of Frank Lloyd Wright and an Most think that being com.■ 18 • SUMMER 2010 • ON THE HOUSE Reminders in the face of “early” summer MANAGEMENT, from page 3 Resident Services Desk so converter box, you will need a resident that the smell of not get paid for your old they can schedule the freight one to receive the channels. cigarette smoke is invading one? PECO has a Smart elevator. Two digital boxes will be their unit and they ask that Appliance Recycling In July, Comcast will available per apartment at we install a threshold on the program. They will pick set up a table in the lobby to no cost. If you already have a door of the unit from which up your old refrigerator, meet with the residents and digital converter box, you will the smoke is emanating. recycle it and give you $35. go over the services they have no longer be billed for up to The heating and cooling To get this check, schedule a and upgrades to that service two boxes. High definition systems in this building pickup of your old working that they may want. They boxes for HD reception are operate on outside air. The refrigerator online at http:// will, at that time, explain available for an additional outside air is brought into www.peco.com/SmartIdeas or the digital boxes which are charge. More information the building and either call them at 1-888-573-2672. going to be installed in all will be distributed as it is heated or cooled. It flows When you schedule the of the units in July. If you received. through the building by way pickup, be sure to contact the do not already have a digital Frequently, we hear from of the air handlers in the hallways. The air then goes under the unit doors and exits the building through the vents in each unit. This keeps the air flow in the building balanced. Installing thresholds which will prevent odors from being released into the halls will also block the air flow of the heat and cooling in the building • Authentic Italian Cuisine and cause the heating and • Over 150 Wines by the Glass cooling systems to work less efficiently, so installing • Winner of Wine Spectator’s • Winner of Wine Spectator’s thresholds is not an accepted “Best of” Award of Excellence course of action. Instead, we ask that the smokers in the • “2008 National Wine Hospitality building take responsibility Restaurant of the Year Award” for their habit and use air -- Santé Magazine filtration systems in their units to eliminate the smoke • Private Wine-Cellar Dining before it can get into the hallways. Some buildings in the area have begun to prohibit smoking everywhere in their buildings including inside the units. RIISTORANTE PANORAMA One of the simplest ways at the Penn’’s Viiew Hotell to save energy is to close your drapes in the summer Front & Market Streets,, PHIILADELPHIIA when the sun is coming in Reservatiions:: ((215)) 922--7800 and to open your drapes in the winter to allow the sun to Complimentary Parking during Lunch come in. Every little step that is taken by a resident can be multiplied by 536 units. It can make quite an impact on SEE management, page 21 ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2010 • 19 In praise of fat: A modern myth unravels

FAT, from page 5 liberal consumption of fat. thence into the intestine, where are a structural component of of cholesterol. They divided In sum, there has been the bile helps digest the fat. fat and are obtained by eating volunteers into two groups. a wealth of studies showing Regular, fat-induced discharge fat. Fat, however, also has an One group was fed eggs and that fat not only is not bad for of bile prevents the bile in the indirect nutritional benefit. It the other was not. After a time you but is actually good for gall bladder from becoming carries the fat-soluble vitamins, they switched the treatments you. Let us review the ways fat stagnant and forming gall A, D, E, and K. Fat is required between groups. Each time a contributes to our health: stones. It is, therefore, hardly for the absorption of these four group started eating eggs, their surprising that vegans, who eat vitamins from the intestine. blood cholesterol fell slightly. 1. Mechanical benefits little fat, have a relatively high When eggs were withheld from of eating fat incidence of gall stones. 3. Benefits of frying a group, their cholesterol rose When we eat fat the Along with grilling and slightly. Given what we now stomach empties more slowly. 2. Nutritional benefits roasting, frying is a method know about the liver’s role as This gives a feeling of fullness, of fat of cooking with dry heat. the source of the cholesterol in a satisfaction of appetite, and Fat consists mainly of Dry heat cooks quickly and our blood, those results are not this reduces the amount we triglycerides. Each triglyceride seals in the nutrients, thereby surprising. eat. It also slows the release molecule has a glycerol avoiding the leaching and In recent years I have of sugar and starch into the backbone with three fatty-acid hydrolytic destruction that encountered reports of nine intestine. This, in turn, slows chains attached to it. Some hot water tends to produce. clinical studies conducted the absorption of sugar and of the fatty-acids are omega Steaming shares some of these in the U.S.A. and Japan, thereby limits the release of polyunsaturated fatty-acids, benefits but it does not create comparing very-low-fat diets the delicious flavors and crisp with normal diets for their surfaces that result from the effects on health and longevity. In nine clinical studies scorching effect of dry heat. In every study the death rate Have you eaten potatoes was slightly higher in the group conducted in the U.S.A. and or other vegetables fried or given the very-low-fat diet. roasted in goose fat? (Mamma On the internet I searched for Japan, the death rate was mia!) clinical studies demonstrating A note of warning: Oils ill effects from eating saturated slightly higher in the group high in polyunsaturated fatty fat. All I found were reports acids, e.g., safflower oil and by authors who had searched given the very-low-fat diet. salmon oil, should not be for such studies and failed to used for frying. The very high find any. tempera­ture of the oil converts There have been several insulin, the hormone that mostly omega 3 or 6. Both the polyunsaturated fatty studies examining the effects promotes the conversion of are essential to health, rather acids to the trans form, which of low-carbohydrate diets, blood sugar to body fat. For like vitamins, but most foods appears to be toxic. Olive and usually by comparing them this reason premium ice cream, contain more omega 6 than peanut oils, butter, and the fats with low-calorie diets and which contains much sugar omega 3, usually by a ratio of of animals and birds, are all normal diets. Fat intake was but also a lot of butter fat, has about 6 to 1. In cereal grains low in polyun­saturated fatty- restricted for the low-calorie a low glycemic index in spite the ratio is much higher– acids and therefore are safe to groups but not for those on of its high sugar content. You about 60 to 1 in corn, for use in frying. (The tempera­ture the low-carbohydrate diets. can eat a moderate amount of example. As a result, feedlot within the frying food is far too In these studies, those in the premium ice cream without cattle and farmed fish, both of low for oils in the food to be low-carbohydrate group lost worrying about weight gain. which are fed mostly corn or affected in this way.) the most weight and showed A four-ounce serving imposes corn products, have a relative the most improvement in their the same glycemic load as a deficiency of omega 3 in their 4. Fat and palatability blood lipoproteins – a decrease medium-sized orange or peach. fat. By contrast, pasture-fed Cooking is one of the in protein-bound triglycerides There is another cattle and ocean salmon have oldest and most basic elements (VLDL, “very bad cholesterol”) mechanical benefit. Eating fat plenty of omega 3 in their fat. of our culture. The creation and an increase in high-density stimulates the gall bladder to Buy wild salmon and, if you of palatability is a high craft, lipoprotein (HDL, “good contract and empty its bile can find it, pasture-fed beef. almost an art. Appetizing food cholesterol”)-- in spite of their or gall into the bile duct and The omega fatty-acids see FAT, page 23 Get coverage that’s right for you. Save up to $500* when you do. Give me a call or stop in to get a quote.

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Fourteen Pennsylvania as one of the innovative children’s opportunities percent of students in Department of Education’s “firsts” in our neighborhood? for academic success in Philadelphia are enrolled 2009 Adequate Yearly CHAD programs include innovative alternative in charter schools—that’s Progress Report (AYP) not only mentoring by learning environments. In a more than 33,100 students, showed that CHAD professionals and graduate first detailed national study outnumbering those in met all of its target goals students, but also CHAD of charter schools published Catholic schools. in graduation rates, students mentoring kids last year, Stanford University But there is skepticism performance in reading in middle school. It has research found that 37 about charter schools, and mathematics, and test an honorary board of percent of charter schools no doubt fed by local preparation after missing nationally and internationally showed academic gains headline news of financial goals in the previous year. recognized leaders in design, that were worse than their mismanagement at several Details on AYP are available education, and business. traditional public school charter schools and test at http://paayp.emetric. In today’s culture of flash counterparts, while only 17 results that compare net. Of course, there are mobs, speed-dating, and percent of charter schools unfavorably with traditional many ways to evaluate a pop-up stores, CHAD seems reported academic gains that district-run public schools. school’s effectiveness. In a positioned for a long future, were significantly better than According to the Pew city in which the average but only time will tell. traditional public schools study, “The school district’s daily attendance rate is 63 In the meantime, let’s (http://credo.stanford.edu). increased focus on improving percent, CHAD’s 99 percent extend a belated welcome The news was not good for quality — as opposed to rate is impressive, as is its to another “first” in our charter school advocates and expanding choice — portends 100 percent graduation rate. neighborhood. ■ taxpayers. a future in which applicants Post-graduate success stories Philadelphia’s decade- long experiment with charter schools is the subject of a penetrating study by the Pew Reminders for an “early” summer Charitable Trusts released management, FROM page 18 see three different colored them in the trash room. Call in June 2010 (http://www. the energy usage and costs in containers in the trash rooms the resident services desk pewtrusts.org/philaresearch). this building. for recycling. We still ask that at 215-923-1776 to have Its survey of parents found We hope that all of you follow the instructions housekeeping pick up the that parents tend to think you have converted your on the signs posted in the boxes. in terms of individual lighting to CFL bulbs or trash room for recycling. If you have not schools, not educational LED lighting. The energy This separation in the trash completed and returned your systems. Overwhelmingly savings when using these room makes it easier and emergency information form, (95 percent), charter school bulbs is remarkable and safer for the staff to pull out please do so. The information parents were somewhat you will eliminate having to anything that may be un- on this form is vital in or very satisfied with the continually change burned recyclable or broken glass helping us to assist you in quality of their child’s out light bulbs. which cannot be recycled. the event of an emergency. It education; 82 percent said Hopkinson House, Please rinse out bottles is also helpful for us to have they would be very likely to as required by the City and jars before putting your e-mail address on file. recommend their school to of Philadelphia, participates them in the recycling bins. Forms can be obtained at the other parents—compared in single stream recycling. Unrinsed bottles can attract Resident Services Desk. with 46 percent for parents This means that the rodents and insects which From Council, with children in district-run recycled items are mixed can find their way into the Management and staff at schools and 76 percent for together on the truck and apartments. Hopkinson House, have Catholic-school parents. are sorted at the dumping If you have boxes to a safe and wonderful In Philadelphia, the station. However, you will discard, please do not leave summer. ■ For ad production and design questions, please contact Adam at Desperate Hours Productions: (215) 813-9766 or [email protected]. ON THE HOUSE • SUMMER 2010 • 23 In praise of fat: A modern myth unravels

FAT, FROM page 19 the conversion of blood sugar a contradiction in terms– an a diet for them, consisting only con­tributes to our happiness to body fat. Despite the barrage oxymoron. of beef rib meat supplemented and mental health but it also of misleading information About 15 years ago by a range of micronutrients— helps those who have lost their we have been subjected to in a professional colleague especially synthetic vitamins appetites through age or illness. recent decades, meat, eggs, and expressed his fascination with and minerals. The rib meat was The fat in good meat is almost dairy products are still good for a TV documentary he had chosen for its high fat content. solely responsible for its flavor us. The phrase, “a healthy low- watched the previous evening, Patients given this diet received and succulence. I surely am fat diet,” became a sacred chant, about people who had become absolutely no carbohydrate. not the only person who has an incantation. This catchy allergic to almost all foods. After several months on the almost choked on lean meat, phrase now stands exposed as Nutritional scientists designed diet they were all in obvious with its dry texture and lack of good health. flavor. Also, as we have already seen, frying in various fats Disclaimer adds significantly to flavor and I am a veterinary doctor surface texture. with a PhD from a medical institute and a life-long Concluding thoughts fascination with the science Fat clearly is an important of nutrition but I am not a nutrient, and a moderately physician. You have entrusted high fat intake is essential to your health to your physician good health. Furthermore, I and you must respect his or have found no valid evidence her advice. You may discuss that a higher intake of fat is the ideas presented here with harmful. In contrast with sugar your physician, or give him and starch, fat does not induce or her the article to read, but the release of insulin and, you should then follow your therefore, does not promote Health foods on display at Garces Trading Co., 1111 Locust Street. physician’s advice. ■ Questions and responses in Jordan, Damascus middle east, FROM page 9 country have its underdog? different. The potential for co- from the Turks in WWI. In of Jordan, and as we travelled The modern state of Jordan operation and development is so Damascus we saw the engine toward the desert of Wadi was formed by King Abdullah great, and the plans to connect on display outside the very Rum, we saw Bedouin I uniting the Arab tribes of the Gulf of Aqaba with the grand Victorian station. We tent camps on the edges of the region who were the ruling Dead Sea are an example of do choose strange monuments, villages and towns. The only elite until the arrival of the what could be, if only. sometimes. discussion of their culture mostly middle class, educated The drive north past Damascus is a sprawling was a description of the role Palestinian refugees. Much of the Dead Sea and on to the 2 million and growing, of coffee drinking in the King Hussein’s rule involved Syrian border illustrated the busy, chaotic city. There reaching of agreements. There navigating between these two varied terrain in this very small isn’t a driver in the city who is a whole code of gestures and groups as they vied for political country; from arid, denuded, understands the purpose number of cups involved. It power. It’s not easy being king. rolling hills to green fields, with of traffic lanes. And in the may take three cups of tea in Standing at the harbor of jagged volcanic mountains as heart of it all is the old city, Afghanistan, but accepting the Aqaba and seeing the shores of a back drop and beyond them perhaps the oldest continually third cup of coffee in the desert Egypt, Israel and Jordan with desert, desert, desert. We were inhabited city in the world. makes your host uncomfortable Saudi Arabia just behind us is a told the trees were all cut down The experience of layer upon about your intentions. Still reminder of how small the area to provide fuel for the railroad’s layer of history, the ancient it would seem the Bedouins, is. It is a little like the boundaries steam engines, the railroad and contemporary woven whether by choice or not, are of Vermont, New Hampshire that Lawrence of Arabia and together is a perfect metaphor outside the mainstream of and Massachusetts all touching Prince Faisal blew up in their for my experiences of the Jordanian society. Does every each other, yet it is so very campaign to capture Aqaba Middle East. ■ Photography: David Roberts David Photography: