Culinary Medicine

"It examines the diversity and variety of pre-war American cuisine. Using abandoned documents from the Federal Writers Project, Kurlansky looks at a forgotten America where food varied greatly from city-to-city and state-to-state." - ben lorica

SF Chronicle Top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area (2009 edition): http://www.sfgate.com/food... - ben lorica

On KQED: http://www.kqed.org/tv... - ben lorica

"The Philippines may not have much of a reputation as a culinary destination but it has produced a number of top-notch chefs who've made a mark in global kitchens, often thanks to Eugenio "Gene" Gonzalez. Chef, restaurateur, best-selling author and teacher rolled into one, Gonzalez was a former bond market dealer who set up his first restaurant, Cafe Ysabel, at the age of 23, and it's still going strong 27 years later." - ben lorica

Longevinex supplement: http://longevinex.com/ - ben lorica

We visited Maveric a few years ago and got a personal, extended tour from owners Bret Kortie and Arie McFarlen. This is very sad news! - ben lorica

Their web site is here: http://maveric9.com/ - ben lorica

"Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and a leading figure in the animal rights movement, compares Proposition 2 to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, calling Proposition 2 the “other historic ballot this November.” If it passes, it would affect more animals — almost 20 million — than any ballot measure has in U.S. history." - ben lorica

"The ballot initiative, which voters will decide on Nov. 4, requires that by 2015 farm animals be able to stand up, lie down, turn around and fully extend their limbs. In effect that translates into a ban on the two-foot-wide crates that tightly confine pregnant pigs and calves raised for veal — a space so small that they can’t turn around. And it would eliminate so-called battery cages where four or more hens share a space about the size of a file drawer." - ben lorica