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Gilpin Family Whiskey – it’s whiskey, made from pee!

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 2, 2010

“Whiskey,” to paraphrase Homer Simpson. “…is there nothing you can’t do?”

Apparently not, if you take James Gilpin as an example.

James Gilpin knows a bit of science behind the making and distilling of whiskey, and he knows that all he needs is some good sugar water to make the stuff. So, being a type-1 diabetic, Gilpin turned to one resource that he had readily available to him.

Introducing GILPIN FAMILY WHISKEY. It’s WHISKEY MADE FROM PEE. More specifically, the whiskey is made from the pee from diabetics, whose urine often contains high levels of sugar.

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One family’s quest to go one year without Disney

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 1, 2010
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Mousetrapped: A Year and a Bit in Orlando

Web Watch has to admire people like Lisa Ray.

Lisa has strong convictions and a big stick-to-it attitude that isn’t often seen elsewhere. She really does mean what she says, and says what she means. Good for her.

Lisa, the founder of PARENTS FOR ETHICAL MARKETING, was upset at how the Disney corporation handled a refund request for the Baby Einstein line of early-learning DVDs. Her reaction to those events (already documented elsewhere) led her to comment to her family, “I wish we could boycott Disney. But I don’t think we can. They’re too big.”

This got her 12-year-old daughter thinking, and she suggested that maybe they could go a year without Disney.

Lisa liked this idea so much, she decided that was exactly what she and her family were going to do: go A YEAR WITHOUT DISNEY.

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It’s easy to laugh at the Food Network, if you know where to look

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 27, 2010

The Next Food Network Star

Web Watch is a fan of Food Network.

We like to cook. We like to eat. We like to learn about new places to eat, new cooking techniques, and maybe have some fun along the way.

We’ve eaten at a number of Food Network-related restaurants: Guy Fieri’s JOHNNY GARLIC’s, Keegan Gerhard’s D BAR DESSERTS, Robert Irving’s EAT, and at any number of Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck locations across the country. Sometimes the food at the celebrity restaurants is merely adequate; other times it’s been phenomenal and has lived up to the hype. But the journeys to eat at each location are always worth the trips.

Web Watch is not alone in our enjoyment of Food Network. Over the years, Food Network has developed so much cooking- and food-related programming that they were able to program a second cable offering, Cooking Channel. Obviously, there’s a demand for Food TV.

But with the growth that Food Network has had, there had to be some speedbumps along the way to trip them up.

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10 Things food sports

How much money do competitive eaters make? On a per-calorie basis, not a whole lot of dough

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 26, 2010

Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

Competitive eating is not everything you may think it is. It’s not all glory on the playing field, and unless you really want to devote your life to travelling around the country in order to eat yourself silly, there really isn’t enough money to be made in eating contests to call being a “Professional Eater” a full-time career.

One has to wonder if the lack of cost-of-living raises is one of the reasons that Takeru Kobayashi, the former World Champion Hot Dog Eater, refused to sign a contract with the IFOCE and ended up rushing the stage at this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.

And considering the amount of effort that the IFOCE and ESPN put into making the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and its world-famous Mustard Yellow Belt a cultural lynchpin in our annual July 4th festivities, it’s really surprising that the NATHAN’S CONTEST WAS NOT THE COMPETITIVE EATING CONTEST WITH THE MOST PRIZE MONEY over the past year.

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How to determine the shelf life of foods in your pantry, freezer, or refrigerator

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 16, 2010

Mountain House canned food - 25 year long shelf life
Mountain House canned food – 25 year long shelf life

One common food joke is that Hostess Twinkies can survive through almost anything, with an infinite shelf life. Truth be told, the common Twinkie’s shelf life is a more realistic 25-days. Seriously – who even keeps Twinkies in the house that long?

Every once in a while, you should take the time to clean out your pantry. It’s not just a good idea from a re-organizational viewpoint, but also as a way to rotate the older foods you have stacked in the back of the cupboard towards the front so that they can be used in a more timely manner.

Yes, everything in your pantry has a shelf life – except for honey, which can pretty much be stored indefinitely. Sometimes things will merely go stale, such as crackers or cereals. Other pantry items will turn rancid and become inedible and should be tossed to prevent anyone from getting sick from eating it.

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Drink This, Not That: Lose weight through smarter drinking habits

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 15, 2010

Drink This, Not That!

Web Watch has always been a fan of the EAT THIS, NOT THAT series of books from Men’s Health, which boil down dieting and weight-loss to one simple task: you may not be exercising as much as you want to, and you may not be eating as healthy as you would like to — but making the right choices in eating can help offset the lack of exercise.

Remember, gaining and losing weight is paritally to do with the number and type of calories and fat that you take in. So change your meals, and even if you do nothing else – you should lose some weight simply by eating better.

The premise of their latest book, DRINK THIS, NOT THAT concentrates specifically on beverages, and what you should substitute when you go out for a drink. Not a lot has changed between the 2009 DRINKS YOU SHOULD DRINK, AND DRINKS THAT YOU SHOULDN’T and the 2010 LIST OF DRINK THIS, NOT THAT CONTENDERS, so let’s take a look at some of what’s listed in their HALL OF SHAME:

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Chocolate Oreo ice cream done in 40 seconds – The BlendTec Recipe

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 9, 2010
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Web Watch enjoys watching the WILL IT BLEND videos on YouTube. Whether it be a blender full of marbles, a broom handle, or an iPhone — the BlendTec Total Blender makes fast work of turning those items into inedible shrapnel.

As they say – don’t try these experiments at home.

But there’s something about having a blender with over 1600 watts of ice crushing power that makes you say, “we gotta have that”. In part because we’ve blown through other blenders when trying to go through different food prep over the years, and in part it’s because Web Watch wants to have the option to shred a jar full of marbles.

We may never do it, but it’s nice to know that we could if we had to.

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Do you LOVE to cook? That’s what three in ten people say about themselves

Post author By web gangsta
Post date August 3, 2010

Kiss the Cook

Web Watch knows our way around a kitchen, even if it is to help someone else prepare a meal. That’s because we know that people approach the kitchen as one of three groups:

Some people love to cook. It’s in their blood. These are the people you always are sure to invite to the local potluck dinner or bake sale.
Some people don’t mind cooking – they just know how to make food that is edible enough to survive on. It won’t be fancy, but don’t expect anything spectacular. The majority of people out there should fall into this category.
And there’s the third group that doesn’t know their way around a kitchen. Web Watch knows someone who claims to be so inept in the kitchen that they can burn a pot of water. (They tend to order out a lot.)

So it should come as no surprise that a recent Harris Poll of over 2000 adults discovered that THREE IN TEN AMERICANS (about a third) LOVE TO COOK.

Here’s the breakdown of that stat: 79% of adults said they liked cooking, while only 30% said they loved cooking. 49% said that they only enjoy cooking when they have the time. 14% said they did not enjoy cooking at all, and 7% of survey respondents said that they did not cook at all.

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