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2014-04-20
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Woo gets on my nerves. Pseudoscience, false health claims, that sort of thing-- lying to people to make a profit off of them. Take one example: on Dandy's facebook page, the restaurant's chef recommends the book "The pH Miracle for Diabetes" by a fake doctor, who's been arrested many times, most recently for practicing medicine without a license. This is harmful stuff, and seeing it after I'd eaten at Dandy's made me question whether it was ethical to support that restaurant.I didn't know about
I didn't know about the silly alkaline diet before showing up at Dandy's. Apparently, some people (like the fake doctor who wrote the "miracle" cure book above) who don't know anything about science or... big word here... homeostasis have come to the false belief that you can change the pH of your blood by eating foods that produce alkaline ash in digestion. Well, science says no. Not that it would be a good idea to go mucking around with your body's careful natural balance, but some people just hate natural things so much.
Anyway, assuming that this was just a place with fresh ingredients, my wife and I came in an attempt to eat more healthily. We were both in the mood for fish. I found it a little hard to find something on the extensive menu that I thought I'd like. Everything, for a reason I found unfathomable then, seemed to have dried fruit in it. What I didn't know then is that dried fruit is "alkalizing." Of course.I settled on the sea bass with spaghetti and cheese-less pesto sauce. Of course, it had dried fruit in it too. Aside from that, I liked it. The fish was perfectly cooked, flavorful, tender and juicy. It had a nicely crisp exterior. The vegetables in the dish were also perfectly cooked: cooked-but-still-crunchy. I was slightly suspicious of the calorie counts on the menu. They were pretty low and my pasta was relatively oily.
If you eat around the dried fruit, it's pretty good. A-
My wife was set on salad and settled on the sea bass. She (like me) has a preference for a strong separation between sweet and savory. So she found the dried fruit and the sweet dressing off-putting. She still liked it, and thought the fish was good. She gives the dish a B/B+.Fruits and vegetables are great. Although the alkaline diet is full of basic misconceptions, profiteering charlatans, and silly if not dangerous claims regarding the magical health benefits of the diet, the actual recommendations of the diet are great: eat fruits and vegetables, avoid red meat and cheese. That's dietary science that's been around for decades. So let me recommend Dandy's as a place to go for healthy food.
That said, if you're like me you just can't stand health nonsense and pseudoscience. Charlatans go around telling parents that they can treat their children's autism with a gluten-free diet, or cure their diabetes with an alkaline diet. They're lying to vulnerable people for profit. Restaurants like this that both promote the health nonsense and profit off it are not healthy for our society, even if they serve healthy food. That's just my opinion.
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