Apparently you and 6013 other diners can eat Syrian, Chinese or Indian food at the Damascus Gate Restaurant in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. The three year-old mega eatery recently made the Guinness records list.  Hard to say exactly what the place is like,  ( the restaurant's website...

Remarkable amounts of tasty food have been delivered to the hard-working volunteers I have been privileged to canvas with in New Mexico these past several weeks. Green chile stew, breakfast burritos, tamales, salsa.........and today here in west coast Florida, at a string of storefront residences re...

Unless there are chads hanging in the balance a la Campaign 2000, we’ll know before going to bed tonight who will be the next president. (Courtesy of Grist.org) Both candidates have talked extensively about the ailing economy, the health care crisis and the war in Iraq, and their respective platfo...

Some number of years ago, I used to think that the ability to get any kind of fresh produce any time of the year was a mark of an advanced global civilization. We had conquered a small piece of space and time and weather to bring me blueberries in February. More recently, we lived for over a year in...

According to Advertising Age, one of the more offensive ad campaigns of recent days has cracked the top ten of most memorable/most liked spots for the week.  The ads for TGI Friday's feature the hacktastic Guy Fieri speaking directly to the viewer, in one of them saying "hey buddy, your da...

From the Billings Gazette’s coverage of Barack Obama’s visit to Butte: America is a “shining beacon” that all the world looks toward for its independence and freedom, he said, and it’s time to come together to reinforce that ideal. With that, Obama ended his brief speec...

The New York Times today is offering us the following: The 11 Best Foods Your Aren't Eating, , a riff on a milk jug, and news on food relief workers finally being allowed into North Korea. Among those foods are beets and chard, both frequently eaten favorites among my people, and both recently purch...

  In a NYTimes piece on Obama's right hand guy, Reggie Love, we learn the following tidbits about the candidate's tastes: "...when it comes to food, Senator Obama “eats pretty much anything, from chicken wings and barbecue and ribs to grilled fish and steamed broccoli.” But wh...

As is common with omnibus bills, it's extremely unwieldy and contains both positive and negative provisions.  It's so unwieldy, in fact, that the first time it passed it did so in a version missing 34 pages.  Out of 673 total pages, you'd think no one would miss them, but they were the par...

This … prompts this: Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte. A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee. The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spr...