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Amazing but true: the region surrounding this city in southern France, whose robust cuisine embraces foie gras, fatty duck, preserved goose, chewy red wines and Armagnac brandy, has the lowest rate of heart disease in the entire country. And the French as a nation, despite their substantial lunches and dinners (wine included), are only one-third as likely to die of heart attacks as Americans are.
. . . AND THE WORST
Gourmet magazine's sugar-cookie recipe. In its July issue, the magazine mistakenly substituted oil of wintergreen, which in substantial doses can cause nausea and vomiting, for nontoxic wintergreen extract. Gourmet hastily mailed a warning notice and correction to subscribers; no casualties were reported.