North County San Diego Restaurant – Blanca

Blanca, one of North County San Diego’s newest fine dining restaurants is definitely suitably named. With snow white dining plates, table linens, pendant lanterns, and a prominent concrete bar, Blanca is elegant, classy, and cool-just like Solana Beach and the surrounding North County area.

What Wine Gifts to Buy?

What is a celebration without dining and wining? Wine is synonymous with good times. If you want to impress your friends, family or business associates with a gift that is sure to make a memorable and long lasting impression, send to them wine gifts.

Is Our Food Killing Us?

I am concerned about the food and drinks that you and I are consuming everyday. I hope you are a little concerned too. Sure we can read the labels and hope that what those words that we can’t even pronounce are OK for us to eat or drink, but are they?

Don’t Take Chances – Drink Ultra Pure Water!

Are you concerned that you may not be drinking ultra pure water? Did you know what the EPA has determined to be the number one health hazard in the United States? You might be surprised to hear the answer… they found that levels of lead in drinking water takes the top spot.

Mexican Food Catering – A Few Tips to Help You Select a Catering Company

Most people love Mexican food so having a Mexican food catering company caterer your next outing is probably a good idea. So how do you find a Mexican catering company? This article will give you a few basic guidelines to help you decide which Mexican catering company to select.

Fruit and Great Health

While there is life–and fruit–there is hope. When this truth is realised by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand professors of the healing art will be obliged to abandon their profession and take to fruit-growing for a living. Many people have heard vaguely of the “grape cure” for diseases arising from over-feeding, and the lemon cure for rheumatism, but for the most part these “cures” remain mere names.

History of Baking

Around 1 A.D., there were more than three hundred pastry chefs in Rome alone, and Cato wrote about how they created all sorts of diverse foods, and flourished because of those foods. Cato speaks of an enormous amount of breads; included amongst these are the libum (sacrificial cakes made with flour), placenta (groats and cress), spira (our modern day flour pretzels), scibilata (tortes), savaillum (sweet cake), and globus apherica (fritters).

Recommended Healthy Portion Sizes For Vegans and Vegetarians

Understanding and observing the suggested portions for the foods that you eat can help you to manage and maintain a healthy vegan or vegetarian diet. Did you know that one melon wedge can be equated to a ¾ cup of fruit juice? Or that a ½ cup of rice can equal one slice of bread? Do you know you many servings of fruits, vegetables, and grains are suggested for a balanced plant-based diet? Or what amount of tofu or peanut butter counts as a serving as far as meat substitution goes?

Iranian Cuisine

Iran is well known for its refined cuisine, and the delicate mixture of spices used to flavor many dishes. Iran of course traces its historical and cultural roots back more than two millenia to ancient Persia, and no doubt many Iranian dishes also have their roots in ancient Persia.

The Stevia Cookbook – Cooking With Nature’s Calorie-Free Sweetener

If you want your family to eat less sugar or you are trying to lose weight, this book would be an excellent addition to your cookbook library. It is full of helpful information about Stevia, the “sweet” herb that is also calorie free.