“Margarine’s now a ‘spread’ and butter can come from the fridge soft enough to spread on your toast. But when you’re faced with so many different spreads in the supermarket dairy cabinet it’s hard to know which is the healthiest.”
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“As millions of Americans mark Super Bowl Sunday with friends and family, making it the second highest day of food consumption in the United States after Thanksgiving, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is offering some practical food safety tips to help prevent foodborne illnesses. ‘While football has the ‘two-minute’ …
“In Newton’s time and beyond, you couldn’t discuss meat eating or its rejection without biting into some tough theology, and Tristram Stuart’s sprawling ‘The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times’ (buy it on Amazon) shows just how hard it was to decipher God’s dietary …
“Amanda Kelso was a 12-year veteran of vegetarianism when she went AWOL. She blames pork. ‘Bacon was a temptress to me,’ she says in her 30 Days of Pork series on photo-sharing site Flickr.”
violet Originally uploaded by megamommatron. Found this funny set of pix on Flickr: “oh, the wretched. the worst thing about this whole debacle, as my husband later informed me, is that i TOLD Violet to ‘go play with the peanut butter.’ she liked to roll the jar around in the …
“Have you been naughty? Or have you been nice? Inquiring Santas want to know. When it comes to wine-related Christmas gifts, the world is your oyster. Champagne? Check. Burgundy? Check. Wine books? Check. Wine paraphernalia? Check. Where to start? As with a dinner party, let’s start with champagne.”
“An advertising campaign for carbonated beverages advised consumers in 1956 to ‘Enjoy Sparkling Soft Drinks!’ and ‘Life is Great When You Carbonate!’ Soft drinks were being marketed as a digestive aid that helped the body absorb nutrients, maintain a balanced diet, and cure hangovers. As early as 1930, can manufacturers …
Someone else turned their excellent website into a book. Huzzah! Check out Clotilde’s ‘Chocolate & Zucchini: Chocolate & Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen‘: “As those of you who subscribe to the C&Z newsletter already know, my upcoming cookbook is now available for pre-order on Amazon (and on Amazon.fr, …
One example: “Funky Fries | Introduced in 2002, Ore-Ida’s frozen french fries were offered in new forms: chocolate-flavored, cinnamon-flavored, ring-shaped and colored blue. Promoted as ‘not what a potato is supposed to be,’ they were — perhaps inevitably — pulled from store shelves a year later, due to ‘disappointing’ sales.”
Thursday is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., so we’re going to take a few days off to relax. And eat. And drink. And relax. And eat. Meg Hourihan over at megnut has been rounding up a lot of Thanksgiving-themed tips so click on over to her site if you need …