Cabbagetown Café may be gone, but the taste lingers on
Cabbagetown Café may be gone, but the taste lingers on
I was delighted to learn that Julie Jordan '71 continues to work her culinary magic in the Ithaca environs ("Flesh Is Weak," Currents, July/August 2011). Many is the time during my undergraduate years that I enjoyed her scrumptious vegetarian fare at Cabbagetown Café. Indeed, Cabbagetown was among my favorite Ithaca restaurants, and during one Reunion visit I was surprised (and saddened) to find it had closed.
Reading Beth Saulnier's profile, I channeled the taste of Julie's brown-bowl salads and thick wheat bread, served in Cabbagetown's cozy space. And what better place to enjoy weekend brunch before hunkering down to a day of studying? My copy of Wings of Life may be falling apart and stained, but it will serve as a reminder of Cabbagetown's role in my Cornell experience. Bon appetit, Julie!
I very much enjoyed reading "Flesh Is Weak." Last August, after having four stents placed in three arteries of my heart that had blockages, I attended a cardiac rehab course at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The course included exercises and lectures. At the lecture by Jill Edwards, a certified nutrition educator, I learned that the diet that everyone, including people with heart disease, should be eating was one where 80 percent is vegetables, fruits, legumes, and nuts—with no dairy products and no processed foods.
I have become an advocate for such a diet, but have had little success converting others. It is amazing how few Americans follow such a diet when there is so much agreement among experts that it wards off disease and prolongs life. In Sarasota we have one restaurant called Veg, which specializes in vegetarian food and seafood, and a few others that have a good selection of such items. Ethnic restaurants, such as Thai restaurants, have good vegetarian choices, too—but, otherwise, it's still an uphill battle.
Ed. Note: Fuentes is a speaker on women's rights issues and author of the memoir Eat First—You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter.
The Last Word
Each issue of Cornell Alumni Magazine continues to present an engaging, relevant, and thoughtful view of life on campus as well as Cornell's standing and impact well beyond it in a manner that is timely, candid, and fresh. Surely this level of consistent excellence reflects well on your extraordinary masthead stability in these very changeable times. Those names—Roberts, Saulnier, Furst, Herzog, Tregaskis, Green, Robinette, Downey—must represent a collective century or more of good work, and I salute you for it.
Ed. Note: Edward Hershey is a former director of publications and marketing at Cornell. He was also the public address announcer for Big Red men's and women's basketball games for a decade.
Correction—
July/August 2012
Correspondence, page 6: In response to a letter from H. William Fogle '70, we published a comment from University Counsel James Mingle that read: "I can confirm that at the same October 2010 meeting at which the Board approved the University's submission of its proposal in response to the City of New York's Request for Proposals, the Board also approved the proposed alliance between Cornell University and the Technion, which would be a critical component of the CornellNYC Tech campus." The correct date of the meeting was October 2011.