Drinking a cup of coffee daily will enhance your metabolism which will make you have a feel-good experience and therefore have a wonderful and fruitful day. The easiest way to get a daily dose of top-quality coffee is by subscribing to a service. Signing up for a craft coffee subscription will give you the best experience for …
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Three Fun and Easy Date Ideas
One of the hardest things about being in a long-term relationship is keeping the magic alive. Sometimes, keeping things interesting can be tricky or difficult. If you’re ready to re-ignite the passion in your relationship, it’s time to start dating again. Did you know that many couples choose to go on regular, scheduled dates together? …
5 Handy BBQ Safety Tips
BBQ season is coming and fire safety should be a priority when it comes to handling open flames. Below are a few tips for safe grill use this summer. Never Start a Charcoal Grill With Gasoline The fumes from gasoline are highly flammable. You should only use the correct starting fluid for charcoal grills. The …
How Can I Make My Restaurant More Successful?
If you want 2017 to be the year that your restaurant attains unprecedented levels of success, now is the time to implement business-building strategies. Below you’ll find three techniques that can help make your restaurant increasingly successful in the coming months: 1. Buy New Equipment. Updating your restaurant equipment is a wonderful way to ensure …
The Importance of Storing Food at the Correct Temperature
Storing food at the incorrect temperature not only causes it to spoil faster, but it can also result in food poisoning. For caterers, restaurants and commercial kitchens, storing food properly is essential, as salmonella and other bacteria can quickly form undetected, posing a huge threat to guests. Image Credit Food poisoning is most commonly caused …
ALERT! Pie Crust Update!
Ah, pie! Who doesn’t love pie? Custard pie, pumpkin pie, berry pie, meringue pie, ‘mater pie… and any good – or merely beloved – pie chef has his or her favorite crust ‘secrets’ that draw the oohs and ash from their intended pie-audience. Now, there are different sorts of pie crusts for different sorts of …
Corporate Food & Human Backlash
The current collapse of the world financial system has revealed some structural problems in our national economy that have flourished over a period of decades as corporate interests bought politicians and lobbyists to craft legislation to remove legal roadblocks to mass theft and market manipulation. And despite some changes in the D.C. political landscape, our …
“Food Junkie” Takes New Meaning
With the Thanksgiving feast now reduced to composted leftovers and the month-long year-end celebration of indulgence ahead of us, it should come as no big surprise to most that there’s a reason we humans have such a shortage of dietary willpower when it comes to all those sweets and goodies on the seasonal menu. Consider, …
USDA: Sequester Impacts
We homesteaders are among the citizens who pay a good deal of attention to the programs and operations of both state and federal agricultural departments because they can directly affect us (for good or ill). We often make use of our state ag departments’ extension services for education in things like beekeeping, land use, community …
An Early July of Biblical Proportions
The first week of July here in the southern Appalachians has been positively diluvian. That means we’ve had so much rain – falling at the rate of 1-2 inches an hour spaced in waves throughout the day and night – that I’ve literally considered that I ought to build an ark. Worst day of all …