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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

And in London: Today’s Special – The Shackleton Diet...

A London restaurant has recreated a 6000 - calorie meal based on what the ill-fated Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his party would have consumed each day to maintain strength during their 1908 -’09 attempt to reach the South Pole. It includes a 20-oz steak, “pork scratchings” [I had to... Sign in to see full entry.

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