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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Amsterdam Falafelshop

Friday, November 30, 2007

Cat took me to Amsterdam Falafelshop during my recent visit to Washington, D.C. It’s now on my list of all-time favorite restaurants, or at least divey hole-in-the-walls. I’m jonesing for one of their sandwiches right now — crispy-soft falafel nestled in a warm pita, topped with all sorts of everything from a veritable salad bar [...]

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Affordable organic

Thursday, November 29, 2007

The benefits of organic food and sustainable agriculture are becoming more widely known, but it’s still pretty expensive to switch to an all-organic diet. In a recent New York Times health blog post Five Easy Ways to Go Organic, author Tara Parker-Pope suggests a few foods that are affordable and make the biggest impact on [...]

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Frango Mints in a tube…and a bottle

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Skin care and beauty line philosophy has introduced two Frango Mint-scented products just in time for the holidays. Inspired by Marshall Field’s famous chocolate mint meltaways, these bath and beauty treats smell so good you’ll be tempted to squeeze them straight into your mouth. You can almost do that with the frango mint diet lip [...]

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What’s the word? Free rice

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free rice for the hungry: play a vocabulary game at FreeRice.com, and for each word you define correctly, the website will donate ten grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme. This may not sound like much, but since the website’s inception [...]

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wasabigelatine’s 2007 holiday gift guide

Monday, November 26, 2007

Last Christmas a friend of mine received a Starbucks gift card from his boss. Not a very original gift, but it’s the thought that counts. And that thought must’ve been “I don’t want to offend you by not getting anything but I really couldn’t care less, so let’s see what’s in the lobby. Oh hey, [...]

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