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First wine, now coffee’s good for you!
Nothing like that first cup of the day Personally I am glad to read this: First came the fine news that red wine may help prevent Alzheimer’s. Now a 20-year study (admittedly a bit flabby) of 125.000...
View ArticleCalvin Trillin, struttin’ with some bbq
Vintage Trillin: By Meat Alone: The Best Texas BBQ in the World The first time Burka went to Lexington to check out Snow’s, he arrived just before noon. “It looked like it had never been open,” he...
View ArticleGet your doughboys here (aka Vegetarian dilemma)
Looks like a special effects lab, but it’s a bakery that makes bread in the shape (and look) of body parts. Via Biomedicine on Display, where you can find more photos as well as a link to this YouTube...
View ArticleWho Me? Dept: Me & Eating Well v Gourmet & Saveur for James Beard Award
Now this makes my day: I’ve been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award. Beard, foodees know, was a great eminence in fooddom, and won my heart years ago by stressing in one of his...
View ArticleWhen fighting insurgents, eat with the locals
Spencer Ackerman explores and explains the importance of eating the local food when fighting an insurgency: One of the things that struck me when I embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is...
View ArticleRice, alcohol, and really fast evolution in humans
In my “Atlantic article on the genetic roots of stable-versus-reactive temperaments, I noted that the key gene variants linked to these traits appeared to have developed over only the last...
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Gleanings – storms, vegetables, violence, grace, and a correction
The sky before Katrina struck, from Rense.com Correction: I been snookered. As alert reader Alex Witze pointed out, these photos were taken by stormchaser Mike Hollingshead in Nebraska and Kansas in...
View ArticleWhat glitters in the net today
I’m ‘posed to be writing, really writing (insert argument over what’s really writing in comments), but hit so many juicy bits in my morning read today I wanted to share. Here’s my eclectic mix for the...
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