New But Not Very Nutrition Minded

The new Food section is useful and interesting, but very fat. You know the pulse points with “Quick Fix,” “Kitchen Table” and “Back to Basics.”

However, your circulation department and your readers’ circulatory systems will have to work overtime to keep up with the damage caused when your readers and their arteries collapse after eating your recommended foods: apple pie, 27 grams of fat; carnitas, 44 grams of fat; ahi menu, 21 grams of fat; potato casserole, 23 grams of fat.

I would appreciate interesting, low-fat, healthy cooking as the norm and not as the exception. The “Low-Fat Cooking” column featuring Almond Brown Rice Breakfast Drink just does not make my socks go up and down. In the past, you have run articles about substituting pureed fruit in place of fat in baked goods. More of these ideas, please.

On the other hand, how about a “Calories Be Damned” section. Pull out all the stops and have fun with something very decadent every week. It is appropriate as a special column, but not as a representation of the philosophy of nutritional eating of the Food Section of the Los Angeles Times.

CAROL LANG

Norwalk