Meg and her trustworthy gang of gorgeous gals who write for Megsmakeup.com (the number two beauty website!) met up for the first time over Labor Day weekend here on the Central Coast! They were in for some long hours of wine tasting, so we gave each gal her very own Wine Wipes compact. They had a blast and had a professional videographer document their adventure! “Not only did Kimberly hook us up with the Wine Wipes-she invited us to come to her beautiful Granada Bistro to have some vino and put our wine wipes to the test. The Granada Bistro was something out of an old Parisian movie. It’s a small sexy little wine and tapas bistro. It really is the perfect venue to meet up with your girls or have a romantic interlude.” Watch the video and read more here!
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Tired of paying the grocery store for your culinary needs? Want to do your part in saving the planet? Hello to Dumpster Diving aka urban foraging, skally-wagging, garbage picking, binning, skip-raiding, skip-weaseling.
So I read in Epi-blog this morning that most sea salt is not iodized. If your body is deficient in it, your thyroid can have problems functioning properly, which can result in depression, weight gain, and even mental problems. Until the early 1900s, many people around the world were iodine deficient. In the 20th century, most Western countries solved this problem by adding iodine to salt, which pretty much eliminated iodine deficiency in the developed world…Though it’s still common in third-world countries without iodized salt. In 2006, The New York Times reported that iodizing salt would be the easiest way to raise the world’s IQ. Most brands of sea and kosher salt, however, do not have iodine added. The amount of iodine in most sea salt is negligible; certainly not enough to supply the 150 micrograms needed daily by the average adult. And even iodine-rich foods don’t supply enough, unless you eat seaweed almost every day. On the other hand, a quarter-teaspoon of iodized table salt contains 115 micrograms.
We all know shopping for wine or ordering wine at a restaurant can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. If you don’t happen to be a master sommelier, mobile software developers have begun developing wireless applications to help with your daunting task. Different apps give the user various methods for looking up tonight’s potential bottle of vino. Applications such as Cor.kz, Wine Enthusiast Guide, Nat Decants Food & Wine Matcher and Pair It! can all help the common man impress his dinner guests with superior wine paring knowledge. So the next time you are staring down a store aisle lined with countless bottles of wine or the restaurant’s wine menu seems to be never ending, breath easy and simply sneak a peak at the sommelier in your pocket.
I came across this humorous little article and thought it was appropriate to share with you all! Enjoy and thank you to Allen Klein for the tips!
Slashfood’s Hanna Raskin recently wrote in her blog that restaurant customers are doing themselves and their servers a disservice by leaving a “standard” 15-percent tip for good service. According to Raskin (blogger, server and food-tour organizer) leaving a 15-percent tip isn’t just rude, it’s also unrealistic, insensitive, ungrateful and outdated. Think that $3 tip on a $20 bill is fine? Think again, she says. If you want to let your server know he or she did a fine job, you’re going to have to do better. It seems that most of Americans agree with Raskin, as the national average tip rose to 19 percent in 2008. However, I think tipping is more complex than a flat percentage. For example, many college students don’t have much spare cash, so a 15 percent tip could be really generous and show that they appreciated the good service. On the flip side if a well-off couple dines and tips 15 percent, it could mean they didn’t approve of the service. All in all, a 15 percent tip is a 15 percent tip. And now that 15 percent is no longer the national average…