Holidays: Honey Cake For Rosh Hashanah

Celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, with a delicious honey cake from The Exceptional Brownie. Claire Sauerhoff bakes her cakes with premium honey, heart healthy canola oil and dancing spices. Certified kosher (OU Pareve), the very  moist cakes are available in a mini loaf (8 ounces) and a large loaf (serves 12, 24 ounces),…
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News: Diet At The Cheesecake Factory

Our favorite chain restaurant, The Cheesecake Factory, has added to its popular Weight Management menu category with the addition of a Weight Management Grilled Chicken, a lightly-pounded chicken breast, charbroiled and topped with a tomato and arugula salad. The plate is garnished with steamed white rice (tell them to hold the rice—too bad they didn’t…
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Fun & Learning: Measure Your Carbon Footprint

Start your day with a bowl of organic breakfast cereal. Organic food production does not create greenhouse gases. If every American converted 10% of our foods to organic, it would be the equivalent of taking 2 million car off the road each year.   Measure your carbon footprint with the Ecological Footprint Calculator. It’s eye-opening—and…
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New Product: Can Chocolate Predict The New President?

Some people look to the Gallup, Zogby and Harris polls to gauge the presidential preference of the American public. But chocolatier B.T. McElrath is measuring public opinion on a “gut” level: chocolate sales. “Campaign Buttons,” round dark chocolate melt-a-ways that have been selling like—hotcakes?—since early June. They feature cocoa butter images of Democrat or Republican…
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