Reasons I Love You Stones

There are many reasons why you love your loved one, and with these Reasons I Love You stones, you can share them all. Each reason is etched onto a brushed nickel stone. Reasons include “for always getting my jokes” and “because I just do!” Set of nine stones comes in a red, faux-suede pouch

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 Green Your Caffeine: Press, Please

If you’re like us, you need a jolt of caffeine to start your day, especially on these cold winter mornings. You already know to buy organic , fair-trade , and shade-grown coffee and tea, so this week we’re giving you other tips for making your daily cup eco-friendlier.

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 Twitter for Food Bloggers

Why should you join Twitter if you haven’t already? For starters, it’s a great medium for sharing and discovery. I’ve discovered countless new food blogs, trends and restaurants (and plenty of worthless/fascinating celebrity gossip too) through my interactions with the Foodista Twitter community.

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 Hunger Challenge Week Day 3

In my house we like Asian flavors. Pad thai, swimming rama, coconut curry, and teriyaki are frequent visitors on my plate. In the spirit of Hunger Week, I’ll share my curry recipe that only costs $1.30 per serving, including brown rice.

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 Ramen Gets Old Fast – Resources for Cheap Recipes

How much can you handle? We at Foodista have spent the week considering what it would be like to subsist on $7 a day.  A week of $7 eating is difficult, but sadly many have to do it every day of their lives.  To have to think of a new meal to cook every evening is difficult anyway – to think of one within a rigid budget is even more challenging.  Fortunately, others have already done it.  Here are a few places to find great recipes for cheap, cheap meals.

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 How to teach physics to your dog

There have been rough guides, books for dummies, even howtos for idiots, but Chad Orzel is probably the first to take explain an important corner of human endeavour solely to his dog in How to teach physics to your dog . Ironically, the subject on which he focuses, physics, is a realm usually the preserve of probabilistically ill-fated cats. Nevertheless, Orzel uses humour and clarity to explain the ins and outs of black holes and quantum entanglement to his dog and along the way teaches us some of the fundamentals the vexed the greats, among them Bohr and Einstein

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 Check out Foodista’s New Widgets

Pomegranate If you haven’t been to Foodista for awhile, well, you are in for a treat. We have some pretty awesome new widgets that our engineers and designers have been tinkering with and they were thinking of your blog when they designed them! I’m not kidding, just like before, each page on Foodista has its own widget, but now you can customize them specifically for your blog

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 Hunger Challenge Week Day 2

For yesterday’s $7.00 hunger challenge, it was all about purchasing a couple items and re-purposing those items for multiple dishes.  I was talking with someone about the beauty of using leftover spelt and polenta for breakfast, say as a warm cereal or even added on  the side of some fried eggs.  So the day before, I made a pan of polenta  to use for two or three meals this week.

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 Possibly the Best $10 Wine in the World

As a wine buyer operating in a recession/depression/meltdown, my mantra is: Cheap and Cheerful . I want my salespeople to bring me fun, eclectic, tasty, interesting wines for under ten bucks. Very rarely, however, do I find what I call a WOW wine that I feel is not just good, but great considering it is below the ten dollar threshold.

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 Research Blogging

If you blog about peer-reviewed research, then you’ve probably heard about ResearchBlogging.org by now. It’s an aggregator that pulls together posts from around the world that have added a snippet of code to identify themselves as blogging about peer-reviewed research. The keen-eyed regulars among you will have spotted the occasional “green-tick” icon next the references I cite in my blog posts here and on the sibling sites Sciencetext and SciScoop, which flags them for the Research Blogging system

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 NHL Table Top Hockey Table Game

A slightly slimmed down version of the classic bubble hockey game, this table top set is sure to delight kids of all ages. Made by Stiga, the table top hockey game measures 37″ x 20″ and is available in Red Wings vs.

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 Retro-fabulous Aprons

Came across this retro and quite fun looking apron today from SwizzleStix. Three convenient to use pockets are situated on the front of the apron to make utensils easier to keep track of while you cook away. The cocktail inspired apron is available in other colors as well and if this one’s not quite

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 Melamine’s on sale again

The Associated Press and others are reporting that milk products tainted with the toxic chemical melamine are on sale again in China. Melamine-tainted milk products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.

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 Lovely Sarah Jessica Parker Gift Set

Give this gift to the lady in your life this Valentine’s Day and she’s sure to smell lovely. This gift set by Sarah Jessica Parker features Bath/Shower Gel, Body Lotion, and eau de Parfum

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 Silver Fingerprint Pendant

A great gift idea for anyone for Valentine’s Day, and in particularly a new mom, this silver fingerprint pendant is made for an imprint of a baby’s fingerprint. Made of recycled silver, the company will send a kit to help you capture your little one’s fingerprint

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 Kate Spade Left & Right Gloves

Kate Spade’s left/right gloves are perfect in case you ever get a bit confused as to which glove is for which hand. Not only are the gloves clearly marked but also have different colors to further differentiate. Made of 100% merino wool

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 A Big Thank You to All Our Foodista Contributors

We want to give a big thank you to everyone involved in Foodista this past year! We’ve highlighted some of our loyal users who have joined us in our online kitchen and found Foodista helpful to them. A link to our testimonial page can be found here. We continue to work hard at creating tools to help all you passionate food bloggers! Here’s to all of us building the best online cooking encyclopedia! I learned about Foodista shortly after entering this rapidly evolving food blog world and it’s been a great discovery!  Not only do I find the information helpful for my posts, I appreciate how easy it is to add my own input and occasional insights.  And I really like how easy it is to link the relevant Foodista page to my blog, so that readers can easily jump to recipes and more, from Abiu to Zesting! Thanks, Jeremy Warner http://basiceating.blogspot.com/ Earlier this year I had the chance to attend the International Food Bloggers Conference here in Seattle, sponsored by Foodista and Sur La Table.

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 Sun Jar

This unique jar stores the sun in the daytime so that it can be used as a light source at night. Includes a solar powered cell and rechargeable battery, with an automatic LED light that comes on when it gets dark and gives up to 5 hours of light. Can be turned off when not in

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 Ribs and Rosé: The Ultimate BBQ Match

A drab, dreary January in Seattle ( is there any other kind? ) could not defeat my desire to indulge in my favorite summer duo: ribs and rosé. I am done with the notion that Zinfandel is the ultimate wine with BBQ

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 Indian urban wetland heavy metal

A study of heavy metal contaminants in the urban lakes of India, particularly around Bangalore have revealed that attempts at mitigation meant to remove these pollutants have not so far worked and may not be a long-term remedy for the problem. I’ve provided more detail on the analysis in the Atomic ezine on SpectroscopyNOW this week, but also wanted to provide some additional background for readers and so I had a few questions for Aboud Jumbe of the Department of Environmental Science, at Bangalore University, Jnana Bharathi Campus who works with N.

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