41.   In Europe, food can only be irradiated under license, and the treated food has to be marked.

42.   Indian food has a reputation for requiring long cooking times.

43.   In the new Chinatown, the food has to be that good, the Chus say.

44.   It survives in the persistent belief that food can have aphrodisiac properties.

45.   Kosher law comes from the biblical concept that food has a spiritual as well as a physical relevance and that it holds body and soul together.

46.   Like pills that treat a chronic illness, most functional foods have to be used several times a day for weeks to get the promised benefit.

47.   Many foods have both.

48.   Most fat-free foods have nearly as many calories as their full-fat counterparts.

49.   Not easily, in part because the food has such a high-fat image.

50.   Once a food has a tarnished reputation, though, it can be hard to rehabilitate it.