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For last week's Tiny Desk Kitchen, Allison Aubrey conducted a blind taste test of grass-fed and corn-fed beef. The participants, Ari Shapiro and Susan Stamberg, actually thought the grain-fed beef was tastier and tenderer, but as Shapiro explained at the end, "On the basis of taste alone, I prefer [corn-fed beef]. I would choose to order something that I knew was more sustainable even if I found it to be a little less tender or a little less beefy tasting."For last week's Tiny Desk Kitchen, Allison Aubrey conducted a blind taste test of... more
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The Isabel Marant Otway Boot Sparks a Craze, (and boots up the booty)
The day after French designer Isabel Marant unveiled her Fall/Winter 2009 collection in Paris in March, the Web sites for boutiques across the U.S. were flooded with emails about studded ankle-high boots, asking when they would be arriving and whether they could be ordered in advance.
Monika Beurmann, a 35-year-old IT consultant from Chicago, says that while looking at the fashion show on Style.com, she "fell in love with the futuristic design of the heel," and
pr e-ordered a pair from Diani, a boutique in Santa Barbara, Calif.
The boots in question, which didn't hit stores until September, are called "Otway," and they can fairly be called the "It" boots of the season. Made of supple suede, the cuffed booties are adorned with rows of circular studs and are held up by a four-inch triangular heel.
Those who are still interested in owning them can forget about it. With the exception of a few pairs on eBay, they are out of stock nearly everywhere, despite a $1,295 price tag.
Mary Blair, a 45-year-old mother of three from Santa Barbara, recently got her boots after being on a wait list for two months. Upon seeing the Otway style in a magazine, "I just thought, 'Oh my god I have to have those.' They kept creeping their way into my brain," she says.
The edgy boots were a departure for Ms. Marant, who is known for her bohemian style. In an email, she said that the inspiration for the Otway came from "this need to…push back a little against the look for my short silk chiffon print dresses."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703478704574611953724468432.html?mod=article-outset-boxThe Isabel Marant Otway Boot Sparks a Craze, (and boots up the booty)
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A brave adventurer holds an epic taste test to see which tasty bevarage would accompany him in an adventure to the Underdark!A brave adventurer holds an epic taste test to see which tasty bevarage would... more
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Here's the new taste sensation — your tongue might be able to taste calcium.
The capability to taste calcium has now been discovered in mice. With these rodents and humans sharing many of the same genes, the new finding suggests that people might also have such a taste.
The four tastes we are most familiar with are sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Recently scientists have discovered tongue molecules called receptors that detect a fifth distinct taste — "umami," or savory.
"But why stop there?" asked researcher Michael Tordoff, a behavioral geneticist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. "My group has been investigating what we believe is another taste quality — calcium."
So assuming the human palate can detect calcium, what does the mineral taste like?Here's the new taste sensation — your tongue might be able to taste... more
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A glass of tap water has beaten bottled mineral waters costing thousands of times as much in a blind taste test by some of the most experienced palates in Britain. Experts including a leading sommelier and a wine critic put a glass of Thames Water's standard tap water at third equal in a tasting of 24 different waters. The water, from a tap in South Kensington, London, costs less than 1p a litre but was rated higher than mineral waters costing £50.
A glass of tap water has beaten bottled mineral waters costing thousands of times as... more
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