12 – 4 – 8?

No its not  lottery numbers (all though, if you play & win, we’d like a cut )

Twelve’s on Sale!!

Check it out in our brand new store

Word travels fast… especially when it’s about food

Will Travel For Booze…..

Eatthelist is on the Move!

Take a trip to D.C and check out  a guided wine tour @ Dino Restaurant & Enoteca.

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Drought threatens food shortage

Guatemala aims to truck food aid to more than 400,000 families in the coming months as a severe drought threatens food shortages, President Alvaro Colom said on Wednesday.

Colom declared a state of “calamity” over food supply in Guatemala, where a prolonged dry spell has reduced the harvest of staples like maize and beans by up to 50 percent.

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You can lead a mouse to food….

…but you can’t make it eat…..

Scientists led a rat to the fatty food, but they couldn’t make it eat. Using an animal model of binge eating, University of Missouri researchers discovered that deactivating the basolateral amygdala, a brain region involved in regulating emotion, specifically blocked consumption of a fatty diet. Surprisingly, it had no effect on the rat wanting to look for the food repeatedly.

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Read All About It!!

EattheList has teamed with a local Chef Alice Davis to introduce “twelve”. The first in  a series of cookbooks designed to provide easy to follow recipes for everyday dishes.

Check out Chef Alice and her cookbook in Our New Store!!

Don’t Croak!

What’s the matter? Frog in your throat?

That statement has a brand new meaning for Fred DeNegri, who found the remains of a frog in his Diet Pepsi.

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California Returns Foreign Foods

In light of a Central Valley water shortage the depart of social services began distributing emergency supplies… but … uh-oh supporting the people and not the community???

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Something to be said for not brushing your teeth…..

Ew….not really. But the bacteria living in your mouth do some good when it comes to the “retroaromatic effect”.  Have you ever had a good glass of Sauvignon Blanc?  That clean, crispy start followed by that sweet honeyed flavor at the finish? Well the flavors in the finish are part of the  retroaromatic effect.

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“Smart Choices”???

I guess it depends on who’s choosing?

Mayonnaise and Lunchables, while tasty and delicious are not on my list of healthy food items….

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Fast Food Mostly Feeds You Corn

Corn Fed Beef – That’s what you get when you go to McDonalds, Burger King or Wendy’s.  Honestly, that’s what you’re familiar with. The American palate has developed a taste for corn fed beef as our diets have shifted from “meat as garnish” to “meat as entree”.

So where does all this corn come from?  From the same farms that supply the sweet yellow veg. that takes the spotlight during the warmer months and makes its way into Chowders in the winter. There is no designated “cow corn”.

“U.S. corn agriculture has been criticized as environmentally unsustainable and conspicuously subsidized” (OUCH! – Harsh!!!) Read the rest of the article here