Would you drink a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? If you order a venti (20-oz.) Starbucks Caffè Mocha, you might as well be sipping that 500-calorie burger through a straw….
Source: CSPI Newsroom
Good Cup, Bad Cup – Advice on How to Survive in Latte Land

Yikes. I’m glad I haven’t set foot in Starbucks (or McDonald’s, for that matter) for at least five years.

Despite the “break” in the heatwave, I still feel like I’m in an oven, and I simply cannot find a refreshing enough drink. I’ve tried lemonade, ginger ale, ice tea, and all of my other cool drink recipes, but nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions?

I recycle pretty much everything, but I’ve always drawn the line at food – I just throw those scraps onto the compost pile. But an enterprising graduate student has come up with a way to get just a little more use out of inedible food scraps: wasteware. The scraps are ground up and then molded into dishes that can be used a few times before they become compost. Pretty cool.
Wasteware, it’s everything but the squeal in food recycling

Bastille Day is rapidly approaching – celebrate à la française with some of my favorite French recipes, including crêpes, French onion soup, and vichyssoise.

Today is American Independence Day, and a traditional way to celebrate is with a picnic, so I thought I’d share some of my favorite picnic recipes, as well as a red, white, and blue fruit salad. Happy 4th, everyone! 🙂

This is a campaign to create a single label that would tell consumers whether or not a given item
N contains all natural ingredients (i.e., not genetically modified)
O is organic
V is vegan
A has been tested on animals
At a glance, you’d be able to check a product’s suitability against your particular requirement(s). I think this is a fantastic idea; the only thing missing is fair trade. The campaign is in the UK right now, but I truly hope it will catch fire and spread to the rest of the world. (In England, they’ve had a V for vegan label for years and that hasn’t showed up in the US yet, but I’m still hopeful). Learn more and sign the petition at: The NOVA Key