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It's hard to say precisely where Canadians' food habits are these days on the pendulum swing between earnest asceticism and pleasure revenge. But judging from the spate of health - oriented cookbooks on the market, it's safe to assume that many of us are at least trying to eat better. What that means, primarily, is cutting back on fat. Way back.
This is not easy, since permanently reducing dietary fat by even 10% requires a change in sensibility about as profound as switching from Schubert to Snoop Doggy Dog. After a lifetime of cheeseburgers, most of us have acquired a strong sensual and emotional attachment to the succulence of fat. What is clearly needed are food ideas that humanely replace...