Mediterranean diet and Hazlitt

Catching up on my reading and podcasts.
The New York Times had a fun piece on the Mediterranean Diet in the Magazine section.  The diet was "discovered" by a Scandinavian couple who were looking for heart healthy foods.  They found, and this was right after the second world war, that Mediterraneans had a very low incidence of heart disease.  So they credited the diet: olive oil, wine, fish, etc.  In fact, most people could not afford those foods after the war; they were lucky if they had some lentils.  Poverty prevented any heart disease.  Today, the fattest population on the Mediterranean is in Beirut, Lebanon.  Their favorite restaurant is a chain of  American style diners.  Their favorite dish is cheese fries with a malted.  I'm thinking, maybe the terrorists are hungry.  Let's give them cheese fries and malteds with an after dinner smoke.  They'd never climb back up those mountains.  More McDonald's and Marlboro's for export.

The podcasts I've been listening to are from the BBC:  Classic poetry aloud,  Curiosity aroused and In Our Time with Melvin Bragg.   I particularly liked Melvin Bragg's pieces.  They are each about 50 minutes long. 
I especially liked the conversation dated "08.04.2010".  It's about William  Hazlitt, 1778-1830.  Bragg and three academics discuss Hazlitt's life, philosophy and criticism.  It is an extraordinary  life comprising painting, theology, philosophy and literary criticism.  When Hazlitt was working on a local paper, the theater critic took sick and Hazlitt was sent to review 'The Merchant of Venice" starring Edmund Kean.  They were both now about 20 years old.  Shakespeare at this time, 1798 was not well respected because his plays had been abridged and plagiarized and the real work was generally unknown.  Hazlitt was blown away by what he called the "gusto" of the work and the acting.  "Gusto" is his phase for a protean genius that is ego free.  Shakespeare and Kean have gusto because they can inhabit multiple characters, sympathetically.  He also reviewed Kean in Coriolanus.  Hazlitt believed Wordsworth was simply genius because there is ego in his work.   Hazlitt wrote so wonderfully of the show that interest in Shakespeare was revived.  Jane Austen wrote a friend that she was heartsick because she could not get a ticket.
Naturally, I went looking for a book, perhaps a collection of Hazlitt's essays.  They say he wrote on everything and his piece on boxing is the best piece on boxing ever written.  Nothing at the Strand, Shakespeare and Co. nor the N.Y.U. bookstore.  Amazon?  a $10 book with $7 in shipping fees and $5 in handling fees and probably $10 in billing fees.  You have to pay for them to post and add the fees.