| Food and drink for the soul | | Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:11:32 PM by Kate Grant | Like love and marriage in old times, food and drink go together. And unlike the former duo, they will probably last forever. Because food and drink is the essence of life, and if you choose what you eat and drink carefully, you'll enjoy life even more.  So here's the big question: What food will go with what drink? I'm not talking about wines in particular, even if a glass of wine will upgrade almost any meal.
There are plenty of other drinks that go well with food. Hamburgers and milkshake, one of childhoods greatest combinations, milk and cereal, hot chocolate and cookies in the winter, and what about soup? It's a food! Its a drink! It's superfood!
I love soups and think about them as the ultimate comfort food. When ever I feel a bit under the weather, I crave my mother's chicken soup. The combination of clear broth with carrots, squash, cabbage, parsley and the occasional matzo ball, always makes me feel good.
I know others love it too. No wonder there's a whole series of books called "chicken soup for the soul"...
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| | | Watch Food Network hit the beach on new show | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:56:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Food Network babe Giada De Laurentiis visits SoBe hot spots like Joe's Stone Crab, Casa Tua and Pacific Time Friday 9:30 p.m. on FN's premiere of Giada's Weekend Getaways. The half-hour weekly series follows Giada across the country to food-lover destinations. Info: foodnetwork.com. • Have a dish everyone raves about? Now's your chance to have it featured on Chef Oliver Saucy's TV show, The Secrets of Cafe Maxx. Three 18-and-over winners will be chosen, one from each category (appetizer, entree, dessert). Chef Saucy, who owns Pompano Beach restaurant Cafe Maxx, is looking for original or family recipes only. Tell him how long you have been making it, its origin and any special significance. E-mail to info@cafemaxx.com or mail to Recipe Contest, 2601 E. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach, FL, 33062.... | |
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| | | Drinks licence poser for takeaway | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:54:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | A takeaway owner from Leyland has turned down the chance to open his shop later after a range of conditions meant he would not be able to serve fizzy drinks and food to under-18s after 9pm. The owner of Montanas takeaway in Fox Lane, Leyland, asked South Ribble Borough Council for permission to stay open from 4pm until 1am under new licensing laws. His present closing time is 11pm. However, a strict range of conditions imposed by the council meant shop owner, Zuhoor Mujahid, would have to ask for proof of age for youths after 9pm. .... | |
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| | | Counterprotesters offer food, drinks to visitors | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:57:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Trotter's church, the Lutheran Church of Hope, 924 Jordan Creek Parkway, was one of six West Des Moines churches targeted by a Kansas group's anti-gay pickets this weekend. At services a few weeks ago, Pastor Mike Housholder asked for volunteers to serve breakfast to the pickets. He wanted churchgoers to follow the example Jesus set and serve others, he said. "To people who offer us hate, we want to offer them love," he said. Trotter volunteered. After first service Sunday, she joined about 25 churchgoers who held up a tall cross and proceeded through the parking lot toward Jordan Creek Parkway. Group members carried a cooler of food and drinks, which they set on a table on the sidewalk. As the pickets continued to chant, the group silently turned around and re-entered the church.... | |
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| | | Red Bull leads US energy drink market | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:55:12 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON - The kick from caffeine has a growing number of consumers jumping into energy drinks -- soft drinks spiked with nutritional aids and stimulants -- despite warnings from health professionals. In the US alone, consumers gulped down 3.5 billion dollars worth of energy drinks in 2005, an 80 per cent rise from the prior year, and growth is still strong, according to industry journal Beverage Digest. And the market for energy drinks is also surging in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, according to the industry. The market is led by Red Bull, made by an Austrian-based private company that started over 20 years ago and entered the US market in 1997. Red Bull sold 2.5 billion cans of its drink in 2005 worldwide, and has a 37.4 share of the US market, according to the trade journal, compared with 22.3 per cent for its nearest rival, Monster Energy Drink.... | |
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| | | Fizzy drinks increase risk of pancreatic cancer | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:59:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | The high consumption of sweetened food and drink increases the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet. A heavy intake of fizzy drinks, creamed fruit and sugar in coffee are three common ways of increasing the risk. Pancreatic cancer is a very serious form of cancer that is possibly caused when the pancreas produces heightened levels of insulin as a consequence of upset glucose metabolism. A well-known way of increasing insulin production is to eat a lot of sugar. Scientists have now, for the first time, shown that the consumption of sweetened food and drink affects a person's chances of developing pancreatic cancer. The study began in 1997 when scientists ran a dietary survey of almost 80,000 healthy women and men.... | |
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| | | Shop serves food, drinks with local ties | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:55:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Unique among the already eclectic shops and eateries downtown is Old City Java, 109 S. Central St., across from Hannahs and the Red Iguana. Were the only venue in town that does only all-ages shows, owner Renee Sanabria said. They have live music on Fridays and Saturdays, and you can listen to hip hop and soul on Thursday nights. You can also buy CDs of recent performers there for reasonable prices. But its not just the nightlife that makes Old City Java different. Lets start with the food and then go for the drinks. For breakfast, I found the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich to be great for egg lovers. The bread is soft and warm but deliciously flaky on the outside, as if it is slightly toasted. This plus a cluster of about 10 grapes and four big slices of orange costs only $4.95.... | |
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| | | Brown calls for a global alliance to defend free trade | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 2:57:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | GORDON BROWN has called for a new global alliance of governments, business leaders and public figures to fight the reactionary ?Luddites? opposed to globalisation and break the ?dangerous global log jam? that is threatening world trade. The Chancellor, writing today in The Times, challenges leaders to show the determination necessary to stop the world slipping back into a new era of protectionism, comparing it to the effort needed to rebuild the international order after the Second World War. .... | |
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| | | Garfield's moves into new-look food court | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 1:03:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | As part of renovations to the Capital City Mall, the first of the mall's anchor restaurants, Garfield's Restaurant and Pub, opened Monday. The chain restaurant, known for its casual food and drinks, is based in Oklahoma. Since 1984, Garfield's has expanded to 59 dinner house mall restaurants in 19 states -- the closest ones in Selingsgrove and State College. "We go into markets where we know there is the demographic, and we go into areas we honestly feel we fit into the community," said Mark A. Ingle, director of operations for Eateries Inc., which oversee's Garfield's. With the changes happening at the mall and the food court relocating to near Sears, it seemed like the ideal time for Garfield's to open in Camp Hill, Ingle said.... | |
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| | | New rules on TV junk food ads 'too weak' | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 6:58:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | Health campaigners claim new rules to be published restricting the advertising of junk food to children on television will be too weak to halt the soaring levels of obesity. Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, is finalising a series of recommendations, which it will present to the government, on how to limit the number of adverts seen by children for products that contain unhealthy high levels of fat, salt and sugar. But campaign groups such as the National Heart Forum, National Children's Bureau and food lobby group Sustain hit out yesterday at Ofcom's expected decision to reject widespread calls for all junk food commercials to be banned before the 9pm children's viewing 'watershed'. 'We are expecting a set of proposals that don't go far enough to tackle the crisis that we have in children's diet and reduce diet-related ill-health, such as obesity,' said Richard Watts of Sustain.... | |
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| | | Petrol price has fallen, so why is food so dear? | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:57:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | AUSTRALIAN consumers are paying more because the drop in fuel prices is not being passed on. A jump in the price of anything from eggs to airline tickets was blamed on the world cost of oil. But, while petrol prices have fallen by at least 40 cents a litre, consumers are still paying a premium for many goods and services. And economists believe the grab for bigger profits will more than likely lead to a rise in interest rates when the Reserve Bank meets on November 7. CommSec chief equities economist Craig James said: "Prices seem to be quick going up but it is much slower for them to come down. "Fresh food is certainly the area that has been rising because of higher transport costs." Many items such as bread and eggs had increased in price by more than double the average rate of inflation.... | |
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