Last Sunday, Missy made a healthy version of pumpkin muffins. She substituted some sugar fortified with fiber for the regular sweetener. As a result, her pastries came out a little too heavy and quite filling. Missy got a stomach ache after eating one. I told her that she made the pumpkin muffin equivalent of the hobbits' lumbas bread from "The Lord of the Rings." I bet the gossipy, competitive food bloggers profiled in The New York Times wouldn't appreciate being offered lumbas bread by a friend. They're too busy trying to score a free meal at Alain Ducasse's restaurant or get hired as a restaurant reviewer with a corporate AmEx card at a major newspaper. I'm content writing about hobbits, elves, gnomes and macaroni and cheese for The Food and Music Club. Then again, next week I will make my semiannual trip to Las Vegas to cover the expansive apparel trade shows there and flex my corporate credit card at eateries helmed by Ducasse, Joel Robuchon, Nobu Matsuhisa and Thomas Keller.
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