NapaCabs: Nice Selection and Wine Tastings Too

Posted on January 28, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

Someone at a BevMo wine tasting alerted me to a place in Chino, Calif., that also hosts Saturday afternoon wine events. I looked up the joint on its Web site called NapaCabs and headed out there this past Saturday.
I exited the 60 Freeway and headed south on Central Avenue for what seemed like forever. I [...]

Amazing Diet Secret: Sweet Potatoes for a Healthy Heart

Posted on January 22, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

Wow, now here’s an exciting article about diet and food consumption secrets from around the world. You may not like cabbage or sweet potatoes, but they surely like you!
WORLD’S DIET SECRETS

Beautiful, But Seduced by Iron Chefdom Aura

Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

Now, in my mental categorization of beauty, no female can be more beautiful or desirable than a Korean woman, and [tag]Kelly Choi[/tag] is a native South Korean who was reared in Virginia from a very young age and is now host of Eat Out: NY, which is aired in New York, obviously. And she was [...]

The Curse of the Drinking Class

Posted on January 19, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

It’s great to pluck a restaurant out of the blue (the Zagat guide) and be not only pleasantly but wonderfully surprised by the result.
Such was my luck today when, hoping to find a waterside restaurant with good food for a wedding anniversary luncheon (mine) and finding that most such restaurants are closed for lunch on Saturday, [...]

Zagats Might Become Centimillionaires

Posted on January 16, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

I’ve seen Tim and Nina Zagat serving as judges on Iron Chef America, and they basically look like your average overweight, diabetic-prone middle-class white Americans who lucked into something without a clue.
I guess being clueless pays off. They now have their Zagat guide on sale, and expectations are for $200 million up.
I do have to [...]

Hypertension Cure: McDonald’s Deluxe Breakfast

Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

Faced with my yearly physical today, and with a couple of hours to kill, I stopped in at McDonald’s to nosh and read the daily newspaper.
Of course, noshing in this case meant a McD’s Deluxe Breakfast with bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, English muffin, pancakes and potato patty. Throw in the coffee, and you’ve got the makings [...]

From Hot Dog Vendor to Multimillionaire

Posted on January 12, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

Carl Karcher, founder of Carl’s Jr., passed away of pneumonia yesterday in Fullerton, Calif. He was 90 and a true genius in the fast food world.
Karcher got his start by purchasing a hot dog cart for $326–$15 of his savings and $321 borrowed against his automobile. That was in 1941. He soon bought more carts.
After [...]

Bobby Flaying It in Las Vegas

Posted on January 12, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

No, I didn’t suddenly transform into the celebrity Iron Chef, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Actually, in Las Vegas for business, I figured I’d try one of the Iron Chefs’ restaurants, either Flay’s Mesa Grille or Mario Batali’s B&B. Since B&B doesn’t serve lunch, that pretty much left Mesa; however, [...]

New Cooking Videos Subdomain Launched

Posted on January 10, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

I’ve created a self-updating subdomain called CookingVids.LeFoodNews.com (which will also appear as a page option on my home page) that features the latest publicy available cooking videos.
The script behind it automatically finds the latest videos and uploads them, so the content is always fresh.
Enjoy!

Greed Takes Down Two High Flyers

Posted on January 9, 2008 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment

Strange that it would happen on the same day, but not unexpected.
Years ago, when Krispy Kreme Donoughts started its massive expansion and was wallowing in new income, I thought to myself, "It’s just a matter of time before people get tired of extra sugary donuts and Krispy Kreme will find itself over-extended."
That happened fairly quickly [...]

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