Posted by Hannah Howard, June 10, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Red Bull, Lipton, and Pepsi: coming to a McDonald's near you?
In January, McDonald's announced its entrance into the coffee specialty drinks wars. Now there's another way to get your caffeine fix under the Golden Arches.
If you're bored of the obligatory Coke with your Big Mac and fries, you're in luck—McDonald's is testing the sale of bottled and canned drinks in about 150 locations. The long lineup includes Red Bull, Diet Lipton Green Tea, and products from PepsiCo, archrival to McDonald's longtime fountain beverage bedfellow Coca-Cola. AdAge.com reports that the company is trying to lure customers who are going elsewhere for their energy drinks and VitaminWaters.
Posted by Erin Zimmer, May 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Date Shake sign at Hadley Fruit Orchards. Photograph from kthread on Flickr
California is a date mecca, especially in the southern half near Palm Springs. The prune-resembling pellets are packed with natural sugars, which makes them a great—yet shocking to outsiders—ingredient for milkshakes. The goal is to achieve a paste-like texture with minimal chunks and top it with a shake of nutmeg.
When I recently mentioned this to a New Yorker friend, she responded, "Wait, milkshakes you drink on a date?" I mean, that's possible. But in the Coachella Valley and Inland Empire regions of California, where date farms are abundant, it's the default shake flavor over vanilla or chocolate. Here are some favorite date shake spots.
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Posted by Gina DePalma, February 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM
The height of citrus season is just starting to wind down here in Rome, and I feel an urgent need to get in on as much of the action as I can in the next month or so. Luckily the tiny fruitteria just outside my door is still piled high each day with an astounding assortment of oranges, tangerines, clementines, and lemons.
Other signs of citrus mania are evident on trips to the market. Huge takeaway buckets of sweet oranges are conveniently stacked at the front of my supermercato—there seemed to be one sitting in every creaking, wheeled cart I passed the other day. Even shoppers running in and out for a quart of milk and a pack of toilet paper were grabbing a sagging, red net bag of mandarins on their way to the register. I chose to participate this week with a pyramid of clementines stacked on my kitchen counter; they are like little wet, drippy, squirting balls of candy.
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