Trans Fats and cooking

Here's two excellent articles about the ways the seemingly-simple goal of removing trans-fats from our diets have affected everyday products. One is by Corby Kummer, one of my favorite food writers ever, and the other is from the New York Times.

I like this Altman quote

This from an article about an apparently Altman-like tribute lunch held on what would have been Robert Altman's 82nd birthday:

Mr. Altman’s passions — a bottomless disgust for the suits in the movie business, a capacious love of actors and a desire to tell the next story — came up in speech after speech, as did his tendency for breathtaking directness.
Paul Thomas Anderson, the director of “Magnolia,” who spent time on the set of “A Prairie Home Companion,” Mr. Altman’s last film, said Mr. Altman would listen carefully to the suggestions of others and then say, “Let’s not do that.”