A Nice Cuppa

I had to make a health food store run yesterday to stock up the pantry. My favorite, Mama Jean’s Natural Market, is a bit of a drive for me so when I’m there I usually peruse the aisles much like I wander joyously through the library on a Saturday morning. At both places, […]

CROUCHING BARISTA, HIDDEN LACTOSE (continued…)
Interior - Motel - West Sumatra
GUNTER: I want a tea.
PRAMANA: You just had choco.
GUNTER: I got something to prove.
Pramana could have cared less. Their location had been made, and the “good” side of a smuggling simulation was threatening to end their training in the field. […]

Cadbury Schweppes has just introduced a new line of Snapple Green Tea drinks. Snapple touts the drinks as “a collection of authentic green tea beverages that contain the natural antioxidant EGCG, which is said to help boost metabolism.” The drinks boast 55mg of EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate), which is naturally found in green tea and plays […]

Candles and coffee - I have to say, it doesn’t seem like the most likely of pairs. Unless you’re Yankee Candle, and then along with the 5 billion other scents it is a completely logical pairing.
If you’ve ever shopped for candles then you’ve likely heard of Yankee Candle, and you already know - Yankee […]

Whenever my parents visit me in New York, my mother and I branch off from my father for a day filled with shopping and eating. We rejoin him each evening for dinner where we try in earnest to eat, but aren???t very convincing. Though we???ve never revealed the secret behind our full bellies, […]

Bikinis and low-riders and tea? Oh my! Marketing iced tea to the hot and thirsty has come a long way since the Lipton plunge. Remember the image of a fully clothed middle-aged man falling into a pool with an iced Lipton tea? That commercial is tame compared to Fuze’s summer advertising. […]

Grab a spoon!
Yup, you read that correctly - grab a spoon. But not just any old spoon, an ice spoon. Walter Drake an online and catalog retailer of a myriad of home accessories carries what I consider to be one of my most useful finds of the summer - ice spoon molds.

Fill the […]

These days, health is everything and the phrase “you are what you eat” is truer than ever before. But, don???t you just get tired of it all sometimes? I mean, eggs were bad for you. Now the good outweighs the bad. Eat fish twice weekly, but here???s the exhaustive list you […]

Undaunted by the delightful-sounding, yet ultimately disappointing Blisscotti, I am continuing my search for the perfect frozen coffee treat. I finally determined my criteria for perfection: I do not have to make it, it is readily available, not so expensive that I must forego actual food in order to purchase it, must be […]

Until recently, the only things I knew about Delaware were my sister-in-law was raised there, the Duponts reside there and major corporations are headquartered there. I had heard about the beaches from friends, but had never really spent any time there. Then my grandmother purchased a house along the peninsula in Bethany Beach. […]