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Alice Waters Salad Dressing

There’s a recipe for a salad dressing in a recent issue of New York Magazine that i thought would be worth mentioning as it is a basic recipe for a basic vinaigrette.  Why bother posting it?  well, because if you are someone that likes to throw a quick dressing together, the proportions of oil to vinegar here are a good reference:

Alice Waters’s Garlic Vinaigrette

1 small garlic clove
Salt
2 tbs. red-wine vinegar
Freshly ground black pepper
3 to 4 tbs. extra-virgin olive oil

anyways, if you want the full step by step review, go to the article.

Light Corn Syrup with Real Vanilla

Why?

I mean, is 32 fluid ounces going to be enough?

See, seeing things like this in the supermarket makes me think twice about accepting when someone offers me a homemade treat.

Disturbingly Descriptive Name for Teas

These herbal teas are “Herbal Stimulant Laxative” teas…you know, to get things moving.

I don’t know which one is more appealing, the image conjuring, “Chocolate Smooth Move” or “Get Regular.”

[source: the Ginger Midget]

Because Math and Food Go So Well Together

Yo, check it.  So there i was, eating a bagel, wondering how to make a mobius strip out of it.  Because, you know, lox and cream cheese are so much more fun to eat off of a non-orientable, single-sided strip of breading.  I mean, right???

But, alas, i couldn’t wrap my head around it, so i found this site instead, that shows you how to cut a bagel into two equal halves that linked together as if they were a portion of a chain.  And so I said to myself, “Self, that is pretty cool, let’s do that instead of the Mobius Strip thing.”

Full instructions - done with shockingly awesome use of the three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system - of how to make this brilliance of math and food can be found here.

Luna Bars Are Delicious to Both Men and Women

Described as, “bars created by women for women to meet the specific nutritional needs of active females…”  Luna bars are delicious.  Even to non females.  I was relieved to learn that, according to a contact at Clif (which makes Luna bars), 30% of Luna bar consumers are men.  phew.  good to hear.  Because, they are delicious.

But it makes me wonder about the marketing…so, it is clearly marketed to women.  That’s the target segment.  But so many of their consumers are men - clearly not their target audience.  Or was that the planned outcome all along?  hrm.  Assuming that male consumers are an unintended target segment, now that Clif bar knows that  30% of Luna sales are to men, do they change the marketing plan?  Will it impact sales negatively?

…just some marketing food for thought…wakka wakka