| People With Cancer Use Food As Weapon | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:16:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Can switching your diet protect you from cancer - or cure it? Everybody seems to have an opinion, and experts say that's part of the problem. Some say soybeans are good. Others think red meat and whole milk are bad. A recent study suggests red wine contains the magic cure and everybody's talking about low fat, high fat and trans fats. How about yoga, acupuncture, massage therapy and detox diets, topped off with megadoses of vitamin A, C or E? As Doreen Blanton struggled to recover from breast cancer it seemed all those questions - and answers - were coming at her at once. "I went a little overboard, I think. I struck everything from my diet. If it didn't come from a health food store and wasn't organic, everything was bad in my opinion.... | |
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| | | Fizz: A wine for all seasons | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:18:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sparkling wine is such an everyday drink. It's a great way to start any meal (even breakfast; just add orange juice) because the bubbles and crispness perk up your appetite. And it's a great way to wind down after work. Then, sparkling wine doesn't go flat nearly as quickly as many people fear. You can keep an opened bottle, tightly sealed, in the refrigerator for days before you lose so much fizz that you can no longer enjoy it. And it needn't cost a lot: A decent bottle of sparkling wine sells for less than $15. So I hate to pander to the idea of it as a special drink that's appropriate only on special occasions, like the festivities we're in the middle of. But the reality is that most sparkling wine sales for the year are in the second half of December. Given that you can spend as little as $10 and as much as a few hundred dollars for a bottle of sparkling wine, here are some things to consider.... | |
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| | | High schoolers learn drinking, driving consequences | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:12:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | She'd had two glasses of wine and got into her car after an argument. When she reached down to pick up a dropped cell phone, she ran a stop sign and killed the driver in another car. Danielle Cross later spent a month in a psychiatric ward after trying to kill herself. When she was released, her apartment, car, dogs and job were all gone. In court, even the prosecutor assumed she'd get an easy sentence in the local detention center for the 2004 accident. Instead, she was put away for 16 months in state prison - locked in a cell block with hardened criminals. "Vehicular homicide is murder," she reminded her rapt listeners. "I killed someone with 2 tons of speeding metal." Ms. Cross was speaking to a group of more than 100 students from three county high schools who sauntered through metal detectors at the Anne Arundel District Court early Wednesday morning.... | |
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| | | Doing it our way | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:48:42 AM by Blog57 Team | | DIMLY lighted, wine bottles on the walls, soft music playing in the background, the interiors a cross between a Mediterranean villa and an Italian trattoria, this cozy restaurant located along A.S. Fortuna St. near the Adoration Convent of Divine Mercy exudes an old-world charm not found in most of the new establishments springing up in and around Cebu City. With the ambience reminiscent of a gangsters favorite eating-place or watering hole, youd half-expect to see Don Michael Corleone, Tony Montana and Lefty Ruggiero clinking glasses and counting the days take while being served by Charlie Brigante as Officer Frank Serpico glances at them furtively from another table. Cinematic characters notwithstanding, underworld activities are not the norm at Carlitos Way Steakhouse. Rather, the byword here is beef.... | |
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| | | Heading Off Last-Minute Disasters | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:40:43 PM by Blog57 Team | | No amount of planning can completely forestall disaster. In fact, the mark of a good host is the ability to recover gracefully from the unexpected. Here's some advice from the experts on how to cope with some common Thanksgiving mishaps. You Don't Have Enough Matching Dishes or Glasses. There are numerous strategies for dealing with what we'll call service shortage, but the most important one is not to worry about it. According to Rozanne Gold, entertaining columnist for Bon Appétit and author, most recently, of "Cooking 1-2-3" (Stewart Tabori & Chang, $37.50), "All of these entertaining rules are not only being broken, they're meant to be broken." .... | |
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| | | Law And Disorder: Looking At The Bar Tab | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:21:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | After our hidden camera report last week that showed Cooper City leaders drinking at bars and restaurants at tax payers expense before commission meetings, they have been insisting in press reports that all they had were a few harmless rounds of wine or beer. But some disturbing new findings we've uncovered would indicate otherwise. Our investigation began two months ago after several outraged citizens in Cooper City tipped off the CBS4 I-team about their city leaders showing up at local bars, shortly before voting on taxpayer issues at city commission meetings. We put them under surveillance for two months, secretly videotaping the mayor, city manager, and some commissioners at bars and restaurants around town before four different commission meetings -- having one, some having two, some having three for the road before showing up at city hall to vote.... | |
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| | | Cozy up to a glass of red and live longer | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:46:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | The only thing that for me might beat this week's big health news would be to find that coffee loaded with half-and-half prevents cancer. But this is a close second: A substance found in red wine, resveratrol, might make us live longer. A lot longer. Finally, some ''good'' health news. I feel doubly vindicated because I've often observed that I don't know why anyone even bothers to produce white wine. Ha. The research was conducted at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging, and first appeared, online, in the scientific journal Nature. What I really appreciate is the delicious irony that the health effects of resveratrol are similar to those seen in deliberately calorie restricted diets. As the Wall Street Journal explains it, those are diets that ''cut normal calorie intake'' by about one-third.... | |
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| | | Serving With Wine Glasses | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:38:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | Alcohol, as a rule, is generally easy to serve. For beer, you simply hand someone a can or a bottle and, if need be, a bottle opener. For hard alcohol, you simply pour the spirits into a mixer, add in a straw or perhaps a mini umbrella, and send them on their way. For shooters, you place the alcohol in a shot glass and, depending on what the person is drinking, give them something to deflate the alcohol’s flavor: a lime, a lemon, a stomach pump. While wine is a type of alcohol, it refutes this easy-to-serve concept. It’s not horribly difficult to serve, but when compared to other forms of alcohol, its proper service requires a little more know how, a know-how that is facilitated by an understanding of the different types of wine glasses. Three Main Wine Glasses Although wine glasses can come in many varieties — with different sizes and shapes abounding — there are three general wine glass categories aimed at encompassing the most common types of wine.... | |
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| | | Giving the Gift of Wine | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 1:27:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | The holidays have a way of bringing change: people become cheerier, houses become more illuminated, and turkeys start carrying around Rosary beads, fervently hoping that no one notices them. From the family get-togethers to the meetings with old friends, the holidays are a time for love, joy, and kinship. Yet, before "Peace on Earth and Goodwill towards men" can really begin to solidify, one thing needs to be finished: holiday shopping. Holiday shopping can bring stress upon just about anyone. If the packed department stores don't unnerve you, a rabid shopping cart to the back of your heel surely will: there's nothing that increases blood pressure quite like a Wal-Mart in December. However, there are certain gifts that allow for avoidance of long lines, screaming children, and the "Sold Out" signs sure to plague the Tickle Me Elmo section of local department stores.... | |
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| | | Wine Tasting Kits and Caboodles | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 3:15:12 AM by Blog57 Team | | Wine tasting may seem like something that is on special reserve, geared only for those who are expert wine drinkers. Intent on discovering fruits of a winery's labor, these connoisseurs set out to serve as judges and juries of the bottled world, as if deciding the fate of a wine that stands trial, accused of being bad. But, however expert-like wine tasting may seem, it's not just for those who are experts, connoisseurs, or even seasoned drinkers; wine tasting is also for beginners. For those of you who view wine as a stranger, too intimidated to approach it in a bar, wine tasting is a necessary and helpful practice. Wine tasting serves many purposes. First of all, it gives you the ability to find out what kind of wine you truly enjoy, helping you decide what wine you should order at restaurants and store in the cellar.... | |
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