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Category Archives: Food

Beware the Bay Leaf

Monday, November 14, 2011

Choking on a piece of bay leaf is mortifying – it’s like glass. More should be written about it. Don’t expect restaurants to be responsible about taking bay leaf pieces out of their dishes – they are not.

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Coffee – you used to be fun. Now you’re a conundrum.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Single-Serve Coffeemakers: Another Recession Paradox by Edward Tenner, The Atlantic

Also filed in Corporate/Government Sweethearts, Don't Drink and Drive, Ecology, Money, Psych, pollution | | Comments (0)

Why Aren’t G.M.O. Foods Labeled?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

February 15, 2011, 9:00 pm, NY TIMES Why Aren’t G.M.O. Foods Labeled? By MARK BITTMAN

Also filed in Corporate/Government Sweethearts, Disaster, Don't Mix the 2, Ecology, Environment, Greed, Papers, Politix, Uncategorized, pollution | | Comments (0)

NON GMO Project

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

From the NON GMO Project website: Team Organic will Never Surrender to Monsanto: Now We Continue the Fight, Together

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U.S. Approves Genetically Modified Alfalfa

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced on Thursday that he would authorize the unrestricted commercial cultivation of genetically modified alfalfa, setting aside a controversial compromise that had generated stiff opposition…. From the NY Times by ANDREW POLLACK Published: January 27, 2011

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Infamous McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case Now a Movie

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

See/Hear Program From Democracy Now: Do You Know the Full Story Behind the Infamous McDonald’s Coffee Case and How Corporations Used it to Promote Tort Reform? “Stella Liebeck made national headlines in 1992 when she sued McDonald’s after spilling a scalding cup of hot coffee on her lap. The lawsuit had the whole country talking. [...]

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VEGAN MOFO

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Vegan MoFo International Headquarters

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Scary Grotesque Bakery

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

I found this on one of my favorite websites, Inventors Spot, by accident… Fresh Baked Bread, Anyone? Gruesome Body Bakery by Diana Eid

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National Coffee Day is for the Birds

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Yesterday was National Coffee Day – so I found out this morning from a blurb on an Indian website. Hmmmmm…..there was no free coffee anywhere around yesterday. Me, being the number 1 coffee addict in my general vicinity would zoom in on that like a scud missle….when I ordered a large soy cafe latte from [...]

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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