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Freud famously wondered, “What does a woman want?” He never figured it out, but many business owners have-and are making money in the process. What women want right now is attention to detail in product design and service; [Read more…] about What Women Want

Grand opening preparation at New York’s Time Warner Center, will feature six restaurants.

About a New York minute. The soon-to-be-unveiled feasting options are audacious even by the standards of a city that calls itself the restaurant capital of the world. Five of the country’s top chefs and a rising international star will dish out fare at six upscale restaurants designed by the biggest names in the business – all under one roof.

https://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2004-02-03-time-warner-main_x.htm

Restaurant revue summary from The Restaurant Magazine

The Fat Duck, Malik’s, The Anchor & Hope, Rhodes Restaurant, Restaurant Martin Wishart

The Daily Telegraph’s Jan Moir got to sample the now three-star molecular gastronomy of The Fat Duck this week. Beginning with what she described as a “culinary joke,” Moir was served two squares of jelly – one orange, one beetroot coloured – which turned out to be of blood orange and golden beetroot. She found the food “oddly masculine”, appealing to “chefs and industry professionals.” She admitted it was “technically brilliant” but “challenging”. The £85 tasting menu began with a “gummy” selection of amuse dishes: green tea and lime meringue, a single oyster in a pool of horseradish cream and passion fruit jelly, a teaspoon of mustard ice cream in a pool of red cabbage, and quail jelly with pea puree. Next, a spoon of snail porridge, a slice of poached and glazed foie gras that “melt[ed] on the tongue, not in an entirely pleasant way.” Savoury ices followed, with Moir finding the experience “actively horrible”. The textures were “relentless” and “pappy” and Moir was desperate for “a proper lunch”.

“No fat, low fat – that’s gone. No carb, low carb – that’s going to be gone, too,” says Pratt, author of SuperFoods Rx (William Morrow). “The message should be, focus on healthy carbs, whole grains as well as legumes. You’re going to be full long before you get fat.” [Read more…] about "No fat, low fat – that's gone. No carb, low carb

We are a country of the carb-crazed. Robert Atkins, the protein prophet who started this trend, may be gone, but his low-carb diet plan lives on in an ever-expanding industry of imitators, spinoffs and products. Not only have major fast-food chains joined the bun-less, bread-less trend

[Read more…] about Low-Carb Crazed an overview

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary (or Really Simple Syndication, take your pick). In a nutshell, RSS is a new way for people who publish content online to notify people interested in that content whenever fresh content is made available online.

By notifying people interested in your content, as well as Web sites that collect and package content announcements (called aggregators), you are “feeding” them your content ? hence the termRSS feed.

WHY RSS IS BETTER THAN E-MAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS. Just about everyone who publishes content online has some sort of e-mail announcement list. I do, too. Still, RSS is a great complement to e-mail announcements because it doesn’t clutter people’s in-boxes, it’s easier to manage for recipients who get a lot of news online, it’s spam-proof, and it’s easier to manage than an e-mail list.

While not a lot of people know about RSS right now, it’s getting popular quickly. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next couple of years RSS becomes as widely known and used as the Web and e-mail.

Read the full explanation at

https://blog.contentious.com/archives/000038.html