Late Night Dinner at Five & Ten in Athens, Georgia
At first, I was really, really upset that my flight to Atlanta was delayed, making us miss our 8:30 dinner reservation at Five & Ten in Athens, Georgia.
This was no ordinary dinner reservation. My brother Joe and wife Rachel had arranged a special tasting meal for us with Five & Ten’s executive chef, Jason Zygmont, who they originally met when Joe stopped into the kitchen one day last year unannounced to borrow preserving salt for some charcuterie he was making. Joe returned a few weeks later to give Jason some of the duck proscuitto he had cured, expecting to quickly drop it off with the busy chef...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - May 5, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Restaurant Reviews Travel Athens Georgia FIVE & TEN Hugh Acheson JAson Zygmont Source Type: blogs
Haitian Griot Served with Cuban Black Beans & Rice and Marinated Cucumber Salad
If I haven’t blogged much in the way of new recipes lately, it’s because not much of what we’ve been trying lately has been blog worthy. Oh, of course, it’s been edible. Maybe even tasty. But not worth sharing with the world.
But this dinner? It’s worth shouting about.
In fact, I’ll go on record and say it’s one of the best meals we’ve ever made. And worth every minute of preparation, which is not a lot of time at the stove, but does include an overnight marinade and a couple of hours braising. So save it for a weekend dinner when you can give it the time it deserves to sa...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - March 24, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Salads Vegetarian Cuban black beans & rice Cucumber Salad Haitian Griot Melissa Clarke Source Type: blogs
NED – Gyn Oncologists Rock On to Raise Awareness & Funding for Gyn Cancers
No Evidence of Disease (NED) is the phrase oncologists use to describe a patient in remission from cancer. It’s also the name of a rock band whose members are all gyn oncologists – surgeons who care for women with gynecologic cancers. And the name of the documentary about how that band is joining with women to raise awareness and increase funding for research into gynecologic cancer.
The film is a melding of the stories of these dedicated doctors and their patients, and the stories are both heartwarming and sobering. The filmmakers did a wonderful job of representing women from all aspects of our society and ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - March 9, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized NED No Evidence of Disease Source Type: blogs
Winter Citrus Salad with Fennel, Clementines and Arugula
Fridays nights in winter, Mr TBTAM plays tennis, so I’m on my own. It’s my night out with the girls or a good time to shop, get a cut and color or a mani-pedi.
This Friday night, however, all I really to do was be home. It was freezing cold outside, and I knew the rest of the weekend was going to be busy. After an even busier week, I was craving some alone time.
The default mode would be take out, but I wanted a good meal, not a slice or some lo mein. And something that would hold up well for leftovers tomorrow as a nice Valentine’s Day lunch with Mr TBTAM.
I decided on something tried and true, and a ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 16, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Salads arugula citrus Clementines Fennel grapefruit orange winter Source Type: blogs
The Events – NY Times Review
The Events, David Greig’s play about the aftermath of a violent event, set on a bare stage with two actors and a community choir – got a nice review in today’s NY Times.
This gutsy work by the Scottish dramatist David Greig, which opened on Thursday night at New York Theater Workshop, sets the restless pain of a mass-shooting survivor against the stolid, consoling presence of a community choir.
It’s a juxtaposition that evokes Greek tragedy, in which choruses of common humanity echoed and annotated the words of afflicted heroes. And the program for this production includes a note from its director, Ram...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 14, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What Should You be Worried About? It’s Not What You Think
Worriers out there – take note. You’re probably spending your precious brain energy worrying about the wrong things.
If you want to know what’s most likely to kill you, the British National Health Service’s Atlas of Risk can tell you. The tool does a great job putting health risks into perspective, and can be customized for your sex and age group. It’s interesting to see how the causes of death change with age.
One thing that becomes clear as you play with the risk tool. Most of the things that could kill you throughout your adult life can be prevented by three things which are in your contr...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 13, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Women's Health Source Type: blogs
More on Breast Density Notification Laws
There’s a nice discussion of the practical considerations around breast density notification laws in this week’s NEJM.
The editorial and accompanying podcast summarize what we do and don’t know about breast density, and give practical suggestions for incorporating breast density into the discussion around mammography screening for individual patients. Online access to both the editorial and podcast discussion is free, and I encourage you to read and listen.
Bottom line
Most women under age 60 will have dense breasts on mammography. Breast density is subjective, and we do not as yet have a computeriz...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 12, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Mammography Source Type: blogs
Stuffed Eggplant with Lamb & Pinenuts from Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem
I know the year’s barely begun, but this dish from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem is well on its way to being my most memorable meal of 2015. Maybe even the past decade.
And this from a gal who says she doesn’t like eggplant.
If you don’t own Jerusalem, you must. Every recipe in it is a gem. The day after I was given it from my dear friends Karen and Steven, (OMG thank you!), my book club was over for dinner. They all gathered round and placed stickies on their favorite recipe in the book that I simply must make. The entire book is one giant sticky collection, but somehow this recipe escaped t...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 10, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Vegetables Augergines Jerusalem Lamb Ottolenghi pine nuts Pinenuts Sami Tamimi Stuffed eggplant Yotam Ottolenghi Source Type: blogs
Dying Now
Regular readers will have noted that blog posts of late are few and far between. It’s not for a lack of interest (for I still so love my blog), but it is for a severe shortage of time. I’m cleaning up a backlog of tasks and commitments, administrative duties, grants and paper writing, lecture preparation and giving, and in general all the things above and beyond patient care that consume the life of the academic physician. Not to mention a wonderfully full, busy personal and family life.
Yep, life is good.
Speaking of which, allow me to share this wonderful song I just discovered. Someone must have told me ab...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 7, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Inspirational Dying Now Eric Gundersen Source Type: blogs
Removing the Fallopian Tubes to Prevent Ovarian Cancer – Something to Consider
New information strongly suggests that most ovarian cancers originate, not in the ovary, but in the fallopian tube. If this is so, then removal of the fallopian tubes may actually prevent ovarian cancer.
The evidence is powerful enough that the American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists is now recommending that fallopian tube removal be considered in women planning to undergo surgical sterilization or hysterectomy.
The Fallopian Tube Origin of Ovarian Cancer
We used to think that ovarian cancer originated in the peritoneal lining that covers the ovaries and abdominal organs. But the fallopian tube origin of ova...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - January 23, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Best of TBTAM Family Planning Ovarian Cancer Essure Fallopian tube oophorectomy prophylactic salpingectomy Sterilization Tie my tuibes tubal ligation Tubes Source Type: blogs
I’m Singing in The Events
I’m so excited to share that my chorus, the Collegiate Singers, will be singing on Feb 25, 2014 in the NY Theater Workshop production of David Greig’s play “The Events”, the play that won a First at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, and has been touring ever since.
The Events tells the story of Claire—an enthusiastic and engaged female priest who leads a choir in a community setting. Claire experiences something terrible: a young man she vaguely knew turns a gun on those who “aren’t from here” in a misguided attempt to make his mark on society. The Events is not a depiction of such terrible eve...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - January 22, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Collegiate Singers Greig New York Theater Workshop The Events Source Type: blogs
Breast Screening Decisions – A Mammogram Decision Aid
I’m proud and excited to introduce you to Breast Screening Decisions, an online Mammogram Decision Aid designed to provide individualized, unbiased information that can help women ages 40-49 decide when to start and how often to have screening mammograms.
Breast Screening Decisions (BSD) was created in the wake of the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations that every woman in her 40’s make an individual decision about when to start and how often to have mammograms. Not all medical groups agreed with the USPSTF recommendation, adding to the confusion many women feel about the mammogram deci...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 15, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Mammography decide decision how often mammogram screening should I have a mammogram start Source Type: blogs
A Call for Peace & Interfaith Dialog
Four Congregations, One Thanksgiving (from Trinity Wall St Blog)
Here’s an event you didn’t see covered in the media because it doesn’t make headlines or stoke the fires of hatred that seem to be flaring across this globe of ours.
It happened on Thanksgiving –
More than two hundred and fifty meals were served at Interfaith Community Thanksgiving in St. Paul’s Chapel on Thanksgiving Day November 27. The event was a joint effort of Trinity Wall Street; Park 51, an Islamic community center; Tamid: The Downtown Synagogue, which meets in St. Paul’s Chapel; and Lower Manhattan Community Church.
The I...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 9, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Calcium – Forget the Supplements. Get it in Your Diet.
In this study, women were given 1000mg a day of calcium plus 400 IU of vitamin D (regardless of vitamin or dietary intake) or a placebo. Not surprisingly, there was a significant reduction in fractures in women over 70 who took their calcium as prescribed, but at the price of a 17% increase in kidney stones. For every 10,000 women taking calcium, there were two less hip fractures but 5 extra cases of kidney stones.
Constipation. Calcium can also cause constipation, so why take more than you need? (If constipation is a problem for you, try taking calcium with magnesium).
Interference with absorption of both iron and zinc...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 8, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Women's Health calcium Calcium supplements Dose food sources calcium RDA. Vitamin D Recommendation Source Type: blogs
On Abortion, Jail, Parental Responsibility & Bad Judgement
Jennifer Whalen, a 39 year old mother of three from rural Pennsylvania, is serving a 9-18 month jail sentence for purchasing and dispensing abortion-causing medications to help her teenage daughter abort an unplanned pregnancy.
The case is being used as an example of the lengths that women will go to to end a pregnancy when abortion is not immediately and freely available.
And perhaps it is.
But it’s also an example of just how easy we expect everything to be, and how those expectations are leading us to do things that are really, really stupid.
Because make no mistake. What Whalen did was stupid, irresponsible and d...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - September 25, 2014 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Abortion daughter jennifer whalen Judge misoprostol online Pa Pennsylvania pill Prison RU486 Washingtonville Source Type: blogs
