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Cooking with Phasers domain
As part of the economic austerity measures put in place by the Alien Hive Mind that runs the planet, the cookingwithphasers.com domain has now expired, replaced by phasers.celsius1414.com. Never read the essays? Now’s your chance! Perhaps the only characteristic common … Continue reading
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Take with a grain of salt
Scientific American: It’s Time to End the War on Salt This week a meta-analysis of seven studies involving a total of 6,250 subjects in the American Journal of Hypertension found no strong evidence that cutting salt intake reduces the risk … Continue reading
St Patrick Scottish? Whisky Irish?
guardian.co.uk: ‘Irish whiskey: the spirit of St Patrick’ Go into any pub this St Patrick’s day, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the scourge of Ireland’s snakes was born in St James’ Gate, so cannily has a certain Dublin brewery … Continue reading
Tagged drink, food, Guinness, Ireland, scotch, Scotland, St Patrick, whiskey, whisky
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Snakes and Lattes
The Torontoist (from, oddly, Toronto) reports on a great idea for a new business: “New Board Game Café Welcomes You, But Not Your Laptop”
Ben Castanie’s new Koreatown café, at 600 Bloor Street West, just east of Palmerston Avenue, will emphatically not have free Wi-Fi. In fact, laptops and their attendant air of isolation are completely counter to what Castanie is trying to do. “I just don’t want people sitting staring at their screens,” he says. Then he starts explaining the system of categorization he’d used to organize his café’s library of 1,500-plus board games.
Snakes and Lattes, as the café is (pretty cleverly) known, opened for business earlier today.
Closer to home, I’m pretty sure Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside has a selection of board games for customers, not to mention books. And free WiFi. ;)
Continue readingBrew your tea or die!
Well, sort of. ;) Researchers have found that tea companies have been over-touting the health benefits of their tea products (big surprise, I know). Turns out the antioxidants in bottled tea are no where near the amount available in old-fashioned brewed tea.
NPR: “Bottled Tea Comes Up Short In Antioxidant Tests”.
Reseachers [sic] tested bottled teas for antioxidants called polyphenols and found that most brands contain very little of them.
“Out of 49 samples, half of the bottle teas contain less then 10 milligrams of polyphenols,” says Shiming Li, a natural products chemist at WellGen, a company that’s working to develop foods for medical use.
A cup of home-brewed green or black tea has 50-150 milligrams of polyphenols. So you’d have to drink between 5 and 20 of those pint-size bottles of tea to get the same amount of antioxidants. That’s a lot of tea.
So, yeah — take a few minutes and brew your tea. Or let the sun do it, like my wife Denyse has been doing lately.
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(Photo: “Disney – Mad Hatter Rides the Tea Cups” by Joe Penniston.)
Continue readingThe secret world of Trader Joe’s
Fortune Magazine reveals all about one of our favorite stores, “Inside the secret world of Trader Joe’s”, and based on what I read I can understand now why the core group of employees at our local one has stayed the same for years now.
Continue readingApple’s retail stores aren’t the only place where lines form these days. It’s 7:30 on a July morning, and already a crowd has gathered for the opening of Trader Joe’s newest outpost, in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The waiting shoppers chat about their favorite Trader Joe’s foods, and a woman in line launches into a monologue comparing the retailer’s West Coast and East Coast locations. Another customer suggests that the chain will be good for Chelsea, even though the area is already brimming with places to buy groceries, including Whole Foods and several upscale food boutiques.
But Trader Joe’s is no ordinary grocery chain. It’s an offbeat, fun discovery zone that elevates food shopping from a chore to a cultural experience. It stocks its shelves with a winning combination of low-cost, yuppie-friendly staples (cage-free eggs and organic blue agave sweetener) and exotic, affordable luxuries — Belgian butter waffle cookies or Thai lime-and-chili cashews — that you simply can’t find anyplace else.
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