Ever have a taste for something and couldn’t quite figure out what it was? Maybe it was kpwem and you didn’t know it or how it’s prepared. Also known as Feuilles de Manioc, kpwem is a dish commonly prepared in the southern regions of Cameroon, the main ingredients include peanuts, palm oil, cassava or manioc leaves. Wash your worries away with some Cardamom tea, not from the same region, but I’m sure it’s just delicious all the same. Anywho, “The Congo Cookboook” has you covered with over 150 recipes from Africa as well as some cool proverbs from the different regions.
Clothing Optional Dinners
Depending on who you invite this idea might very well spoil your appetite.
Despite the bitter cold weather, nudists in New York are
now holding “Clothing Optional” dinners in the city.
Says one frequent nude diner, George Keyes, 65, a retired junior high school English teacher: ”It’s exciting to be
in a restaurant nude.” Is it now? Maybe for you, but what about those biting into their risotto and gazing
at your mounds of wrinkled flab? Waiter! Barf bag, please.
One woman Sandy, who is in her 40s, said she “never felt self-conscious about her body”, in fact she enjoys dining
in the nude, but when it comes to naked yoga class, she gets a bit more modest. Yes,
certain asanas are just not
meant to be done in the nude. Doesn’t this remind you of a certian
Seinfeld episode?
Wine Country
Ever notice how eople are strangely motivated to do the stuff they
see in movies? You know all those movie tours that are sprouting up these days? Well, add to that the impact the film
Sideways is having on tours in the wine country. Apparently
places in Santa Inez valley, where the film was made, are experiencing a big
increase in visitors due to people seeing the film and thinking, hey, I need to get drunk and pick up women just before
I get married too (or so I understand the film’s plot, having not seen it yet). Anyway, kind of an interesting phenom
that must have marketing people everything thinking, how do I get my restaurant in the next
Oscar-nominated film?
Things That Make You Go, Hmm…
Carol Birmingham, a 62-year-old, British tourist, is quite fortunate that there are still honest people in the
world. In a short report from
USA Today, Birmingham mistakingly
left her cash-stuffed purse on the counter of an Orlando McDonald’s while ordering her meal. It must have been
one AWESOME burger as she didn’t realize she had misplaced the money, to be used for a down payment on her
vacation home, until the following day. Hmm… $8,700!!! Luck was on her side though, a
young woman and the assistant manager turned the purse over to the local sheriff’s office. Whew!
Make Your Own Espresso Machine
Jason Striegel over at engadget.com has posted a
killer “how-to” on making your own portable espresso
machine. I thought the device might make a cool camping device, something you could tote along in your pack to have
some tasty, uplifting beverage while your out on a trip. The device he makes is probably a bit too large to be
practical for long hauls, but you could use smaller PVC than he shows and become the camp’s favorite outdoor barista.
Room for milk?