A beautifully designed Italian restaurant and top-shelf bar. It’s perfect for dinner for two, dinner for the family or in this case, a quick escape while my co-worker goes shopping for a new outfit across the street.
La Bella Cucina has excellent, attentive service, a good variety of food and drink, and a very casual atmosphere in a neighborhood that can easily break the bank.
Ask most Americans about what causes global warming, and they’ll point to a coal plant smokestack or a car’s tailpipe. But it’s two other images that should be granted similarly iconic status, says the July/August 2008 cover story of E - The Environmental Magazine (now posted at www.emagazine.com): the front and rear ends of a [...]
Following up on my grilling story for The Boston Globe, Weber shared a few ridiculously good-looking burger recipes, and I think you need to have a look.
Here’s the procedure for making the perfect hamburger straight from the horse’s mouth.
Weber’s “The Perfect Burger”
1. Take meat out of the refrigerator about 20 to 30 minutes before grilling, and cover it well. When cold meat hits a grill, it makes for uneven cooking–and promotes the chances of the burgers not being cooked well enough [...]
Want a McDonald’s hamburger? No sliced tomatoes for you. How about a Panera Bread Frontega Chicken Sandwich? Hope you like chicken and bread. Wherever you go for lunch, don’t even ask for the summery favorite tomato and fresh mozzarella Capri salad.
Tomatoes have been pulled off shelves and menus nationwide after the Food and Drug Administration [...]
So if you’ve had one vodka, you’ve had them all right?
Well … kinda. Yeah.
But one thing’s for sure, there are some brands of vodka that will absolutely make you regret it later. They usually come in a plastic bottle and taste like something used to treat some sort of laceration.
Thankfully, Poland’s inexpensive import is not like [...]
(ARA) - California peaches, plums and nectarines are good sources of vitamin C. And they’re delicious.
Vitamin C is essential for healthy teeth and gums, aids in the absorption of iron and helps maintain connective tissue health which is important for defending against infection. Peaches and nectarines provide 15 percent of the recommended Daily Value (DV) [...]
Bottled Water’s Days are numbered, says leading Environmental Magazine
Bacardi puts out a pre-made Mojito mix that’s satisfying and provides an easy way to get mintily drunk at your next party.
Thankfully Guinness is staying out of this one…
Jimmy Russell, master distiller at Wild Turkey shares a recipe for his perfect mint julep — using Wild Turkey 101, of course.
So apparently, May is National Salad Month, and the good folks at The Soy Food Council want to remind you to eat healthy for at least one month.
DES MOINES, IOWA — Flowers are in bloom, warm temperatures are around the corner and nothing quite feels more like summer than a cool, refreshing salad with a [...]
Anheuser Busch squeezes Bud Light Lime onto package store shelves nationwide on Tuesday.
We got our hands on some.
Skepticism reigned when I passed the twist-off bottles around the table at the weekly poker game, with looks of “what’s this stuff?”
Surprise followed.
“This is pretty good!” “Wow … not what I was expecting.” “Not bad.”
Even MadeHandPoker.com’s Mark Scalia [...]
Already popular in Europe, Cape North Vodka is now being distributed in the US by Anheuser-Busch’s Long Tail Libations subsidy.
Cape North is made from Swedish spring water and distilled from French golden wheat from the Bourgogne region. The vodka finishes smooth with some light vanilla and citrus undertones.
“Cape North is a world-class vodka with an [...]
It was some time ago when Chef Arnond Sreesuvan (R-NON SREE-SUE-VON) of Pho Republique began his love affair with food in Cha ChoEng Sao, Thailand.
Born to a family of farmers and restaurateurs, it was his dream to come to America and share both his passion and mastery of Asian cuisine.
From April 13-15, Chef Arnond, and [...]
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