https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/health/2001854944_tea11.html
Tea’s potential health benefits have made it the new hot drink of choice
From left: Green, red, white and black teas have all been shown to have potential disease-fighting effects.
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Some like it Hot – Cool Soup News –
I see more and more references to soup and soup concepts at the moment… here is one from Cool News
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Soup News. About two years ago, Jackie Bergman of Southfield, Mass. received an e-mail that “stirred a soup appreciation movement in the Berkshires,” as reported by Dana Bowen in The New York Times. The e-mail carried the subject header, “soupnews?” and it was from someone asking about the soups Jackie used to make at a Millerton, New York, restaurant called Farm Country Cafe, which had closed back in 1998.
Jackie removed the question mark from the subject header, replied that she was still making 50 varieties of soup from her “tiny takeout store, Farm Country Soup.” Well, her reply was forwarded, and forwarded and forwarded again, “chain-letter style,” and orders for her soup started pouring in. Trouble was, Farm Country Soup is located “behind an 18th-century buggy whip factory” in a town that “is fifteen minutes by car from the nearest sizeable town, Great Barrington.” Solution was, “a friend offered an empty refrigerator at her office” as a “soup port” — or a place where Jackie’s customers could come and pickup their soup.
Darned if that idea didn’t spread, too. [Read more…] about Some like it Hot – Cool Soup News –
What Women Want
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
Towering ambition for fine dining
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
A "culinary joke" that sets you back GBP 85 pp
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
“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
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What is RSS feed?
RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the “recent changes” page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them. [Read more…] about What is RSS?
Low-Carb Crazed an overview
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