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January 31, 2019

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From waitress to business owner: 20 years at Pasta Pasta

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Debra Bowling, the new owner of Pasta Pasta in Port Jefferson village, knows the customers who walk through the old wood doors. She herself started 20 years ago as a waitress and has kept loyal to the restaurant ever since. Now, after two decades, she’s in charge.

However, despite owning the restaurant, she expects she will still continue to wait tables.

“That’s not going to change,” Bowling, a Setauket resident, said. She was almost successful at suppressing a laugh. “We still have two kids in college, so I really put a lot of hours in here. I said if I’m going to work so hard, I might as well work for myself.”

The restaurant serves what the new owner described as American food with an Italian flavor, providing everything from fish to pasta to salads.

The eatery is also famous for its flaky and moist garlic bread.

Previous owners Steve Sands and Jules Buitron bought Pasta Pasta back in 1998, already owning another restaurant on the South Shore.

Sands said they already knew and liked the Port Jeff restaurant, back when its menu was limited to pizza and pasta, so they decided to purchase it and bring in Bowling, who was at that time

Pasta Pasta, located at 234 E. Main Street, Port Jefferson. Photo by Kyle Barr

planning on moving to the North Shore.

Once Sands and Buitron decided they wanted to sell, Bowling was the first person they talked to about buying the restaurant.

“She’s a hard worker, she knows the business and she knows the customers,” Sands said. “She’s got a great team. Much of the kitchen crew has been there before we even bought the restaurant.”

Sands said he still plans to visit the restaurant when he can.

“The reason I bought it because it’s always been my favorite restaurant,” he said.

That doesn’t mean it’s not a big transition for Bowling and her family. The new restaurant owner’s husband Jerry is also there on a regular basis where he can be seen manning the phone and helping with whatever needs doing.

So much of Bowling’s life has been spent at

the restaurant, and her children have also moved through the restaurant as a part of growing up.

“Five of my six kids have worked here, and two of them still work here,” the restaurant owner said.

While many have moved on, the kids have been supportive of their mother’s new venture, with her son Ryan Burns posting a heartwarming social media message to his mother saying how much she inspired him.

And even with these new expectations laid on her shoulders, Bowling still has two families to assist her, one at home and one at work, including kitchen manager Anthony Vadala, who has helped Bowling and her team throughout the years. Now with her running the show those two families are more intertwined than ever.

“We’re all a family here, the kitchen staff

has been here before me,” she said. “Most of the waitresses were here between 10 and 15 years.”

Bowling intends to keep the food and the atmosphere the same as it has been, though she does have a few design changes in mind, including some new paint on the walls, new bathrooms and replacing the windows up front so they can be swung open on atmospheric summer evenings.

The customers who have gone to the restaurant for years probably couldn’t accept too much change, and there are quite a few regulars. Even before she owned the restaurant, Bowling was a well-known face to her multitudes of regular customers, often those who have their own set of menus internalized in the minds of the Pasta Pasta staff. Some of those longtime customers who constantly travel make it a point to stop in her restaurant, even going out of their way to call ahead of time and beg the restaurant for a bowl of pasta, the kind the restaurant staff knows they like in particular. Baby showers have been hosted in the restaurant, and just last year, the restaurant hosted a wedding as well.

“On New Year’s Eve we had a wedding here,” Bowling said. “They met on their first date here on New Year’s Eve two years ago. She met here, she has to get married here ... That’s just from them getting to know us over the years.”

Deep divide over status of Suffolk County’s fiscal health Executive Steve Bellone, Comptroller John Kennedy Jr. offer differing view of what financial future holds

BY SARA-MEGAN WALSH SARA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM When asked to critically examine Suffolk County’s finances and what lies ahead for residents, our executive branch and accounting officials couldn’t be further divided on their vision of the future.

Suffolk Comptroller John Kennedy Jr. (R) said out of the $410 million operating note the county sought to sell for 2019 operating funds only half, or $207 million, could be competitively sold in December. Instead, he had to rely on a negotiated agreement with Bank of America to give the funds needed to run the county’s government at an interest rate of 2.35 percent.

“This has been one of the toughest times we’d had in the market since I’ve taken office,” Kennedy said.

The county comptroller, since 2015, said it was a combination of factors that negatively impacted Suffolk: seeking funding later than normal, stock market uncertainty and, perhaps most importantly, that Moody’s downgrading the county’s bond rating from A3 to Baa1.

“We are barred from being purchased by

many major investment funds,” Kennedy said, citing Fidelity and T. Rowe Price Group won’t invest. “We are in some very strenuous times.”

Eric Naughton, Suffolk’s budget director, said while the county’s bond rating was dropped the comptroller was “overstating” its impact and meaning. “[Moody’s investors] are looking at the past,” he said. “They are not looking at what is happening in the future.”

Naughton cited how Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone (D) has implemented many structural changes since taking office in 2012 including reducing the county’s workforce by approximately 1,200 employees, closed John J. Foley nursing home in Yaphank that was losing money and creating the Traffic and Parking Violations Agency to bring in additional funds.

Kennedy countered that from March 2012 to September 2018 Moody’s has downgraded the county’s bond rating by five ranks.

“We need to change how county government operates,” the comptroller said.

Suffolk is not likely to see the state takeover of the county’s government like Nassau

according to Kennedy, in good part because the county has about half the outstanding debt of neighboring Nassau — a sentiment with which Naughton agreed.

The comptroller suggested that in order to avoid dire straits, Suffolk officials should move to consolidate by merging county offices with similar functions, encourage shared services among municipalities, reduce its workforce, evaluate and sell off surplus property where possible, like the former Suffolk County Police 6th Precinct building in Coram.

Jason Elan, a spokesman for Bellone, said the county executive has done just that.

Under Bellone, the county treasurer and comptroller positions were merged, as were four departments made into two: Labor and Consumer Affairs and Economic Development and Planning. Bellone made county employees contribute 15 percent to their health insurance premiums while taking a pay freeze himself, at an estimated savings of more than $300,000.

Further, Suffolk’s workforce has been reduced and, according to Naughton, county-operated land and property is being evaluated to see if it can be deemed surplus.

“Structural changes were needed and these structural changes were adopted,” Bellone’s spokesman said, noting Kennedy voted against or opposed many of the measures.

What looms ahead for Suffolk is negotiation of a new contract with the Police Benevolent Association. Kennedy said at a current cost of $573 million per year, the police contract is the largest item in the county’s $3.11 billion 2019 budget followed by roughly $451 million for county employee’s health insurance.

“If we are not focused on actively managing those expenditures in both categories, we might as well shut off the lights and go home,” he said.

In fact, it’s not just the police but all of the county’s employee contracts have expired.

Elan said Bellone would not comment on the status of PBA negotiations.

Rather he said the county’s greatest opportunity lies in furthering its economic development, like the proposed Ronkonkoma Hub and other projects that will bring businesses to the area.

These issues are some that are expected to be addressed by Bellone when he gives his annual State of the County per tradition in May.

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Democratic committee chairman on election/policies for next two years

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM In the lexicon of tarot, cards used by soothsayers for divination, there are many cards used to describe a person’s lot in life.

If Rich Schaffer, the Suffolk County Democratic Committee chairman, could be represented by any card, it would be the chariot. Schaffer is at the head of the race, with the Democrats taking majority positions in the New York State Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, but he’s holding onto the reins of two horses, the moderate and far-left elements of his party, and he said his task is to keep both heading in the same direction.

“My job’s been described as the therapist in chief,” said Schaffer, who is also Town of Babylon supervisor. “I’m always either talking somebody off the ledge or helping them through an issue.”

In last year’s elections, the Democratic Party won big both in New York state and nationally, securing the state Senate as well as the Assembly, and gaining a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was a change of pace for the party, which was beleaguered after its loss during the 2016 elections that saw Donald Trump (R) sent to the White House.

In Suffolk County, many GOP members retained their seats despite hard campaigns from the Dems. Longtime Republican representatives such as state Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) kept their seats in Albany, while U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) won out at 51.5 percent against his Democratic challenger Perry Gershon. Still, Schaffer said they have made strides in the county, pointing to the election of state Sen. Monica Martinez (D-Brentwood) who won out over her GOP rival Dean Murray by 2,996 votes.

Schaffer added that he thinks the next time District 1 is up for grabs, it could swing blue.

Suffolk County “has been blue in the past,” the Democratic committee chairman said.

Specifically, he points to the 35-day

Rich Schaffer works in his North Babylon office in 2017. Photo by Alex Petroski

government shutdown that was put on hold for three weeks Jan. 25. Schaffer laid the blame for the shutdown at the president’s feet and said his Republican supporters in Congress would take the brunt of the blame.

“What they are doing to people’s livelihoods and their survival is unconscionable,” he said.

“A political debate has now turned into almost scorched earth, where people’s lives are at stake.”

On the state level Schaffer said there are, all in all, six Democratic members elected to the state Senate who will represent Long Island, including new members Martinez and James Gaughran (D-Northport).

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The differences between those two subsets of Democrats is something Schaffer said he’s

particularly aware of. Nationally, much has been said about the rise of much more leftleaning Democrats, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bronx). She has been open about progressive ideas such as universal health care, establishing tuition-free colleges and trade schools, and creating a marginal tax system as high as 70 percent, which would mostly affect those in the wealthiest tax brackets. A bill for single-payer health care is currently being circulated in the state Assembly.

Schaffer said he was not against policies such as universal health care, but he wanted the discussion to be had up in Albany about how the state was planning to pay for that program.

Schaffer also questioned the viability of a Cortez-like candidate in Suffolk County.

“I mean it’s easy for [Cortez] to speak like she does with the district she comes from, when your main election battle is the primary,” Schaffer said. “When you’re running Suffolk County North Shore and your district is not as friendly registration wise, this gets to if you elect Democrats who support basic Democratic ideas.”

Overall, Schaffer was adamant the best way to win Democratic seats in Suffolk County was to form coalitions, work off core democratic principles and promise to work toward local issues.

“You can’t have Cortez running in East Northport,” he said. “Some people will argue with me that ‘Yes, you can,’ but it has not been my experience out here. That’s not to say we can’t have things on the progressive agenda, but they have to be spoken about in a way that’s going to get you 50 percent plus one.”

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Centereach girls fencing faced Sayville/ Bayport/Connetquot at the old Sayville junior high school Jan. 26 with two matches remaining in the regular season.

According to Centereach Coach Cristina Piraino, her squad wasn’t at full strength with missing a few starters who were competing in the Science Olympiads event.

Despite the spotty roster the Cougars managed to win 10 of 27 bouts where Kayley Otero won all three of her matches in foil, as did eighth-grader Gianna DiCanio.

The Cougars rallied back later in the day to beat Brentwood/Bay Shore 15-12 to remain in second place at 5-2 in League II. Centereach is back out on the strip at home Jan 31. First bout is at 5 p.m.

Pictured clockwise from above, Centereach sabreist Jessica Keiser, right, is en garde against her challenger; Catherine Dwulit a senior for Centereach is challenged in sabre on the strip; Centereach junior Nadine Puglia, right, a cocaptain competes in épée against Sayville/ Bayport/Connetquot; and DiCanio, right, in her first year on varsity went undefeated 3-0 in foil on the road.

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Never again

Michael Imperato in his letter, “Another view on global warming,” in The Village Times Herald Jan. 24 correctly criticizes George Altemose’s letter “A personal view of global warming” in the Jan. 17 edition for invoking a baseless conspiracy theory to accuse 97 percent of climate scientists of dishonestly fudging facts to further a left-wing agenda.

Scientifically, Altemose makes five assertions: 1. He accepts that global warming is occurring. 2. But industrial activity has nothing to do with it. 3.

Variations in the sun’s energy output are primarily responsible. 4. Water vapor drives the greenhouse effect. 5. The piddling increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, 0.041 percent (410 parts per million) in 2018, “slightly” higher than 0.028 percent in 1800, is negligible.

Now, we’re not talking geologic time, but 60 years of accelerating increase in CO2 (1958, 315 ppm; 1990, 350 ppm;

Editorial The U.S. government declared a ceasefire in a war against itself Jan. 25. The three-week agreement to end the 35-day government shutdown is a compromise to lower the guns so the two sides can talk but, if anything, the weapons are still loaded.

If it were a real agreement, it wouldn’t have been given a deadline.

That’s what the whole government shutdown has felt like, a war, and like any modern war, the people who are hurt most are the civilians caught in the crossfire.

The number of people affected has been reported so often, but it is worth repeating. There were some 800,000 federal workers who were furloughed or forced to work without pay during the government closure, the longest shutdown in this nation’s history.

Last week, TBR News Media reported on businesses who assisted those federal workers by providing free food and services. Some of those shops received 200, 300 or more people in a single weekend seeking help, and those same business owners spent hundreds of out-of-pocket dollars to help feed people. Organizations that usually create food kitchens for the holiday season or during national disasters organized for the thousands affected.

Even though the shutdown is over, major news outlets report workers do not know when they will receive their full back pay.

Federal watchdogs said it might take the IRS a full year to recover from the lingering effects of the shutdown. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report Jan. 28 saying the shutdown cost the U.S. economy $11 billion, $3 million of which it will never recover.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump (R) said the likelihood of reaching a deal is less than 50 percent. That’s not good enough.

This government shutdown was a hostage situation, and we at TBR News Media believe it should not become a regular political tool to hang the U.S. economy up by its lapels until it coughs up whatever an individual or political body desires. Another modern country has experienced a shutdown in the past. In 1975, Australia was unable to pass a budget. That shutdown resulted in first, the prime minister getting sacked then later the entire parliament was sacked as well, and a new vote was required to help reform the government. Australia has not had a government shutdown since.

The U.S. requires legislation that mandates some sort of repercussion for politicians that force, or allow, a shutdown to occur.

U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) announced at the start of the closure he would not take any pay while government workers went without. That is a good start, and it should be codified and expanded to include every elected official in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Residents should call upon their elected representatives, like Zeldin, to propose disciplinary measures once the dust of this political wrangling finally settles. While those who work in Congress won’t necessarily feel the pain and indecency that those who have lived without paychecks for several weeks had to endure, it might remind them they were elected to help — not harm — those they swore to represent.

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The data involved in climate change 2018, 410 ppm) while Earth’s average surface temperature rose by 1.39 degrees Fahrenheit (0.77 Celsius) from 1951 to 1980, and 2.09 F (1.16 C) over 1800 (Newsday, p. A32, Jan. 25), while the only variation in sun output has been the 11-year sunspot cycle, and the past five, hottest, years are in fact in a solar minimum.

The greenhouse effect that makes Earth habitable depends entirely on “trace” gases: chiefly water vapor, CO2, methane, nitrous oxide. The major gases, nitrogen, oxygen and argon (99-plus percent) are transparent to both visible and infrared light and have no role.

All objects warmer than absolute zero (0 Kelvin, -273.15 C) radiate energy, the white-hot sun as visible light, the cool Earth as middle infrared radiation.

Tropospheric trace gases absorb this IR and re-emit it in all directions, half into space, half back to Earth, warming it.

More gases, more back-radiation, more warming. Water vapor already absorbs

nearly all the IR radiation it can in its IR windows, equilibrates daily and is beyond our control. CO2 and especially methane still have much absorptive capacity in their windows, accumulate and stick around — CO2 for 100 years, methane for 20.

The data for annual industrial production of coal, oil, natural gas (methane) and cement are well known, and so is the resulting CO2 production: about 30-36 billion tonnes (gigatonnes) annually since 1990. Atmospheric CO2 (7.8 Gt/ppm) increased by 469 Gt, less than total industrial input.

Modeling the effects of indisputable global warming is complicated, given multiple variables, but we already see the predicted extreme weather variations: more drought, fires and heat waves, frigid winter southward-moving polar vortices, more and more intense hurricanes.

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

Debunking 97 percent in global warming In a Jan. 24 letter on the subject of global warming, “Another view on global warming,” writer Michael Imperato informed us that 97 percent of climate scientists believe that global warming is due to human activity, and that this consensus is based on hundreds of studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

This came as quite a surprise, because I think the real number of such studies is closer to two. The first was a brief article

by Naomi Oreskes, which reviewed 928 papers on global warming, and concluded that the degree of agreement on the proposition of anthropomorphic global warming was basically 100 percent.

In the second study, the catchy 97 percent number was run up the flagpole

by John Cook, who was a Climate Communication Fellow at the University of Queensland. The Cook group, consisting of 12 volunteer climate activists, examined 11,944 related scientific papers, of which 7,930 (66 percent) took no position and were not included in the tally. Cook’s trick was to devise three categories for the level of global warming caused by humans.

Category 1. The most severe, stated that humans are the primary cause of recent global warming. Category 2. It stated that humans are causing some degree of global warming, without quantification. Category 3. It stated that greenhouse gases cause global warming, without explicitly stating that humans are responsible.

Of the 34 percent of papers that were counted, the group concluded that 97 percent fell into at least one of the three categories. This is hardly remarkable, because virtually anyone, even an uncaring “layperson,” to use Imperato’s pejorative term, would be reasonably likely to agree with the provisions of categories 2 and 3. The result was a great boon to the global warming aficionados, because it absolved them of the need to look into the pesky technical details, and allowed them instead to pass the buck to the “97 percent of scientists.”

President Barack Obama (D), for example, lectured us that 97 percent of climate experts believe that global warming is “real, man-made and dangerous,” when the truth is that they

said no such thing.

In 2015 a review of Cook’s papers was performed by a group of real scientists, led by David Legates, a professor of climatology at the University of Delaware, and the author of more than 125 related published articles. The Legates group found that only 0.3 percent of the 11,944 Cook papers actually endorsed the proposition that humans had caused more than half of the warming since 1950, and that the “97 percent” claim was a gross misrepresentation.

The Cook claim, according to Legates, was shown to be a fine example of agnotology, which is “the study of how ignorance arises via circulation of misinformation calculated to mislead.”

Today, the Cook study is widely regarded as being highly flawed.

Michael Crichton, presumably an Imperato layperson, advised us, “There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.”

George Altemose Setauket

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January 31, 2019 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • PAGE A19

Opinion

My take on four popular movies

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he film “Bohemian Rhapsody” is far better than the critics suggest, while “Green Book” isn’t as deep or powerful as it could be. After watching four movies recently, including “Aquaman” and “Mary Poppins Returns,” I want to share my reactions to each of these films.

Featuring my favorite superhero, “Aquaman” had the opportunity to inspire and D. None demoralize me of the above at the same time.

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF The movie was going to be a CGI (computer-generated imagery) extravaganza, with numerous impossible-to-imagine scenes filmed underwater. I don’t generally crave spectacular and splashy visuals, especially if

they are designed to compensate for a weak script or disappointing acting.

Unfortunately for the water hero, the CGI was considerably more polished than the script, with attempts at humorous dialogue that were so underwhelming that it was tempting to urge the actors to stop talking and continue to swim through the scenery. Nonetheless, the movie did have its escapist and captivating elements. Perhaps the best way to enjoy a movie like this is not to think too much and to appreciate the ride. The spectacular visual spectacle almost merited the effort of seeing the movie on a large screen, instead of waiting for it to appear on a movie channel in a few months time.

Making a “Mary Poppins” sequel immediately asks the film to build on its successes, while introducing something new and engaging in its own right. The film succeeded on the first front, but fell a bit short, at least for me, on the second. Emily Blunt captured Mary’s supreme self-confidence, and magic magnificently. She took an iconic character owned

by Julie Andrews and made it her own. The animated sequences, which were more lavish and extended than in the original, helped the movie create its own indelible images. The lyrics to the songs, however, weren’t quite as memorable as the original, at least for me.

“Green Book” maneuvers through the societal challenges that arise from a white driver who is transporting an African-American pianist, Don Shirley, through the South for performances in 1962. The movie feels important because it addresses bias and stereotypes during a period when the struggle for Civil Rights took root. Set against racial tensions, the film addresses the developing relationship between its two stars and has moments of tenderness and transformation for the duo at the heart of the story. It also addresses the remarkable contradiction between white society eager to enjoy the talents of an African-American entertainer and the inability of that same audience to respect the person as an equal.

Still, the movie felt like it could have been so much more. The film shows details of the

life story of the driver Tony Lip, played with his usual energy and passion by Viggo Mortensen.

Shirley, portrayed by Mahershala Ali, tells the background of his life. The movie would have benefited from a deeper and better understanding of Shirley’s life, which, some members of his family have suggested was different from the portrayal in the film.

That leads me to “Bohemian Rhapsody.” I didn’t know a great deal about the musicians or their backstory. For me, the film was an enormous hit for two reasons: Rami Malek, who played lead singer Freddie Mercury, and the music itself. Malek embodied the energy, spirit, and unique character that was Mercury, parading around the stage, commanding every scene and blending bravado with an underlying vulnerability. The story doesn’t turn Mercury into a saint but, rather, shares his complicated life.

For fans of Queen’s music, the movie is a satisfying compilation of familiar hits that allow the legend of a wildly successful group to resonate.

is a challenge to good health. Writer Brody recommends portion control rather than dieting and deprivation as the solution. I like that.

The second article, serving to scold me, is titled “Cut Added Sugars, Study Suggests,” by Anahad O’Connor. This is a problem for me because I have a well-honed sweet tooth. Yes I can eliminate sugar in my coffee or tea, but my downfall is my passion for sauces. And sauces are often loaded with sugar — added sugar that the article proclaims a no-no. If you read the ingredients on any packaged food, you will be surprised to find often that sugar is one of the first five listed. Don’t buy it. Yogurts, sauces, salad dressings and bread — yes, bread — can have added sugar. Fruit juices, soft drinks and other sweet drinks have sugar. They can be replaced with unsweetened ice tea, milk and, best of all, water. The sugar found naturally in fruit is fine.

It’s the added stuff that can cause a devastating condition known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which may cause the liver to swell with dangerous levels of fat. This raises the risk of

type 2 diabetes and heart disease that can even progress to liver cancer, cirrhosis and the need for a liver transplant. A recent randomized study of children with fatty liver disease was able to substantially reduce liver fat in only eight weeks on a low sugar diet, O’Connor wrote.

Solution: Read the labels on the food you buy and avoid added sugars. For me, that means limited amounts of (sob!) sauces.

The other good news article talked about the value of short bursts of exercise. “Treating Exercise Like a Snack” by Gretchen Reynolds extols the virtue of walking up stairs several times a day. “As little as 20 seconds of brisk stair climbing, done several times a day, might be enough exercise to improve fitness,” concludes a new study on interval-style training. These are instant workouts that don’t require elaborate preparations or equipment.

Aren’t we lucky? Our office is a duplex.

Oh, oh. A small sidebar just caught my eye.

Entitled “Fried Foods and Heart Disease,” it will have to wait for another column.

My lifestyle grades: 2 A’s and 1 F

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t was a roller-coaster ride for me through the pages of The ScienceTimes on Tuesday. Always a favorite read for me, this section of The New York Times often has an article of interest or even one that could improve my life. This time there were three, and if I were scoring myself, I would say I did pretty well on two and not very well on the third.

The first, headlined “Smaller Portions Support Lasting Weight Between Loss,” by Jane E. you and me Brody, is right in

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF my wheelhouse.

Whenever I am eating in a restaurant, which I do for business meetings as well as an occasional social

gathering, I usually order only a main course and skip the appetizer. Or if I do get an appetizer, which I might share with my companion, I will cut the portion of the entrée in half when it arrives at the table, enjoy that, and take the second half home. In that way, I feel virtuous about making two meals out of one, saving not only money but, more importantly, calories.

I don’t know if you have noticed, but restaurant portions have gotten larger over the past decade. And the idea of a doggy bag has become more socially acceptable. When asked, waiters will arrive with takeout containers in a jiffy. For those of us in the generation that was told we had to finish every morsel on our plate because children were starving in China, this is one way to break that lifetime habit.

There is no question that Americans are getting fatter. Data just released shows that our average body mass index is right at the cutoff for obesity, Brody wrote. If you go to another country, as I did recently to Canada, people in the street look thinner than we do. We all know that obesity

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