Screw Atkins

[bloviatrix]

It seems like there's been a backlash against bread and all other wonderful carbs in media as of late due to the "Atkins Craze." But today at lunch I had two thick slices of pumpernickle raisin bread slathered with Plugra. I sat at the table with a goofy grin on my face because bread and butter makes me happy.

And so, I feel a need to stand up proud and say "I love bread!" Who wants to join me in the love fest?

[chezcherie]

amen, sistah...the only positive thing i can see about the low carb frenzy is that it leaves more bread for US!!!

[Pan]

But Bloviatrix, you're in no apparent danger of becoming fat. I love good bread, too, but people do have different body types.

[jschyun]

mmmm, bread

[Rhea_S]

I'm not too popular with my Atkins co-workers because I just bought Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Bread Bible and have been baking and bringing bread to work. I was never a big bread eater, but the more I get told to eat less carbs, the more I crave bread. Plus I recently discovered Beurre d'Isigny.

[Andrew Fenton]

Funny, just last night as I picked up a loaf from my local fancy-pants bread bakery, I was thinking much the same thing: damn, this is good stuff.

Also wondering: has Atkins hurt the artisanal baking industry much? Doesn't look like it from where I sit, but what do I know...

[bloviatrix]

But Bloviatrix, you're in no apparent danger of becoming fat. I love good bread, too, but people do have different body types.

Trust me, I realize people have different body types. But I chose a provocative title for this thread in order to get people to read it.

[Carolyn Tillie]

I love pain.

Alternately - Pain Is Good.

Edited February 13, 2004 by Carolyn Tillie (log)

[Pan]

Trust me, I realize people have different body types. But I chose a provocative title for this thread in order to get people to read it.

Well, it worked.

[bloviatrix]

Funny, just last night as I picked up a loaf from my local fancy-pants bread bakery, I was thinking much the same thing: damn, this is good stuff.

What type of loaf did you buy? Did you eat it straight or with a schmear of something?

[SethG]

I'm with you, B. Atkins can suck my dough hook!

[Lady T]

Muffins, all by themselves. Anytime.

Warm sesame-seed bagels with cream cheese and nova lox and tomato and a slice of raw for lunch.

Scones with tea for breakfast.

Toast from a sliced oblong of fresh white bread, buttered, spread with pink grapefruit preserves.

Onion-and-cottage-cheese 'gems' baked in muffin pans, served warm with dinner at home.

Gorgeous caraway-seeded light rye before dinner at The Berghoff.

Cornbread with chili.

Oh yeah. I can finish work today: dinner's coming.

[Squeat Mungry]

I couldn't live without my daily ciabatta... or pain de levain... or challah... or sour batard... or...

Thank heaven for Acme, though, because I am a seriously lousy baker!

Cheers,

Squeat

[JennyUptown]

Everything in moderation (including moderation - who said that? it's good stuff).

I love bread. I love pasta. I love rice.

But I also love bacon, steak, sausage, peanut butter, etc.

[ExtraMSG]

For me, low-carb often just means only eating bread if it's especially good. There's so much crappy bread out there, why bother? Also, when I go out to eat and a place is serving Pearl Bakery or Ken's (Portland artisinal bakeries) or in-house breads, I just eat the crusts. It's my favorite part anyway. My wife always eats the soft middle, which is the part she likes.

[tsquare]

Picked up a loaf of buttermilk oat last night. They had too much end of day bread so gave me a second loaf free - whole wheat cider. Lovely Macrina Bakery.

[Pickles]

raisin bread slathered with Plugra.

Had to look that one up. I got the raisin bread part all right, but I've not heard of "Plugra." It's rather an unappetizing name for butter, I must say! Did Marlon Brando use it in "Last Tango?"

[snowangel]

In honor of this thread, just toasted myself two slices of Acme double levain and slavered them with Hope Butter. Carbs rule.

Guess who won't be hungry for dinner?

[lala]

My best friends Mom made the Best homemade bread when I was a kid...mmmm....

One of the best breakfasts I've ever had was in a Paris hotel - a fresh baguette, fresh Real butter and cafe au lait. Heaven

Austrian Sunflower bread from Cafe Beaujolais bakery. They also used to do a chocolate bread with chocolate chunks. Stunningly good.

Real bagel and schmear

The little rolls made in Austria with butter and their whole apricot jam

Garlic bread made with any good artisinal bread, topped off with reggiano, run under the grill.

Those sesame seeded, chewy round rings of bread sold on the streets in Greece.

Good bread and Good butter is the perfect whoops-I-drank-too-much midnight munchy food. Preferably with homemade blackberry jam.

Cornbread slathered with honey butter.

Edited February 13, 2004 by lala (log)

[Mabelline]

OH YEAH...all things bread...I can't even think of any I don't like. Even wonder bread's got a place and time. I would not consider going fishing without a whole loaf of pickle/pimento loaf made up and put back in the bag, along with 4 pimento cheese sammies in there.

[snowangel]

OH YEAH...all things bread...I can't even think of any I don't like. Even wonder bread's got a place and time. I would not consider going fishing without a whole loaf of pickle/pimento loaf made up and put back in the bag, along with 4 pimento cheese sammies in there.

Fishing where and for what?

Heels of bread, buttered, and in a bag are wonderful out on the lake in a tin boat...

[Arey]

Even wonder bread's got a place and time.

I couldn't agree more. When baiting your House Sparrow trap, to give the Martins and Tree Swallows first choice at the nesting gourds, nothing beats Wonder Bread.

[ghostrider]

Right on.

As I said in another thread, "moderation in all things" is the key.

Give up crusty Italian bread? Swear off De Cecco pasta? NEVER!!!!!

You'll have to pry that pasta fork from my cold dead hands....

[Mabelline]

Fishing anywhere, at anytime, for anything. I'm far more familiar with southern fish and fishing, but this year SO and I will be doing much more. Last summer he was too busy with fire duty for us to go. We're only about a mile north of the Yellowstone River here, but the place we're buying is only a few miles from a small lake. My SO's cousins run a boat ramp at Holter Lake, at a location outside Yellowstone Park called Gates of the Mountains.

I have been known to fish with no hook on the line if I am comfortable enough and the gar were around.

[Cusina]

Real bagel and schmear

The little rolls made in Austria with butter and their whole apricot jam

Garlic bread made with any good artisinal bread, topped off with reggiano, run under the grill.

Those sesame seeded, chewy round rings of bread sold on the streets in Greece.

Good bread and Good butter is the perfect whoops-I-drank-too-much midnight munchy food. Preferably with homemade blackberry jam.

Cornbread slathered with honey butter.

lala, you rock. Stick around will you?

Couldn't have said it better myself. I especially agree with the drunken toast with jam theory. Mmmm mmm.