‘News & Updates’ Archives
Picnics illegal in Salt Lake City?
I’ve never made any claims about being a legal genius but I think picnics are now illegal in Salt Lake City, UT. If not then late night picnics are for sure. City ordinance 11.12.080: Camping and Sleeping on Public Grounds is meant to keep the homeless from sleeping in public areas. But as the ordinance is worded the city may just have [...]
Portland Voodoo
I recently spent three days in the city of Portland, Oregon. I was attending a culinary workshop hosted by Plate Magazine at Le Cordon Bleu. It was a riveting experience that challenged me as a chef and a person and showed me things about the world around me that I was previously unaware of. How did I get all of that from a workshop about [...]
Is food obsession linked to spirituality?
By Stephanie Chen, CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS "Women Food and God" explores obsession with food and how to stop it Author Geneen Roth spent decades struggling with dieting and body image Roth encourages women to use relationship with food as way to study how they live "Eating guidelines" tell people to eat when they are hungry, among [...]
Kiddie Meals = Poison
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Michele Costanza I'm often struck by the "kid-friendly" meals offered by restaurants where standard fare includes: hot dogs, deep-fried chicken fingers, mac-n-cheese, pizza. That adults get to eat a large variety of high-quality, interesting foods, and kids get to eat off the bargain menu filled [...]
High Five Friday – How to Eat, Be, and Live!
High Five Friday! Love this day it is a great chance to discover new people with various views of the world. I have no set theme this week other than these are all people I’ve been really impressed with on Twitter. On Food Let’s get started with @thepoorchef1 – Charles Mattlocks is his name and his mission is to help you eat [...]
Meatless Mindy and Peter Rabbit
Saturday is The Great American Meatout, this is the day when some of the vegetarian community stage events to encourage others to switch to a vegetarian lifestlye. It has become increasingly suggested by the health community that we eat at least one vegetarian meal a week. The Meatout motto is "kick the meat habit on March 20 (the first day of [...]
Link Share Saturday: Diets and Grilling
Die with a T After my 601 sugar level incident I have started trying to eat better. I'm better sometimes than others and I try not to beat myself up about it taking me so long to adjust. But somewhere in there my daughter decided I was on a diet. Now whenever we are talking to someone about anything food related this typically shy seven [...]
High Five – World Day of Prayer
It's Follow Friday in Twiterland and that means thousands of people around the world will be offering up platters of advice about whom we should be following on twitter. This is my first official Follow Friday and I'm calling it High Five (at least for now). It also happens to be the World Day of Prayer so my follow suggestions will be [...]
Suicide Soda
Do you remember as a child wanting to mix several or all of the sodas on the soda fountain together? My kids love doing it they call it a mix up. This is such a time honored tradition that Jones Soda came out with Jones Jumble mixed flavor soda. A study from researchers at Hollins University may bring an end to these fond childhood [...]
