Sunday, June 17, 2007
People call Cambridge the "People's Republic," but Brookline isn't far behind. I can't help but be uncomfortable with legislators figuring it's their business to go around dictating recipe choices: Trimming the trans fat
BROOKLINE -- So you are the owner of a restaurant whose very existence celebrates a life well-lived, and well-fed, with iconic paintings of corpulent figures festooning the walls, and potato pancakes filling the plates. And now your town has voted to ban a whole category of fat.
What do you do?
If you are Bob Shuman , who opened Zaftigs Delicatessen in Coolidge Corner a decade ago, you act before the town does.
Weeks ahead of the May 31 Town Meeting that adopted the state's first prohibition on artificial trans fats, Shuman saw the writing on the menu and drained trans-fat oil from his Frialator , replacing it with a healthier brew of canola, grape seed, and safflower oils. The switch costs him $400 extra a month, he said...
