Danny Novo
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Over breakfast this morning, while looking through the newspaper ads, my seven-year-old son asked me what a Pringle was. I explained, and we discussed why they come in a cantube, instead of in a bag like normal chips, but there’s nothing like experiencing something for yourself. So today, while I was at work, I bought […]
I saw this a year ago, and thought the basic idea of this store was so cool that I went ahead and ordered a case of weird sodas. They sell stuff you can find at your local organic/specialty store, but they also carry nano-brew sodas I’ve never seen before (or since). Super expensive, all things […]
As a result of the South Beach diet we’re not really on, I have been drinking a lot of Crystal Light lately (yay, Aspartame!). I flirted with Crystal Light a number of years ago, mostly with the “Natural Lemonade” flavor (which is far from natural, but pleasantly sour and cloyingly sweet, btw), but we’re drinking […]
This weekend we went to Borders, here in town, and bought two South Beach Diet books (the Book, and a cookbook). In reading the Book of them, it became clear to us that we eat too much of some bad stuff, mostly refined sugar and processed carbs. Or, as I like to think of them, […]
I come from Argentina, where dulce de leche is a sweetener, an ice cream topping, a pancake spread, and oftentimes a snack by the spoonful. There are many reasons I am not going to make my own dulce de leche this way, but that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t!
So, I finally had some Honest Ade, by the Honest Tea people. I wrote about it a while ago, but had not found it locally. Now I have, and I was a bit underwhelmed. Fruity water. If I’m paying that much for a drink, I need it to be extra flavorful, so I don’t think […]
