For those too cowardly to eat the hot stuff, take heart. Even the mild stuff is good for you.
Category Archives: Health & Diet
Make: Online : You can be identified by the germs you leave behind
Interesting and frightening news from the world of viruses and bacteria.
Straight out of Gattaca comes news that you can be tracked by the germs you leave behind on surfaces. More on this here.
In a more dangerous to your health than you privacy story, some information on MRSA that both cleared up some myths but also put a real sense of the dangers of the virus into my awareness.
Outbreak Of Paralysis Points To Polio’s Return – Health News Blog : NPR
Well kids, we’re coming full circle back to our parent’s time. Polio is back, at least in the poorest and most overcrowded of nations.
My father has a mark on his neck from where my grandfather gave him an emergency tracheotomy in the back seat of the family car using a pocket knife on their way to the hospital because my dad couldn’t breathe. And that’s what a mild-ish form of polio can do to you, cause you to suffocate. I don’t know if I’ve got it in me to cut into my child. I suppose I could if I have to but I really don’t want to find out.
No word from the Jenny McCarthyites on whether they look forward to polio outbreaks within our borders due to their stupidity.
Revolutionizing American Beer: Jim Koch, Chairman of Boston Beer Co. and Sam Adams – WSJ.com
Now, I’m not a huge Sam Adams fan, but there’s no doubt that Jim Koch has changed the way beer is made in this country and for that I salute him.
For the rest of you idjuts sucking down lite beers, you don’t know what you’re missing.
Beer with Dinner: The Basics of Pairing Beer and Food Beer Sessions | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn
Here ya go. Now you can eat AND drink instead of just surviving on beer alone.
Making Sriracha Chile Sauce from Scratch | Serious Eats
Now here’s something we can all use: homemade Sriracha sauce
Measles Resurgence Tied To Parents’ Vaccine Fears : NPR
Here we go.
Well-meaning, but misinformed parents are helping to create a measles outbreak in western Canada because they won’t vaccinate their kids.
I envision a future much like the one in “12 Monkeys” where Jenny McCarthy is Shiva, the Destroyer of Worlds.
Cooking with Peeps!
A couple unique takes on Peeps! this Easter Sunday.
First off, Peeps Sushi, which just looks like fun to make.
Next up is – what admittedly looks nasty but sounds amazing – Peeps brulee.
World’s Hottest Pepper: The Perfect Weapon? : NPR
India is planning to weaponize the ghost chili. That’s right, the hottest chili known to man is going to be made into a smoke grenade.
This was covered earlier by both NPR as well as by HuffPo.
Check out this Man vs. Food episode regarding a ghost chili burger. Adam is hurting and it shows.
Las Vegas Weekly : – The Drunk Cookbook
This list makes me want to go on a bender just to justify eating any of this wonderful food.