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We’re all well-versed in how healthy eating and exercise help to avoid packing on the pounds, but one little-known catalyst for weight gain may happening overnight, while you sleep — or don’t, as it turns out.
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From ice bars to underwater restaurants to Japanese sake houses where monkeys are waiters, we’ve seen a lot of gimmicky places to get a drink. However none so far have given us a headache just by reading about them until now. The Ritz-Carlton hotel in Berlin opened a perfume-inspired cocktail bar on June 12, and it’s causing us to pause.
The bar, aptly named Fragrances, encourages patrons to select their cocktails based on matching scents. Fragrances currently offers a selection 15 cocktails, each corresponding to a different perfume. Designer perfumes from the likes of Giorgio Armani and Yves Saint Laurent sit beside respective liquors so that patrons may smell before they taste. “At Fragrances, we want our guests not only to enjoy their drinks, but to experience them,” bar manager Arnd Heissen told The Drinks Business.
Cocktails are as elaborate as the setup. The Earl Grey and Cucumber, for example, consists of Earl Grey infused Don Julio Reposado, pink lady apple juice, jasmine tea and vanilla, honey and cucumber syrup. It was inspired by the Jo Malone fragrance. Heissen told Yahoo Food that there have been no sponsorhip deals between the perfume companies and the Ritz Berlin, and that the hotel does not sell any of the perfumes.
Non-alcoholic beverages, like the Messe de Minuit and Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom, are also available, as are fragrance-inspired bar snacks — whatever those might be.
We’re curious to see how Fragrances fares, since we’ve always followed the rule prohibiting scented candles on the dinner table. Perhaps we’ve been mistaken this whole time, though. For now, we’re going to sit back and watch from a distance, because we’re feeling all this perfume and cocktail talk right between the eyes, in a throbbing sort of way.
Typically we get headaches after we leave a bar — like, the next morning when we wake up and need a Bloody Mary injection and an egg sandwich to the face. But before we even enter? We’re not so sure we’re ready for that. Would you go to a perfume-inspired cocktail bar? What perfume…er… cocktail would you choose?
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There are a lot of reasons to peel potatoes — cheese fries, tater tots and potato salad, to name a few — but that doesn’t make the work of peeling them any less of a chore. It’s not that this kitchen task is hard, being that it doesn’t require even t…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Faced with potentially hungry — and grumpy — passengers, a Frontier Airlines pilot treated them to pizza when storms diverted a Denver-bound flight to Cheyenne, where the plane was stuck for a couple of hours.
Cheyenne Domino’s Pizza manager Andrew Ritchie told The Associated Press that he got a call about 10 p.m. Monday just as he was about to send employees home. Ritchie said the pilot told him he needed to feed 160 people — fast.
“I put my hand over the phone and I said: ‘Guys, you’re coming back,'” Ritchie said, recalling what he told his employees.
In all, Ritchie said his crew made about 35 pizzas and delivered them to the airport, where the driver handed the food off to flight attendants. One of the passengers sent KUSA-TV a picture of flight attendants handing pizza boxes.
That number of pizzas is usually what his store handles in an entire hour, Ritchie said. This time, they needed to make them and deliver them in about 30 minutes, he said.
But that didn’t deter his co-workers, Ritchie said.
“Actually, they were super excited. They had a blast. It was a challenge,” he said. “It was definitely one of those ‘challenge accepted’ moments in time.”
Frontier Airlines did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press, but KUSA-TV reported that the company confirmed the episode.
The television station reports that the flight to Denver International Airport, which originated in Washington, D.C., left Cheyenne about 10:30 p.m., shortly after the pizzas arrived.
The flight was one of dozens that were delayed Monday evening because of heavy rain across Colorado.
Chew on this: A woman in Richland, Washington, is on a 30-day mission to eat nothing but pet food.
Dorothy Hunter embarked on the bizarre diet June 19 while stocking shelves at her business, Paws Natural Pet Emporium.
“I didn’t have time to go get a snack, so I grabbed a bag of treats off the counter, and I was like, wow, you know, these read better than normal people treats,” she told KNDO TV. “So I started eating the treats and I was like, you know, I could do this for 30 days.”
So far, she doesn’t have a bone to pick with the foods she’s eating — to a point.
“I’ve also been doing our oven baked blueberry treats, as well as freeze dried green beans, carrots,” she told the station. “I’m even doing some canned cat food, one is a succulent chicken, and it actually tastes really good. So I’m really happy with that one. I don’t do raw bones or meat products like that, or the frozen because I’m just not into raw.”
Hunter has lost at least two pounds eating pet food, and gained a dining partner in employee Amanda Kempf, who has been feeding the pet food to her kids as well.
“My kids love the dog treats as well, and I don’t mind them eating those because they are nutritious,” Kempf told the Tri-City Herald. “They even told their teachers, who then asked me if it was true. Everything is labeled here so you know what you’re buying, and you’re buying nutrition.”
Like human food, pet food is required to be compliant with food additive regulations and be free of pathogens. Still, consuming kibble comes at a risk, according to nutrition expert Madelyn Fernstrom.
“Choosing to experiment with pet food as a long term option is a nutritional negative and might make you sick,” she told Today.com.
Hunter’s 30-day pet food gorge mission just happens to coincide with the expansion of her store, but Mike Rylander of WTFark.com hopes it coincides with something that makes more sense.
“Please tell me this has something to do with the legalization of weed in Washington and not that she was just hungry and lazy,” he said.
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