Topic: food - on June 14, 2009 at 1:14:00 PM CEST
Top 10 Innovative Ice Cream Flavors
Occasionally, we all scream for ice cream—whether while running after the neighborhood’s Pop Goes the Weasel-blaring truck or on one of the sweltering days of summer. But when’s the last time an ice cream flavor made you want to scream? The extraordinary examples below, including a Blue Cheese and Caramelized Shallot creation and a Curry Carrot concoction, are so unusual in their ingredients and flavor pairings that they’re sure to provoke some sort of reaction from you—whether of pleasure, confusion or just plain brain freeze. That’s the scoop; now, dig in!
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Topic: food - on June 14, 2009 at 1:11:00 PM CEST
Pizza Boss - I Want One Of Those
Man's obsession with power tools has finally spilled over into the kitchen and the Pizza Boss may just be the manliest pizza slicer you'll ever own. It's shaped like a circular saw (the manliest tool in the garden shed second only to the drill, which takes first place based solely on the fact that it looks a bit like a laser gun) and will make short work of your freshly baked pizza, or any delivery where the restaurant have made a pig's ear of the slicing process.
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Topic: food - on May 19, 2009 at 11:12:00 AM CEST
Swiss Chocolate Knife Gift Set
The Swiss Chocolate Knife is made of the finest Swiss chocolate, and is filled with hazelnut praline.
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Topic: food - on May 10, 2009 at 2:02:00 PM CEST
Heart-Shaped Watermelons Show How Love Grows
Heart-shaped watermelons are just the latest twist on Japan's love affair with the juicy green & red fruit. I've written about square watermelon (below) grown in special forms that make the fruit easier to pack, stack & store but these "lovely" melons turn that concept on its head while speaking to the heart.
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Topic: food - on April 11, 2009 at 9:45:00 AM CEST
BaconCamp
Inspired by last year's creative cooking competition and exhibition called CupcakeCamp and in solidarity with the growing popularity of events (see the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational), the first BaconCamp took place over the weekend. It was a well-organized and smoothly run event that simultaneously demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of notoriety and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme.
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Topic: food - on March 8, 2009 at 12:24:00 PM CET
Nestle Sues Company That Came Up A Product 15 Years Before Nestle Patented It...
Today's story of patent insanity comes to us courtesy of Wysong, a small natural pet foods company that came up with a method to put probiotics in foods in the early 80s. The company used the technique to sell pet food biscuits that supposedly have certain health benefits. As its products became more popular, the company saw copycats come into the market, but figured it helped everyone (including the pets), and there was nothing wrong with that. Then... fifteen years later, Nestle, the owner of Purina, happened to patent the very same process and, a few years later, sued Wysong, demanding royalties all the way back to when it got its patent.
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Topic: food - on February 12, 2009 at 1:08:00 PM CET
Schwarzenegger Super Cows
Myostatin is a protein that, along with its associated gene, limits the growth of muscle tissue in some mammals. The Belgian Blue cattle breed has a natural mutation of the gene associated with myostatin that supresses the protein, resulting in lean and heavily muscled cattle.
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Topic: food - on January 30, 2009 at 1:23:00 PM CET
HISTORY OF THE TEQUILA EXPRESS "LA LEYENDA"
Wherever and whenever one mentions the word tequila or talk about the music of mariachi or a sport known as charreria, people inmediatly that you are talking about Mexico. Thus, in order to exalt, strengthen and vivify these three pillars of the mexican identity, the Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism of Guadalajara conceived and created in 1994 what is known today as the Annual International Meeting of Mariachi and Charreria.
Within the framework of the 4th edition of this meeting, the tourist journey “Tequila Express, La Leyenda” came to life. It’s a journey in train to one of the zones of Jalisco where Agave (from wich tequila is extracted) proliferates. The trip culminates in the guided tour of the ranch called Hacienda San José del Refugio where the tequila Herradura is produced. This hacienda is located in the municipality of Amatitan, Jalisco, Mexico.
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Topic: food - on December 8, 2008 at 10:49:58 AM CET
Water availability - hard times ahead
Wastage of water resource, lack of sufficient reservoirs, increasing population and melting glaciers will be leading Pakistan towards a water scarce country. The country faces challenges like better management of Indus Basin Waters, addressing strategic issues and meeting the resource gap - all equally important for a secure future.
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Topic: food - on November 22, 2008 at 2:43:15 PM CET
YOU CAN JOIN THE ARMY IF YOU TAKE ECSTASY - BUT NOT IF YOU'RE A VEGAN
THIN people and vegans are being allowed to dodge national conscription by the Swiss army – but it will take users of cannabis and Ecstasy.
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Topic: food - on November 13, 2008 at 2:08:30 PM CET
Wasabi Gumballs
Like a ninja, wasabi sneaks up on you. With ninjas, one moment you are partying down and the next moment you are dead in 15 different ways. With wasabi, one moment you’re innocently enjoying some nigiri, the next moment you’re squinting, wincing and reaching for the sake.
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Topic: food - on November 12, 2008 at 2:14:39 PM CET
PALMÖL-PRODUKTION - Greenpeace greift Öko-Siegel an
Gewaltige Regenwald-Flächen fallen der schnell wachsenden Palmöl-Produktion zum Opfer. Hersteller und Umweltschützer feiern jetzt ein neues Öko-Siegel als mögliche Lösung des Dilemmas. Doch das Projekt wird heftig angegriffen - ausgerechnet von Greenpeace.
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