In 1970, the average American ate about 16.4 pounds of food a week, or 2.3 pounds daily. By 2006, the average intake grew by an additional 1.8 pounds a week.
And the big excitement last week? The possibility of being able to take a pill that will fool your body into thinking it has exercised? Now, where did I put that remote?
I've worked with some first-class prima donnas in my day, but this guy has them all beat:
One of Britain's leading restaurant critics has been left red faced after an obscene 1,000-word email rant he sent to his editors emerged on the internet.
Their crime? Changing a single word in one of his reviews.
Giles Coren, son of the humourist Alan Coren, was angry that his phrase “where to go for a nosh” had been replaced with “where to go for nosh”, with the penultimate word removed.
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If you still haven't decided between McCain and Obama, here's just the thing that will probably tip it for you:
I wrote about restaurants yesterday, mostly chain steakhouses. It shouldn't go unremarked that the patriarchs of two of Fort Wayne's most well-known restaurants (and, as it happens, a couple of my favorites) died last week within a couple of days of each other. On Monday, Hartley McLeod died at 81. On Wednesday, Evangelos"Von" Filippou died at 87.
Call PETA -- maybe they can help:
Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise the risk of memory loss, research suggests.
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Soy products are a major alternative protein source to meat for many people in the developing world.
But soy consumption is also on the increase in the west, where it is often promoted as a "superfood".
Carnivores. Meat. Get it?
This is an abomination:
Sometimes a glass of white wine is not enough. Nor is a beer, an iced tea or a lemonade, though heaven knows few things are better than a tart lemonade in a beaded glass on a hot summer's day. ...
we want red wine. And how are we going to drink this red wine?
Certainly Americans could stand to lose a little weight. One way to aid that cause is for governments to mandate that restaurant menus contain more information on nutrition (California and New York leading the way, natch). That's legitimate, right? One thing government can do without screwing it up too much is to get information to consumers so they can make informed decisions. But (you knew one was coming, right?):
Stumped at the café? Go for a mocha.
According to new research, the tasty beverage provides a double-whammy of health benefits: chocolate may slow cancer growth, and java could help you live longer.
I discovered a Starbucks mocha ice cream bar at the market the other day. Awesome. Still waiting for that research on the health benefits of fried food to come in.
Well, they're paying attention to what happens in flyover country now, aren't they?
Raging floodwaters that have swallowed homes, bridges and roads across the Midwest this week now threaten to stunt the region's economy and raise already heightened food prices.
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The Joseph Decuis restaurant in Roanoke gets a nice writeup in the Star for its American version of Kobe beef, for which the restaurant owners keep their own herd of Japanese Wagyu cattle:
What has come to be called American Wagyu is typically a cross between Japanese Wagyu and black or red Angus.
