Monthly Archives: December 2006

Yummy Links

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Why not have a mid-week roundup of my latest favorite links?

Serious Eats calls themselves “the first website for serious eaters”- and although I don’t necessarily agree (I mean, what about Chowhound?), I’m fast becoming addicted to this site that features blogs, photos and videos on food.

Yahoo Food has quickly become a daily visit for me. I must say I’m loving a lot of what Yahoo’s been doing lately. On their Food section, I’m particularly enamoured by their list of “Recipes people want NOW”- which, right now, has salmon, eggnog, soup, brownies, and salsa as the top five.

Fancy Toast is a blog I’ve just discovered, and yay! The photos are gorgeous, the writing is entertaining, and- oh, it just makes me hungry. Always a good sign. Also, I can relate to the latest post praising husbands who bake… I’m another lucky, lucky girl.

Drinking a Coke

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Coca ColaI’ve never liked softdrinks (or soda, or pop)- something about fizzy drinks makes my throat hurt- but my husband, like a million others around the world, loves them.

Here’s a particularly interesting read about What Happens to your Body if you Drink a Coke Right Now:

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)…

Read more at Healthbolt.

Hello, December

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If you haven’t got an Advent Calendar, here’s an especially lovely one (found via a comment on megnut).

Anyway, it’s December! I started re-reading The Alchemist, an old book I used to love and had nearly forgotten about, yesterday, and it’s magical enough to be perfect December reading while not being as obvious as, say, A Christmas Carol (which I will nevertheless read this year, as I do every year!)