Coca-Cola Light Sango is a blood-orange flavoured variety of Coca-Cola Light/Diet Coke produced by The Coca-Cola Company, available in Belgium and later Luxembourg and France since mid-2006. It is the first variety of Coca-Cola to have been developed outside of the company’s Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters, primarily due to Belgium’s reputation as the world’s top consumer of Coke Light products per capita. Coke Sango’s production is also due, in part, to the success of previous citrus-flavoured varieties of Coke Light in Europe.
Coke Sango’s name is based on sang, the French word for blood, in reference to its blood orange flavouring.Coca-Cola Light Sango
This article appears in the latest edition of Calgary’s City Palate, and I’m pleased to share it here.
North American society has nearly killed its beloved hamburger.
The anti-fat movement, which shamed us into using extra lean ground beef, robbed the meat of most of its flavour. And worries about E coli contamination led to stringent regulation that pretty much requires today’s restaurants to cook the life out of their burgers. …
January 2009. Reviewers say the Proctor-Silex 31115 toaster oven provides excellent bang for the buck, with consistent performance and “surprising facility with frozen foods,” according to Real Simple editors. Other reviewers concur that the Proctor-Silex 31115 Toaster Oven excels at heating up frozen foods. Reviewers also find that this toaster oven has more features than many in its price class and compared to more expensive models like the Sanyo SK-VF7S (*est. $70). …
Rex Murphy offers his point of view, this week on the reactions to the Governor-General’s decision to eat raw seal during a community feast in Nunavut.
This is probably the vilest thing I’ve ever endured.
A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals expose of commercial meat production.
The video that all meat-eaters should watch and every vegetarian should own, “Meet Your Meat”, narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food. No PETA videos are copyrighted, so copy them for everyone you know.
Kate’s mocking her husband taking all the credit for the fantastic meals they prepare.
What a surprising twist on her usual comedic theme!
… It will be no ORDINARY main course. Men’s main courses are never ordinary. If they were, men would not cheapen themselves by preparing them. They would rather not participate in the dinner party at all than prepare something ordinary, or worst of all, vegetarian.
This extraordinary main course will require the death of an animal, perhaps the fiercest of animals. …
… Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach — what he calls nutritionism — and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context — out of the car and back to the table. Michael Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Pollan’s last book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. …
January 2009. Reviewers say the Proctor-Silex 31115 toaster oven provides excellent bang for the buck, with consistent performance and “surprising facility with frozen foods,” according to Real Simple editors. Other reviewers concur that the Proctor-Silex 31115 Toaster Oven excels at heating up frozen foods. Reviewers also find that this toaster oven has more features than many in its price class and compared to more expensive models like the Sanyo SK-VF7S (*est. $70). …
Rick McCharles 