52 Loaves (2010)
“A dog fed on the coarse bread of the military lives and keeps his health.—François Magendie, writing in the Lancet, 1826 Weight: 205 poundsBread bookshelf weight: 33 pounds Anne looked uncommonly grim as she appeared for breakfast in the kitchen, where I was munching on a slice of pain de campagne toast.
“How many weeks are left ?” She didn’t have to specify how many weeks of what.
“I don’t know. A lot. Why?
“I’m getting fat.”
“You’re blaming the bread? I don’t think so. Look at me.”
“Have you ...weighed yourself lately?”
“Ninety-three kilograms.”
“Two hundred and five pounds? You’re getting fat.”
I’d forgotten that as a doctor (and a former resident of Canada), she knew the metric system.
It was true that we’d been eating a lot of bread lately, having toast for breakfast and slathering butter over peasant bread at dinner, and when I wasn’t making my own, I was coming home with armfuls of bakery bread to compare with mine. The Atkins diet this wasn’t.MoreLess
“How many weeks are left ?” She didn’t have to specify how many weeks of what.
“I don’t know. A lot. Why?
“I’m getting fat.”
“You’re blaming the bread? I don’t think so. Look at me.”
“Have you ...weighed yourself lately?”
“Ninety-three kilograms.”
“Two hundred and five pounds? You’re getting fat.”
I’d forgotten that as a doctor (and a former resident of Canada), she knew the metric system.
It was true that we’d been eating a lot of bread lately, having toast for breakfast and slathering butter over peasant bread at dinner, and when I wasn’t making my own, I was coming home with armfuls of bakery bread to compare with mine. The Atkins diet this wasn’t.MoreLess
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