Memoirs Archive

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THESE / 12 memorable meals from the year gone by

By Larry Levine – “You’re lucky, eating so many great meals in great restaurants.” I hear statements like that frequently from people who assume I created a restaurant web site (atLarrys.com) and this online food magazine as an excuse to eat great meals in great restaurants. They have it backwards; the great meals in great [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT / the journey back from the operating table to the dining table / Chapter 10 / HEALTHFUL EATING IS A LONELY BUSINESS

By Larry Levine – I offer the following not as a brag but as encouragement. File it under the heading of “If he did it, so can I.” Maybe not exactly the same way. But in a way that works for you. As incentive, I’ll remind you that five months after my quadruple bypass surgery [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – The journey back from the operating table to the dinner table / Chapter 9 / CRUISE SHIPS – where diets go to die

By Larry Levine – (BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT is a memoir in progress being published in draft form in this magazine.) I was doing fine, feeling smug about my ability to stick to a responsible diet – low fat, low cholesterol, low sodium. Then until Jennifer and I set sail on a 16-day [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT/ Chapter 8 / YOU WILL BE TESTED – how well-meaning friends and relatives will place hurdles in your path to more healthful dining

By Larry Levine - Hurdles and tests will be placed in your path at every step along the way to a diet that is low in cholesterol, fat and sodium. And if you have had quadruple coronary bypass surgery, as I did, it very likely will start while you still are in the hospital in [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT / Chapter 7 – THE GREAT CHICKEN SACRIFICE – Clucking your way to healthier dining

By Larry Levine – Here’s to the chickens that have been sacrificed in the name of my healthful diet. I know not how many there have been. But I’ll tell you a secret – this whole post coronary bypass diet business would have been far more difficult, maybe even impossible, without chicken I liked chicken [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – Chapter 6 / The Essential Stocks – Preparing youself for healthful dining that tastes good

By Larry Levine – The secret to freedom when confronting a restaurant menu lies in how well you manage your overall diet when eating at home. I make a game of mental credits out of it: if I’m going out to a restaurant tonight I need to hold the fat, cholesterol and sodium to a [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – The journey back from the operating table to the dinner table / Chapter 5 / Cardiac Surgery Leads to Learning Some Important Stuff About Cholesterol, Triglycerides and Blood Pressure

By Larry Levine – In race track terms, I hit the trifecta with my bypass surgery: high cholesterol, high triglycerides and high blood pressure. The cholesterol issue had plagued me for some 20 years, although I never could remember which was the bad cholesterol and which was the good cholesterol. For about a year before [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – The journey back from the operating table to the dinner table / Chapter 4 / A Chicken Soup Disaster and the cardiologist who blessed a heart-healthy chicken soup recipe

By Larry Levine The full wisdom of my son Lloyd’s words about low vs. no fat/cholesterol/sodium (see Chapter Three) had not yet completely sunk in, when my sister Elisa came to visit two weeks after my quadruple coronary bypass surgery in July 2008. Elisa and I each took pride in our homemade chicken soup recipe, which [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – The journey back from the operating table to the dinner table / Chapter 3 / Back in the Kitchen Again (with recipes)

By Larry Levine – I had no idea how pain medication could mess with my concentration? It was one of the first lessons I learned in the days after I came home from the hospital following quadruple coronary bypass surgery in July 2008. My sternum had been opened wide and wired back together. It was [...]
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BUT I STILL LOVE TO EAT – The journey back from the operating table to the dinner table – Chapter 2 (with recipe)

By Larry Levine - Here’s the deal. I love food. It’s one of the great passions of my life. I love to shop for food, cook food, eat food, talk about food and Tweet about food. I even created a web site that features restaurant recommendations – www.atLarrys.com – and this online food magazine. If [...]
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