Featuring Food & Wine

Food & Wine magazine covers the art of preparing, presenting and enjoying fine food, wine and spirits. It features articles on dining out, entertaining and traveling and includes recommendations for recipes, wine, travel, equipment and appliances, trends, menu planning, and diet and nutrition.

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It’s time you start eating your age!

Food & Wine has a great article this month on preparing a Thanksgiving feast based on your age.  They theorize that you’ll want to toy with your taste buds in your 20’s, cook for convenience in your 40’s, and eat like royalty in your 60’s. 

Check out all the mouth watering recipes on pages 87-116 or view them at the Food & Wine magazine website here. 

Only A Few More Days Until Black Friday

Black Friday is right around the corner. If you want to know the history behind Black Friday, you can check out the article at the bottom of the ERRSS Newsletter from November 29^th last year. Did you know there are a few websites that give you a pre-preview of all the upcoming deals?

Check out http://bfads.net/ or http://www.blackfriday.info/ to see the latest scanned Black Friday ads. Personally I would prefer to get the RSS feed instead of an email, there is no telling what kind of junk email you will get if you do sign up. I don’t see a privacy statement on the www.blackfriday.info signup form so that’s usually a good indicator that your email address will end up on someone else’s list.

It looks like there are going to be some mega deals this year. All the magazines this month and next month will have shopping tips. InStyle has 179 gift ideas on pages 358-390. You’ll find the Lucky magazine gift guide on pages 215-250. Consumer Reports also just sent out their 2007 Annual Buyers Guide that is included in the yearly subscription.

Actually guys, if you want to buy your lady some non-diamond gemstone jewelry, there was an article about how to measure gemstone quality in the Real Simple featured in the last newsletter.

Good luck next Friday, try not to get swallowed up in the mad rush of holiday shopping.

Are Biofuels Really The Answer?

This month’s issue of Smithsonian magazine has an article about biofuels and asks the question; "Is there actually a positive environmental impact to using biofuels?" After reading the article, it looks like making biofuels isn’t a problem as long as we begin using a cellulosic technology. Unfortunately, there are some major political lobbyists who may have a problem with this.

On the environmental side of things, there is the issue of land usage, the drawback to corn based ethanol is that it takes one acre to produce 60 gallons. Cellulose based ethanol is better, but you still need to more land to produce only a small fraction of the capacity needed by the US alone.

There is also the fact that burning biofuels still produces carbon dioxide.  The use of biofuels doesn’t produce as much carbon dioxide as gasoline, but fuel based (usually coal) heat is also still needed in the biofuel production process.

Find out more by reading the whole Smithsonian article here.  

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