| Restaurants Still Use Trans Fats For A Reason | | Posted Sunday, February 04, 2007 3:06:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Grocery stores and restaurants across the nation are starting to ban trans fats, a substance that experts say increases your risk of heart disease. Trans fats are formed by altering the molecular structure of natural fats. Experts say they not only have no nutritional benefits, but they also raise cholesterol levels and increase the risk of diabetes, liver disease, and more. But there's a reason many restaurants and bakeries still use them. Sybil Wander, a nutritionist, says, "Foods will last longer so they don't have to charge as much. Crackers and things like that will stay crisper. They can reuse the oil in french fries and things like that a lot more times than they did before." If you want to avoid trans fats, read your food labels.... | |
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| | | Premier serves favorites from three former restaurants | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:08:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | FITCHBURG - Among the area restaurants that vanished during the last year were Griglia Tuscany, the White Horse Inn and Fitch's Chophouse and Spirits. What they had in common was ownership by Premier Restaurant and Catering, which does catering for the Overture Center. And they didn't completely disappear, either. Some specialties of all three of the not-quite- dead restaurants appear on the menu at the restaurant that is now calling itself Premier Restaurant and Catering and is now operating out of what was the Fitch's building on Highway PD. The restaurant looks just like it did when going by the Fitch's handle, which is a sprawling multi-level space with atmospheric murals, a great bar and intimate seating for appetizers or watching TV. And then there are restrooms that always seem to draw oohs and aahs from first-time users.... | |
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| | | Ultimate Italian restaurant coming to Charlotte Harbor | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:47:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | But here's a poll that actually includes something worth knowing. The Zagat Survey of "America's Top Restaurants," released earlier this month, ranked Italian food as America's favorite cuisine. A full third of diners surveyed said that Italian was their first choice. Remarkably, that's about double the second-place cuisine, plain old American, which got 16 percent. So, chicken cacciatore trumps chicken pot pie. French cuisine came in third place, which is odd because French restaurants are usually pricey. A lot of folks go through their whole lives without getting a chance to sample even French peasant meals like cassoulet (a meat, poultry and bean casserole) much less the elaborate dishes of "classic French" cuisine. So, Italian is America's choice. No great surprise, but remember that the Italian we eat here isn't exactly the same as what you get in the old country.... | |
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| | | News from the French ski resort of La Tania | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:23:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | With the first frosts of Winter arriving, and the Ski Show just a blur, thought it was about time an update was due... La Tania at the Metro Ski Show First, on the snow: La TaniaThe La Tania green run from the top of the gondola has seen major earthworks on the difficult double bend/S bend to make it wider and less steep. Where the green Plan Fontaine meets the red Moretta Blanche a new section has been made that goes under the bubble and then back onto the red then into the woods above the chalets and onto Folyres. This should iron out the last of the steeper sections allowing beginners to ski back down to the resort utilising the green run and the easy blue Boulevard des Arolles track above from the link to Courchevel. New cables on the Lanches 4-man chair above La Tania plus hands free turnstiles being installed (so Mribel-only pass holders can't scam use of this lift like last year).... | |
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| | | Some of chain's restaurants to test trans-fat-free cooking oil | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:34:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | Burger King Holdings Inc. will test cooking oil without trans fats in some restaurants within 90 days as public pressure about banning the ingredient increases. Burger King has been working to find an alternative to trans fat for the past two years, North America President Chuck Fallon said in a memo sent to franchisees and company-owned sites Monday. Fallon didn't say what other oils the company might use. Burger King has about 7,500 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada. The push for healthier cooking oil comes as cities such as Chicago are considering banning trans fats because of claims the substance raises the risk of heart disease. KFC, a unit of Yum Brands Inc., said Monday it's planning to switch to a trans-fat-free soy oil in all 5,500 of its restaurants by April, joining Wendy's International Inc.... | |
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| | | French Art Dealers Seek to Galvanize Market at Fair (Update1) | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:07:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- French art dealers are seeking to revive the market with help from the FIAC contemporary fair, which admits VIPS such as Francois Pinault and Bernard Arnault to today's private views at the Grand Palais. They have a way to go. Yves Klein, on show at the Centre Georges Pompidou, is traded 9 percent in France and 80 percent at U.S. and U.K. auctions, said Artprice.com. Among contemporary artists, the U.S.'s Jeff Koons is the top auction seller; no French artist ranks higher than Robert Combas, in 70th place out of 100, said the data tracker. Contemporary fairs can create a new art season. London's Frieze Art Fair ended Oct. 15, after spawning museum and gallery shows as well as auctions that raised $157 million from visitors who filled the U.K.... | |
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| | | America's most expensive restaurants | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:08:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Americans are hungrier than ever to eat out. Last month, they spent $36.2 billion in restaurants. This year, they are on track to spend $511 billion, a record high. But the most impressive number? $446. According to the Zagat Survey, that's the price of dinner for one at Masa, the high-priced sushi restaurant in Manhattan's Time Warner Center. For the second year in a row, Masa tops our list of the Most Expensive Restaurants in the U.S. But proving there's room to grow even at the very top, Masa's prix-fixe menu went from $350 last year to $400 this fall. A representative explains that the price increase at the 26-seat restaurant was due to a revamped menu, which features rare and expensive delicacies like white truffles. Importing the fish directly from Japan for simple, impeccable dishes helps keep prices high, too.... | |
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| | | PIN-BALL TO RESCUE OF FRENCH BARS AFTER SMOKING BAN | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:08:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | PARIS, Oct 16, 2006 (AFP) - Pin-ball, table-football and billiards are to come to the rescue of French bars and cafes hit by an imminent smoking ban, under a tax reform announced Monday by the government. From next year a flat annual payment to the treasury of five euros (6.25 dollars) will replace a variable municipal levy that could be nearly 80 times that and which has led to the steady disappearance of traditional games from bars and cafes. "Bars are going to have to diversify their activities," said Budget Minister Jean-Francois Cope, explaining the measure on RMC radio. From January 2008 all French bars, cafes and restaurants will be non-smoking unless they can provide a hermetically-sealed "fumoir" -- or smoking area -- which unions say only about three percent can afford.... | |
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| | | Monet-related events on menu at Raleigh eateries | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 1:11:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | "Monet in Normandy" brings not only 50 of the Impressionist master's works to Raleigh, it also gives restaurants there a chance to create a "French experience" -- chefs' tasting menus, wine flights and classes, French cheese tastings, grand-hotel-style champagne brunches, cooking classes and more. This is the only East Coast stop for the exhibit, which opens Sunday at the N.C. Museum of Art and runs through Jan. 14, so the city's expecting visitors from all over. And with this lineup, you can really set up a full day -- or weekend. Among the offerings: • A Flavors of Normandy dinner at Bloomsbury Bistro. For $35, this three-course meal features produce and cheeses of Normandy. • Exploring the regions of France at Enoteca Vin.... | |
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| | | French cafes, restaurants to be hit by smoking ban | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:11:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | PARIS -- Smoking will be illegal in French cafes, bars and restaurants from January 2008 under a ban announced Sunday by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. Unveiling a general prohibition on smoking in public areas from next February, the prime minister told RTL radio that a reprieve of 11 months will be permitted to establishments that "traditionally welcome smokers." "It will be on January 1 2008 that in bars, restaurants and discotheques the measure will come into effect," he said. Smoking will only be permitted in establishments that build hermetically-sealed "fumoirs", or smoking-rooms, to which serving staff will not be permitted access, he said. The Union of Hospitality Trades (UMIH) has said that fewer than three percent of restaurants and bars can afford the investment.... | |
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