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5 Great Summertime Drinks
These 5 drinks are perfect for summer. Since Memorial Day is the official kick-off of the summer season, here is a list of drink ideas that are both tasty and refreshing. Mood Food: Scientists link fast food and depression
Fast food is as bad for your mind as it is for your body. For emotional eaters, stress and sadness can be solved with ice cream and doughnuts. What scientists in Spain have discovered, however, is that eating processed foods -- even at minimal levels -- might be causing depression. MIT and Harvard Make Ketchup Less Annoying
The brightest minds in the country have figured out how to get ketchup out of a bottle. It sounds like a plotline from a Seinfeld episode, but engineers at M. Scrambled Egg Muffins
Easy and delicious. These muffins are nutrition-packed and pocket-sized -- perfect for breakfast or snack time. 12 servings. Ingrediants 9 Eggs ½ cup Chopped Fresh Spinach ⅓ cup Skim Milk ⅓ cup Spelt Flour, or whole wheat pastry flour ¼ cup 2% Grated Cheddar Cheese 1 Tbsp Chopped Fresh Basil 1 Small Tomato, chopped ½ tsp Sea Salt ½ tsp Cracked Black Pepper Directions 1. Miracle Sweetener Stevia May Have a Sour Note
The meteoric rise of a natural, healthy alternative to sugar - a holy grail for the food industry - might just be a little too good to be true. Delivery Boy Brings Shame and Tip Etiquette Via Blogopshere
A blog on Tumblr called 15% shames bad tippers and answers questions. The next time you think about handing the delivery guy a $2 tip, think again! On his Tumblr blog, which he has named 15%, 20-year-old Larry Fox publically shames bad tippers and rude customers. The Skinny on Big Portions
Bigger portions mean big trouble for weight and nutritional guidelines. Portion sizes have grown over the last 60 years and, with them, so have individuals. Food Rankings: Crafted Beer and College Dining Halls
How do your college or your favorite hops-and-barley beverages stack up in these recent rankings? Some quick numbers on the beer industry: there are currently over 2,000 breweries in the United States, and another 600 or 700 are on the way, according to an article on the Huffington Post. The (Not So) Great GoogaMooga Recap
If you missed the first ever GoogaMooga Food Festival, here's what you need to know. This past weekend, Brooklyn's Prospect Park hosted the first Great Googa Mooga Festival. Greek crisis drags euro, stocks, oil lower
The euro, oil and stocks fell on Tuesday as worries intensified that Greece could reject the bailout that saved it from a chaotic bankruptcy as new leadership sought to form a government two days after elections. Cuba's little capitalists are ready to rumba
When Ojacy Curbello and her husband opened a restaurant at their home in Havana in late December, not a single customer showed up. Sara Lee profit misses estimates
Packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp reported lower-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday and said full-year earnings would be in the middle of its forecast range. Can an African "green revolution" help feed the world?
(AlertNet) - Her bare feet coated with mud, Sabena Gitau trudged down the rain-sodden hillside to her banana plantation, machete in hand. Spanish chef Arzak has no plans to leave the cutting edge
Chef Juan Mari Arzak has done much to put Spain's culinary heritage on the map and aims to keep it there despite an economic crisis by researching new ideas and giving free rein to the imagination.
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