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i love the idea of chocolate vitamins!!

@maggie hoffman: is there anything that champagne is not super awesome with? : )

@itadakimasu!, it is quite possible there are some here in houston outside of the loop. sigh. it is mind boggling that anyone would go eat in one of those places when there is real tex-mex to be had on every corner. i guess it is the same as taco bell--those seem to be doing just fine. i guess if you cater to drunks who want to go to the drive thru after midnight, you have a winning formula no matter how awful the food.

and an animatronic funky bunch would be a bad thing???

sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top of the butter.

given all the time kenji seems to be putting into this, i wonder how people who don't get paid to be vegan for a month handle what seems to me like a lot of time spent figuring out how to feed yourself on a daily basis in a world that is not vegan-friendly. i suppose if you are a person who does not eat out a lot, the time would be less, because you are still cooking for yourself. another thing is the social aspect. i eat out with my work colleagues every single day. it is an important part of our small office culture, and also gets us out of the office during what can be long days. although i might survive it as a vegetarian, i could never do that as a vegan. the same for the rest of my social life, which revolves around bars and restaurants, for better or worse. i think that would be my biggest stumbling block to trying this. in my opinion, you cannot expect your friends or colleagues to constantly accommodate self-imposed food restrictions. (well, that and i like being an omnivore.)

"At first it was called Evolve Winery, but Ben told Wine Enthusiast that he wanted to distance the brand from the name he'd used for it on The Bachelorette "and make sure people take us seriously." So the name was changed to Envolve Winery. Why the added letter? "We added an 'n' because of our commitment to nature," he said."

Huh???

thanks, kenji. seems a bit hair splitting to me, but, hey, whatever you're into!!! live and let . . . oh, wait . . .

a link to an article in this week's nyt's magazine about the "gluten-free" industry. if being g-f means eating more processed, mass produced foods, count me out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/magazine/Should-We-All-Go-Gluten-Free.html?pagewanted=all

4 servings?

oatmeal? what? and what do you do with the yolks, which are really the only good part of the egg anyway?

i have to say, having spent four years in college in poughkeepsie, if you had told me twenty years ago when i graduated (okay, more than twenty--who is counting?) that any place in that town would rate a review anywhere, i would have thought you were crazy. i am heartened to think that po-town is coming up in the world.