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Some of L.A.’s finest restaurants are putting the happy back in happy hour with sophisticated menus of appetizers, sandwiches – even desserts – for drop-in, no-reservations, just-after-work dining. Hours and setups vary, but most offer a special menu of low-priced small-plate selections – the same-quality food that’s on the menu at higher prices a few hours later – and some drink specials.

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– 01/04/2004 – Is Big Red the next functional food fad? Scientists in the US claim the natural flavours found in the chewing gum brand manufactured by gum giant Wrigley’s could beat the bacteria that causes bad breath.

Their findings suggest a new inroad for the food industry into the growing functional food fad as well as a challenge to the dominant probiotic dairy products market in Europe, currently worth around €1billion. [Read more…] about Gum to beat bad breath the next functional food fad
Gum to beat bad breath the next functional food fad

VODKA mixers. Hangover remedies. Serious jolts of caffeine. However they are used, so-called energy drinks have quickly become the elixirs of choice for teenagers nagers and young adults too hip for espressos, colas and fancy teas.

The drinks – which consist mostly of sugar, water and caffeine, but also a variety of vitamins, herbs and supposedly energy-enhancing extracts – have overtaken bottled water as the fastest-growing segment of the beverage industry. Beverage companies are rushing into this $1 billion market to grab share from Red Bull, the pioneer in the field, whose drinks went on sale in the United States seven years ago. And they need no other lure than young consumers’ willingness to buy 8-ounce cans of energy drinks for at least two times the cost of a 12-ounce cola. [Read more…] about Revitalizing Drinks Are Also Pepping Up Sales

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/31/dining/31YEAR.html

TUCKER SHAW, 35, is a writer who grew up in Denver and went away to Maine for college and moved to New York in 1991 for the reasons people do. Since Jan. 1, he has photographed everything he has eaten.

He has taken more than 600 photographs so far, in restaurants, in the kitchens of friends, on street corners and in the dim light of his own home at 11 at night, when he often has a final bowl of cereal before bed. Taken as a package, and looked at in order, the pictures are dizzying in their effect. They could be postcards from a Martian, lost on Earth and struggling to give order to his experience.

“It’s amazing to me how much food there is in New York,” Mr. Shaw said last week. “It’s like we’re eating in Rome, before the fall.”