Category: food

I’m a COFFEE ACHIEVER

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The National Coffee Association in 1984 PROVED the benefits of my favourite addiction.

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Study: Coffee Addiction Validated by Improved Sports Performance

… Caffeine, it turns out, actually works. And it is legal, one of the few performance enhancers that is not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. …

Exercise physiologists have studied caffeine’s effects in nearly every iteration: Does it help sprinters? Marathon runners? Cyclists? Rowers? Swimmers? Athletes whose sports involve stopping and starting like tennis players? The answers are yes and yes and yes and yes.

Starting as long ago as 1978, researchers have been publishing caffeine studies. And in study after study, they concluded that caffeine actually does improve performance. In fact, some experts, like Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky of McMaster University in Canada, are just incredulous that anyone could even ask if caffeine has a performance effect. …

NY Times – It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run

all-you-can-eat restaurants

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In the 1990s I spent a month in Trinidad, the most developed economy in the Caribbean.

When I asked the young guys there what they liked about the States — young people all wanted to move to Canada or the USA — they told me: all-you-can-eat restaurants.

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Me too.

When on the road I typically replace breakfast with coffee. Then schedule a big, late lunch at an Asian buffet. And snack in the evening.

The last one I visited for $9.99 included Sushi and a Mongolian Grill.

The only downside … Asian deserts.

Yuck!

Everything I Know About Barbecue, I Learned From Rockin’

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Now he’s carrying coal to Newcastle. Barbecue to Texas.

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In his day job, Ron Shewchuk is a business consultant who helps organizations communicate better with their employees. In his spare time, he’s built a second career as his alter-ego, Rockin’ Ronnie, international barbecue champion and bestselling cookbook author.

A few years ago Shewchuk had a crazy idea to combine his lifelong passions for outdoor cooking and indoor business communications. The result: a combination multi-course meal and keynote address called “Everything I Know About Communication, I Learned From Barbecue.”

Shewchuk is bringing his smoke-infused business wisdom to Houston’s famed Armadillo Palace on February 26, where he’ll deliver his talk to the local chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. His visit is timed to coincide with The World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest, the first big event of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. …

… read the whole article – Market Watch – Canadian Barbecue Guru Mixes Business with Brisket

the Bacon Explosion

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The Bohunk of Funk — Rockin’ Ronnie — informed me of the latest Barbecue sensation.

Here’s what you’ll need…

2 pounds thick cut bacon
2 pounds Italian sausage
1 jar of your favorite barbeque sauce
1 jar of your favorite barbeque rub …

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BBQ Addicts – recipe

The New York Times is covering the Bacon Explosion internet phenomenon.

I love Aussie Licorice

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I love all licorice.

But best of all is Aussie soft licorice.

It was one of the highlights when I lived in New Zealand.

In Canada the imported stuff is far too expensive. Except for one locally made brand, President’s Choice.

Legend has it, Down Under at least, that soft-eating licorice came to be quite by accident. – the fortuitous creation of a careless Australian candymaker. Fact or fiction, make no mistake about it, this is the way licorice was meant to taste.

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President’s Choice