Kickin' Chicken in SPACE

Nice to see that the astronauts on the Space Station are not having to forgo spicy condiments due to zero G. Note FRED'S mainstay "Kickin' Chicken" in the upper middle of the picture. I traveled with Sriracha chili sauce in my car for a couple of years during my tenure at The Caravan of Dreams, until a particularly hot summer swelled the container up as round as a Chambord bottle. Peering into it as I opened the valve resulted in a nasty self-macing incident, wandering downtown Fort Worth blindly with chili sauce covering my face. Ahhh, the good old days...

Potpourri HATE...

When the weather gets chilly, I auto-pilot into stews, stocks, and soups. It's a great way to clear the fridge of those lurking veggies that are feeling "not so fresh". My disdain for potpourri is eclipsed by my love of the smell of a stewing pot on the stove. Here's some recipes from The Frugal Cafe:

Frugal Versions of Famous Soups: Ronald Reagan's Hamburger Soup, Soup Nazi's Cream of Sweet Potato Soup, and More

Leery of Your Cellphone? YOU SHOULD BE....

Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times

A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.

Through a mix of documents unearthed by Freedom of Information Act requests and the aforementioned recording, Soghoian describes how "the government routinely obtains customer records from ISPs detailing the telephone numbers dialed, text messages, emails and instant messages sent, web pages browsed, the queries submitted to search engines, and geolocation data, detailing exactly where an individual was located at a particular date and time."

In Vitro Meat

In-Vitro Meat -- aka tank steak, sci fi sausage, petri pork, beaker bacon, Frankenburger, vat-grown veal, laboratory lamb, synthetic shmeat, trans-ham, factory filet, test tube tuna, cultured chicken, or any other moniker that can seduce the shopper's stomach -- will appear in 3-10 years as a cheaper, healthier, "greener" protein that's easily manufactured in a metropolis. Its entree will be enormous; not just food-huge like curry rippling through London in the 1970's or colonized tomatoes teaming up with pasta in early 1800's Italy. No. Bigger. In-Vitro Meat will be socially transformative, like automobiles, cinema, vaccines.

H+ Article: Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives

Resources:

Will Lab Grown Meat Save the Planet?, Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/2191705/

Fake Meat, Wired UK
http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/08/features/fake-meat-burgers-grown-in-beakers.aspx

The world’s addiction to meat and how to grow ground beef in a test tube, Seed
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/why_in-vitro_meat_is_good_for_you/

Lab-Grown Steaks Near the Menu, New Sicentist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3208-labgrown-steaks-nearing-the-menu.html

Fight Climate Change with Soy Burgers, "In-Vitro Meat, Greenbang
http://www.greenbang.com/report-fight-climate-change-with-soy-burgers-in-vitro-meat_12300.html

I'll Have My Burger Petri-Dish Bred, with Extra Omega-3, Discover
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/oct/22-i.ll-have-my-burger-petri-dish-bred

Burn the Chill: Hot Dogs Hermosillo Sonora

Hitting Paris Cafes in 1800

Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de la Reynière, a French aristocrat during Napoleon's reign, was the Tim Zagat of his era. A true gourmand, he financed his voracious appetite by writing a series of guidebooks to the Paris's finest culinary establishments.

Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy: Paris via a 19th-Century Guide

NYTimes Slideshow

HOLIDAZE - Try the MULLED WINE

I love my Glühwein during the holidays. I picked up this annoying habit in England, where a hot beverage may literally shake your shivers while radiating a drunken warmth from the belly. Here's some How-To's:

Glühwein

Hot and Heavy: Vin Chaud

Mulled Wine