When you’re in the mood for a comforting home-baked cookie, but don’t have the inclination to fire up the oven, call upon Sugar Flower Bakery. The small company makes classic comfort cookies that bring you back to childhood days in Mom’s or Grandmother’s kitchen, when nothing tasted better than homemade cookies, whipped up from scratch. If your family didn’t bake, we’re sorry; but you can still enjoy the experience one step removed. We love all the flavors; they make charming cookie gifts. People who love chocolate and mint are advised to buy a lot of the Chocolate Mint cookies. Read the full article, and check out our other favorite cookies in the Cookie Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine.
December 7, 2007 at 3:59 pm
· Filed under Restaurants
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is launching an upscale hamburger chain called Bobby’s Burger Palace. So far, leases for three units have been signed, and leases for five more units are in the pipeline. Flay plans to open five to 10 units a year. His business partner, Lawrence Kretchmer, made the announcement but did not provide specific locations of the three signed leases, but said that there is one under development in New Jersey and another in a Long Island mall. Top restaurant architecture firm Rockwell Group is designing the stores. Flay also owns Mesa Grill restaurants in Manhattan, Las Vegas and the Bahamas. Let’s hope the food meets Flay’s personal standards and he creates the burger chain of our dreams. We were so disappointed with our first two attempts at Wolfgang Puck’s chain restaurants, we feared to go back for a third meal. While you’re waiting for a Bobby’s Burger Palace to open near you, check out the burger-making tips in THE NIBBLE online magazine.
While it has only been tested in lab mice, a commercially available blueberry and grape fruit punch has had a significant effect on prostate cancer, reducing the growth of tumors by 25% in just two weeks. The mice were given a human version of the disease; scientists consider the results to be a great success, and want to see it tested in human patients. The drink, Blueberry Punch, is commercially available in Australia. It is a blend of blueberry, red grape, elderberry and raspberry fruit concentrates, plus extracts from a range of plant sources including grape skin and seeds, green tea and olive leaves. Other ingredients include the herb tarragon and the spices turmeric and ginger. The fruits are known for their high antioxidant values; green tea contains the powerful antioxidant epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), grapes are known for the powerful antioxidant resveratrol, and the anti-inflammatory agent curcumin is found in the spice turmeric. Dr. Jas Singh, who conducted the research at the University of Sydney in Australia, said that while individual phytochemicals are successful in killing cancer cells, synergistic or additive effects are likely to be achieved when they are combined—and this proved to be the case. She presented her results yesterday at the International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention and Research in Philadelphia. Find out more about Blueberry Punch at DrRed.com.au.
Love of broccoli and Brussels sprouts starts here. Photo by Denise Thuler | SXC.
Want your children to like fruits and vegetables? Start them young—in utero. According to scientists at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, a lifelong taste for fruit and vegetables can be instilled in babies before they are born: The taste is transferred to them through amniotic fluids in the womb. The process can be continued after birth, as taste and smell are also transferred to the infant through the mother’s milk. The implication: You can cut down on obesity and “train” your unborn children and infants to eat sensibly. Instill a taste for vegetables, such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts, instead of chocolate and potato chips. In the test, babies whose mothers had drunk vegetable juices when pregnant were much more disposed toward eating vegetables than those in the control groups. Older babies who were eating solids, but still receiving breast milk, rejected green beans until the mothers introduced them to their own diets. Can we can assume that Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of our 41st president, ate no broccoli when pregnant? Find some interesting veggies in the Vegetables Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine.
