Coming Up to Speed

In Town Well, I’ll be home all week this week. Wonderful! I have so much catching up to do. Eating Out We went out to eat in Culver City tonight, a place called Eat Your Greens. I’ve been there before and really like their food. Afterward I splurged and had a chocolate ice cream from Cold Stone. While sitting outside… Continue reading

Vietnam: Day One – Dinner

Tonight, for dinner, I went to the traditional Vietnamese restaurant here at the Sofitel Metropole by Lake Hoan Kiem in central Hanoi. I decided to live on the edge and ordered a 7 course meal of traditional dishes. I have no idea what I ate. The names were all in Vietnamese. What I do know: this was the tastiest, most… Continue reading

Do We Know When…

we eat genetically modified food? Three types of Monsanto genetically modified corn are under scrutiny in the wake of a new study published by the International Journal Of Biological Sciences which found that rats ingesting the corn were subject to statistically significant amounts of organ toxicity. … The finding that corn produced by one of the world’s agricultural giants could… Continue reading

Do They Make Your Lips Change Colors?

If I had these when I was a child, I might have become a diabetic sooner! I loved Froot Loops cereal as a chid! “Cory Doctorow: Kellogg‘s Cereal Straws are straws lined with powdered sugar-cereal dust that kids can drink milk through. It makes the milk taste like the sludge left at the bottom of a cereal bowl. We feed… Continue reading

The Elixir of the Gods!

I have to rave. I’m trying to watch my sugar intake, but I’m so over diet colas and carbonated drinks in general. This weekend I discovered that the Arizona Beverage Company has diet products as well as their usual line of teas and such, that I love.  Next to them on the shelf was Diet Air, a product manufactured by… Continue reading