I ate at a chain restaurant the other day and was pleasantly surprised that their dessert menu listed the calories for each selection. For example: the Italian Sorbetto was listed as having 150 calories; the Vanilla Gelato, 210; etc., etc. The most calorific was the Lemon Passion Cake ("Citrus cake in sweet cream lightly topped with lemon mousse and whipped cream") at 570 calories. It was sort of fun, trying to choose a dessert based not only on name and the glorious verbal overload (the...
