Click here to watch the Paris Salon du Chocolat fashion show 2010 opening. Loads of dresses in chocolate, decorated in chocolate. Only in Paris!
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Click here to watch the Paris Salon du Chocolat fashion show 2010 opening. Loads of dresses in chocolate, decorated in chocolate. Only in Paris!
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by Simón de Swaan
De gustibus non disputandum es. –Latin proverb
There is no disputing taste.
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The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can be said to have a soul.–Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden (1871)
Charles Dudley Warner was an American writer and editor. He edited the series American Men of Letters and published a collection of essays, My Summer in a Garden (1871).
Click here to learn more about American Men of Letters on Answers and Encyclopedia.
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by Jonell Galloway
The video Miracle Water Village in India is a wonderful story and lesson for the rest of the world. Shiyam Sundar says: “As the world reels under the threat of unrelenting climate change, erratic monsoons and fast depleting groundwater reserves, The Miracle Water Village narrates the inspirational story of impoverished farming community in India that reversed its fortunes through its visionary model of water management.”
Click here to watch the video.
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Don’t miss this with Anthony Bourdain, first known for his book Anthony Bourdain blasts Paula Deen’s brand of Southern cookingerbelly, which was later made into a television show. The book was autobiographical and described, in detail, the excessive adventures of what really goes on in a professional kitchen.
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by Tamar Chamlian
Vitamin D is of vital importance to our bodies. Most of us know that simple exposure to the sun for up to 10 minutes a day is sufficient for the body to make its own vitamin D.
Now that winter is setting in, if you live in countries that barely see the sun for months on end, you will need to seek other sources of getting your vitamin D.
It’s actually simple and easy. Here are the top three foods that can provide you with Vitamin D, with suggestions on how to use them.
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Edible: good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.–Ambrose Bierce, c. 1900
Ambrose Bierce was American satirist and writer (1842-1914? He went off to join Sancho Villa and was never seen again).
When William Randolph Hearst asked Ambrose Bierce what he collected, he replied: “I collect words. And ideas. Like you, I also store them. But in the reservoir of my mind. I can take them out and display them at a moment’s notice. Eminently portable, Mr. Hearst. And I don’t find it necessary to show them all at the same time.”
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Our ongoing series of tapas photos from by food photographer Steve Homer of Sabor de Almería in the southeast of Spain.
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See more food photo compositions at Meeta K. Wolff or in our Food Art category.
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by Jonell Galloway
Better eat all the chocolate you can now. Seems global warming is going to hit West Africa, and it will affect chocolate production. Chocolate will only be for the rich in the not-so-far-off future.
Chocolate art in all its forms: photo exhibition of odd chocolate creations.
Chocolate is the star at Le Cordon Bleu Australia this month, and they will be exhibiting October 19 to 21, 2011, at the Paris Expo, held at the Porte de Versailles.
Roundup of chocolate events in Britain’s chocolate week.
Psychology Today says the feel-good chocolate effect only lasts 3 minutes.
Check out BBC Good Food’s wealth of chocolate recipes. There’s something to everyone’s taste, and recipes go from easy to difficult.
Just discovered: Death by Chocolate, by Alan Nolan, a comic writer.
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