- Fat City is offering up a few pointers for decoding food labels. In addition to just looking at the picture of course.
Fear not fierious readers, a response post will be forthcoming. However, in the interim, those of you who enjoy the over the top caricature that is Guy Fieri can bask in this beautiful desktop background.
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While Rachael Ray laughs at her own ridiculous stories and Giada's atrocious pronunciations grate on our very being, Guy seems very natural and genuine. No tablescapes, annoying flirtations or awkward pauses, just plain, peroxide naturalness. We'd like to have a beer with him, and assume he'd probably be similar to the Guy we see on TV.
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Ladies, you may ask, what is considered "moderate"? As defined by the study, no more than two drinks in one day.
A serving of wine is 5 ounces, beer is 12 ounces and liquor is 1.5 ounces, but if you really want to stay thin, stay with the Cabernet... We'll drink to that!
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1) Electrolux Design Concept "Heart of the home" animation
Imagine a future kitchen that requires neither pots nor pans for cooking. At DesignBoost, Electrolux revealed a shape-shifting, all-in-one cooking station concept. Heart of the Home works as a kitchen table, a cooking surface and bar all in one. Its design calls for an "intelligent, amorphous, interchangeable cooking surface that adapts to users needs." This video shows the cook selecting a recipe, then marking an area with their hand to show how large the cooking area should be. After pressing down on the table's surface, it creates an indentation that works as a pot or pan. The temperature and cooking time is selected with a few finger swipes.
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A New Jersey dude supposedly stuffed the bagel sandwich with the extra ingredient (his own body hair), after the order was placed by a cop that had previously arrested him. After receiving the "special order," the cops came back to the restaurant for another special order: an arrest of the chef, Ryan Burke, whom they suspected had sprinkled his essence onto the delivery.
After spending a half-day in jail, Mr. Burke was fired from his job.
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English fare gets the same bad rap, mostly due to the greasy bangers and mash that are so pervasive at Americanized British pubs. (And shame on a certain British pub in Idaho for showing NASCAR in the lounge one afternoon and refusing my repeated requests to turn the channel to a pivotal English Premier League soccer match.)
Anyway, back to Irish food. To understand Irish cuisine, it's important to understand the history of the land itself. Like in most cultures, Ireland has a strong agrarian history, dating back to the 7th century when monks first documented agricultural and foraging practices in voluminous secular texts. The potato wasn't even buried beneath the verdant landscape at that time. Staples of the early Irish diet included barley, oats, wheat and rye, most of which came in the form of sloppy porridge (gruel, if you will) and, on special occasions, flatbreads and cakes.
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A Kansas City Royals fan claims that a flying hot dog hit his eye during a game in September of last year and caused permanent damage. In his defense, he was sitting six rows back from the dug out after Slugger, the Royals mascot did a slick, behind-the-back maneuver, striking the unfortunate gentleman right in the peeper. Ok, so it's a bit of a tough sell, but he'll have to sell it to a judge in court. John Coomer, the injured one-eyed fan is suing the baseball team for $25,000 in damages after he underwent two eye surgeries to correct his hot dog injury.
The moral of this story: never underestimate the power of a weenie.
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Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza
There's a scene in Mario Puzo's The Godfather in which Clemenza, having just overseen the assassination of Paulie in the back of his car, says to his partner, "Leave the gun. Take the cannolis." It figures a rough mobster like Clemenza would turn his thoughts to food immediately after whacking an old friend. Death, after all, is common. But dessert -- now that's something special. More >>
Dallas
Bailey's Prime Plus, Park Lane
"Wow. Looks kind of like a casino," I said to my BFF (best food friend) as we approached the entrance. "Or a strip club." An upscale one at that. It wasn't that the place looked sleazy--more grand than gaudy. The good news is, once we stepped inside, it turned out Bailey's Prime Plus, Park Lane (not to be confused with Bailey's two other metroplex locations) was sans the predictable "good ol' boy" Dallas steakhouse snootiness. More >>
To the untrained eye, it might seem eerily similar to a refrigerator, but it's so much more. If this glorious 90-second unveiling from the mid-50s isn't enough to convince you it's time to throw out your stainless steel piece of crap and start hitting up antique stores in search of a Kelvinator, you've got some serious self-restraint.
Do you already have an unrefrigerated banana bin? No? Well what are you waiting for?