supper at the best table: the low-gluten gospel
The tendency at E.T.A. is to take the entree and unless it’s a wet entree to take wheat bread and make it a sandwich, for the extra carbs. [...] The Academy’s wheat bread is bicycled in by guys in Birkenstock sandals from Bread & Circus Quality Provisions in Cambridge, because it’s got to be not only sugarless but low in glutens, which Tavis and Schtitt believe promote torpor and excess mucus.
Context
The diet is doctrine, administered from the top. Everything's turned into a sandwich "for the extra carbs," and the very bread is spec'd "not only sugarless but low in glutens, which Tavis and Schtitt believe promote torpor and excess mucus." The players' fuel is engineered against two enemies of performance — sluggishness and mucus — which means even the loaf is a training decision. Body-as-machine runs all the way down to what the machine is permitted to be built out of.