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Friday, June 4, 2010
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Grow Your Own Beer Garden Kit
“You will find it fun, rewarding, and tasty to grow your own beer making plants. With the Grow Your Own Beer Garden kit, the plants sprout and grow quickly and easily. You’ll get the magic three: hops – the flavoring and stability agent of beer; barley – integral in making beer and able to regulate blood sugar levels for up to ten hours after consumption; and wheat – used to aid in fermentation and is the second most produced food in the world. All three of these plants fuse together (like a libationary Voltron) to make great beer! So get a Grow Your Own Beer Garden kit now. The plants you grow today could become the beer you drink tomorrow.”
Source:- Think Geek
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Top 10 of smelly cheese
I do not know where, but for Ukraine, for example, scientists odorologi zazombirovali customers: cheese more expensive, because it is the product of decay, rot and now expensive. The natural process of decomposition of protein molecules always causes controversy - for 95% of ignorant consumers a "phew!" For 5% of the discerning gourmet is "FAS" and "take!".
The world is produced and consumed by many kinds of cheese, which, to put it mildly, reek. In comparison with many of the cheese-making fragrances worn 3 days crepe socks neighbor dipso - mere roses (jasmine, osmanthus, lavender, etc.). Choose a Top Ten fetid cheese world was for us a daunting task. But, putting the best masks with gopkalitovymi cartridges, and entering into contracts with the most persistent tasters, we have achieved some results.
And there was a prize vonyuchenkaya ten-cheese. Let's start with the most "tolerant".
Source:- Neobychno
Vodka in tubes
The revolution in the culture of drinking alcohol was accomplished when the founders of the Austrian company Wenger Corporation idea to pour vodka into aluminum tubes. This is how the famous vodka GO - the first alcoholic drink in the tubes, which were previously used in the food industry, only to pack sauces and pastes.
Innovative product GO made the present furor and brought international fame to its creators. Alcoholic drinks in colored tubes eksportirutsya in 15 countries, and in 2007 appeared on sale in the U.S. and Australia.
Source:- ziza.ru
10 Beautiful Bridges Around the World
Bridges are considered to be the incredible engineering achievements today. Their extraordinary constructions and design bring them in the focus of attention. The most famous of them have even become a well-known tourist attractions. Due to their unique features they have achieved the vast popularity and millions of foreign people try to visit them during their trips. Today we present you the most awesome of them (from our point of view). This post shows various examples of bridges: the old and the modern concepts, footbridges and rail-and-road bridges, swing bridges, floating bridges, hanging bridges etc.
Peace Bridge (designed by Santiago Calatrava)
Banpo Bridge (South Korea)The Fountain Bridge
Carr Bridge (Scotland)
Chengyang Bridge (Sanjiang of Guangxi Province, China)
Gateshead Millennium Bridge (Gateshead to Newcastle, UK)
Lu Pu Bridge (China)
Magdeburg Water Bridge (Magdeburg, Germany)
Nanpu Bridge (Shanghai, China)
New Footbridge (Edinburgh)
Ponte Vecchio (Florence, Italy)
Source:- designfloat
World Largest Cheese Sculpture Guinness Record
A 'cheese wedding cake' expert is hoping to smash the world record for the largest cheese sculpture with her half-ton cheddar crown.
Cordon Bleu trained chef Tanys Pullin, 46, spent 90 hours crafting it out of a 1,322lb block of Farmhouse Cheddar. She carved the sculpture in the shape of a crown to mark the anniversary of the Queen's Coronation on June 2.
After completing it yesterday Tanys said she was nervous but thrilled after completing the large-scale carving.
'I'm elated but it was very daunting,' she said. 'Can you imagine being given a massive round cheese and told you have to go into a fridge on one of the hottest days of the year to carve it?
'I was given a 600kg block of cheese. I spent about eight days carving the crown and did 12-hour sessions which did get a bit chilly in the fridge. 'Now it weighs just below 500kg which blows the current record out of the sky.'
To achieve the Guinness World Record the crown sculpture needed to weigh in excess of 290 kg (101lbs). Tanys's effort is just awaiting the validation from Guinness adjudicators.
Rules state that the sculpture must be made from a single piece of cheese and is not allowed to be supported by an internal structure.
Though she regularly makes wedding cakes out of cheese Tanys, from Wells, Somerset had never tried her hand at cheese sculpting on this scale before.
'My job is to make things out of cheese, but I don't normally sculpt them,' said Tanys.
'I'm a genuine cheesaholic.
'I live, breath and work with cheese most of the time. It's a great medium to work with.
'It's looking fab and I'm delighted. I hope other people will enjoy it too.'
The self-proclaimed Nigella Lawson of the cheese world began her career as a chef in London before owning her own cheese company in Dorset.
'I was trained in London at the Cordon Bleu school,' said Tanys. 'I then worked for several years for the Leadenhall Wine Company running their restaurant and now I have my own cheese company in Dorset.
'I am the cheese wedding cake goddess. I'm like the Nigella Lawson of the cheese world.'
Kevin Beer, who acted as a cheese consultant for the attempt, said he knows how unpredictable cheese can be.
He said: 'Working with a natural material such as cheddar presents a whole host of obstacles.
'If you leave it to its own devices in a normal environment it will develop a mould. To prevent this, Tanys will need to keep the sculpture at a low and constant temperature.
'She will also need to spray it constantly with olive oil and wrap it up at the end of each session in damp cheese cloth to keep it moist and prevent cracking.'
The sculpture will be unveiled on the June 2 at this year's Royal Bath and West Show.
Source:- BBC
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Turtle Boy
A youngster dubbed turtle boy by cruel bullies is starting a new life after a miracle two hour operation to remove a giant shell of hard skin from his back.
Maimaiti Hali, eight - from Heping, northern China - was born with a hard, mutated growth covering most of his back.
Dad Maimaiti Musai said: "We were told surgery wasn't possible when he was very young so we waited. But the growth got bigger and harder and became like a turtle shell.
"People bullied him and we were determined to end it. He is such a good and brave boy and he never complained. We are so glad that he is now on the mend."
Medics at Urumqi Military General Hospital say they have cut away the growth and replaced it with skin grafts from Hali's scalp and legs.
Chief surgeon Ye Xiangpo explained: "The skin we removed was as thick as a bull's hide. We used scalp hair on the graft because it grows back very quickly. We expect him to make a full recovery."
Hali added: "It was a bit painful, but I won’t worry about other kids laughing at me any more. I am looking forward to going out in the sun without my shirt on and to going swimming with my friends."
Source:- Daily Telegraph