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Fat Substitute Olestra Eyed as Hazardous-Waste Cleaner Potato Chip Sales Fall Short
[usatoday]
The controversial fat substitute that consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble once hoped would change the way people eat might, instead, change the way industrial pollutants are cleaned up.
P&G has asked that a precursor of its olestra fat substitute be placed on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of industrial chemicals. The new chemical, made by rearranging fatty acids, might be used to soak up toxins at Superfund sites, heavily polluted areas designated by the EPA
favorite food of lately (and of about 10 years ago)--some swiss cheese on a soft fresh roll (high variation) with mustard (spicy best) lots of mayo and iceberg lettuce--looking for the perfect one!!
On May 26, 1976 — just 25 years ago — a group of unknown California wines went up against a battery of France's best at a blind tasting in Paris — and won the day.
Totally.
The nine judges, all French experts, were outraged. Some even tried to change their decisions. They couldn't, but what did change was the future of the American wine business. There are 1,600 commercial wineries in the United States, a number that has tripled since the tasting.
American winemakers had long believed they could take on the French; it took a young English wine merchant based in Paris, Steven Spurrier, who arranged the event, to show them they were right.
The best red: a Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet; the best white, a Chateau Montelena chardonnay. Both were Napa Valley wines.
To prove his enthusiasm had not been misplaced, Mr. Spurrier held the same tasting, with only the red wines, 10 years later. The Americans won again. FRANK J. PRIAL
is-wine is a new wine store in an east village half-a-store-front on 5th street between 2nd & Cooper Sq. Almost feels like you're walking into someone's apartment. Nice guys who seem knowledgeable (not that I'm the best judge.) And they're tasting every Saturday afternoon (but that's not why I stopped in, honest, I just wanted to get the report.) Anyway, I think it's notable because it is in the east village which is pretty much devoid of places to buy wine. And even better than that - they deliver. Tell them what you're eating and they'll bring over some bottles. 212 254 7800. Hmmmm.
William Shatner will host an American version of "The Iron Chef"
New York's Weirdest Restaurant?
Vatan--yummy yummy yummy and a few new dishes--and my friend convinced them o let us BYOB!!
NASA and the wine industry (third section down.)
market is jumping--more fish variety, fiddleheads, ramps galore, pea shoots too....