March 2007

Life-Saving Ice Cream

by zora on March 29, 2007

Last night Tamara and Karl brought over the wave of the future: Haagen-Dazs Reserve Pomegranate Chip. I’m always a fan of the fruit + chocolate combo, which is too rare, and this stuff tasted pretty damn good, if not completely pomegranate-y. But I couldn’t stop mulling over the irony that this particular combination surely would [...]

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Normally I don’t care about sports…

by zora on March 29, 2007

…but maybe I should pay more attention to soccer. I clicked on the headline Maradona ‘sedated and recovering’. Not sure why, but I at least know who Maradona is, and if something awful had happened to him, it would be a sad day for the Argentines. After the lede, we get this sentence: The 46-year-old’s [...]

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I always knew Whoppers were better

by zora on March 28, 2007

Burger King to Serve Up Cage-Free Food, go the reports on the wires today. The fast-food co. plans to order more of its meat and eggs from producers who “do not keep their animals in cages and crates.” This looks like great news, but the cynic in me is just counting down the seconds till [...]

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Alex Witchel–off the deep end

by zora on March 28, 2007

For a while, I was keeping up with Alex Witchel’s particular flair for self-loathing and misery in the New York Times Dining section. Then, miraculously, she seemed to get a little more upbeat, and I forgot all about her. Maybe today’s essay is just a desperate bid for my attention? First of all, the hed, [...]

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