Sublime

“If you are deficient in these essential vegetable oils, you cannot possibly be healthy,” the propaganda began to spread like wildfire, to the tune of billions in profits, no doubt with the help of the prodigal propagandist Edward Bernays,7 a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who worked with companies like Procter & Gamble during this time, and who is a

“Moderation” is a cop-out answer—a deliberate attempt to evade the hard work of searching for dietary truths.

But the thing that really sets them apart is that they are a mixture of fats and carbs. And not any old mixture. Broadly speaking, whether it is chocolate or crisps, cake or cheeseburger, they are all made up of roughly 1g fat to 2g carbs. It is a ratio that we seem to find particularly irresistible. The 2:1 ratio Milk chocolate, per 100g – 30g fat

But there are no essential carbohydrates and no essential sugars. Those are not required for survival.

By eleven o’clock the market was over. Many of the truffles that had been bought were already on trains, racing against further evaporation as they left Provence for Paris; or, in some cases, for the Dordogne, where they would be presented as natives of the Périgord. Truffles from this region are considered to be superior—like Cavaillon melons or N