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For a fee that depends on the scale of the enterprise, the team will collaborate with chefs and tweak certain recipes to make them conform to SPE rules.
"Are you going to have little bags?" Although he expressed respect for the SPE concept — "I am pro-movements," Mr. Ripert said — he sounded unlikely to get on board.
Maybe not, considering that a few close readers of Benedict's 2007 encyclical "Spe Salvi" have noted that the Pope cites Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno to help refute the plausibility of the thesis that, with the waning of theistic belief, "man himself is now called to establish justice".
From an office on West 44th Street, around the corner from a Shake Shack, a team has been working to spread the SPE gospel of "an objective voice saying this is a healthy and delicious meal, and we have the data to prove it," said Greg Deligdisch, the vice president for marketing at Mr. Verstraeten's company, SPE Certified.
As one promotional document puts it, "SPE dishes contain more of what you need and less of what you don't".
The Manhattan restaurant (like its older sibling in Brussels) must have one of the few kitchens in the world where the chef, Jeremy Bearman, works in tandem with an in-house nutritionist, Kristy Lambrou, a registered dietitian who has veto power over any recipe that falls short of SPE standards.
For each of those SPE dishes at Danji, the chef found that he hardly had to change the recipes and he liked the idea of "making it easier for customers if they choose to be healthy".
As a young man he roamed the streets in search of trouble with a band of "painters and swordsmen who lived by the motto nec spe, nec metu, 'without hope, without fear,' " according to an early biographer, who might have been describing the opportunistic gangs bent on looting and rioting in the capitals of Europe today.
