15 Jul 10 Charleston Beer Exchange July Beer Dinners
“Around The USA” at Ted’s Butcherblock July 22nd
Join us as we highlight different beer styles from across the USA. Visit http://www.tedsbutcherblock.com or call (843) 577-0094 for reservations and more information.
Carolina’s Beer Dinner with Brewery Ommegang July 28th
Chef Jeremiah Bacon will be constructing a perfectly paired menu highlighting some of Ommegang’s finest and most limited offerings. Reservations required. Call (843) 724-3800 for more information.
Italian Beer Dinner at BACCO July 29th
Please join us at BACCO Italian Restaurant in Mt. Pleasant for a sensational evening showcasing some of the finest and rarest Italian craft beers paired expertly with Chef Michael Scognamiglio’s extraordinary cuisine! This will be the first ever beer dinner of its kind in the Southeast, don’t miss this once in a lifetime dinner. See the menu here. Reservations are required and seating is limited. Call (843) 884-6969 for reservations.
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19 Nov 08 That Toyota Ad
I’ve not seen it myself. Nope. Then again, the last time I watched TV was to see McCain and Obama give their speeches on election night.
One of the reasons I don’t watch network TV is the annoying number of ads, rather than the number of annoying ads. I fully realize that it’s the advertising the generates the revenue for the networks, but unlike online advertising, which you can usually ignore, and which in any case, tends to be contextual, rather than, as in the case of television advertising, completely irrelevant to the content.
I’m good at skim reading and I’m pretty good in general at skimming past anything that doesn’t interest me, and that I don’t need to know. On the occasions that I do watch television, I find I simply don’t remember advertisments. I do get annoyed that the program I am trying to watch is interrupted every 6-7 minutes with a multitude of junk food ads or about pills you should take after a lifetime of eating the aforementioned junk food, but I can’t remember for the most part what the actual products are, as I don’t take pills unless I really have to, and almost never eat junk food as I don’t like it.
Still, what I don’t understand is how some folks get so animated about a 30 second ad, when much of the programming itself leaves a lot to be desired!
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13 Aug 08 In Defense Of Food
During my lifetime, I’ve seen the move away from fresh cooked fresh produce and meat to packaged, processed stuff. I’ve always been on the opinion, only based on my own logic, that what is found is nature has surely to be better than that which has been messed around with in a factory.
I’m currently reading In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
There are some interesting statistics in the book, and many of them aren’t something dreamed up by some pro-organic food faddist group, but are those obtained and researched by the USDA.
For example, us humans. being omnivores, are adapted to eat a few thousand different food items, along with all the vitamins, minerals, and macro and micro nutrients they contain. However, the average American gets most of their calories nowadays from just four sources – corn, soy, wheat and rice. You may think that you don’t eat much of those, but you do – in a processed form, the food processing industry has found a multitude of ways to present it.
If you’re interested in what you really eat, and how you can make simple changes to improve your long-term health and even longevity, this book is a really interesting read.
For now, I’m going to grab another banana.
Tags: amazon, fresh produce, gp, healthy food, in defense of food, lifetime, logic, Michael Pollan, paperback, processed food
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