Mister Ian's Weblog

Category: Food

Food, food related things, restaurants etc. and eating

  • We are eating too much salt

    burger&fries

    Check here and try out the salt-o-meter on the Globe and Mail. Watch out for the french fries!

  • Overeating is about fat, sugar and salt

    Cream of Wheat
    Overeating, It’s not about willpower, it’s about our conditioned behavior. Which is played with by the food industry, fat, sugar and salt. We need to cool down the stimulus.

    So says David Kessler, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration

    Listen to this CBC podcast on The Current for May 26 where I first heard about it.

    Or this article on the Wall Street Jounal.

    Or this other article on the The Washington Post.

    His new book is

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    p>I’m starting the audio book version from Audible now.

  • Eat Red Meat and Die Young

    A recent major study says that

    Over a 10-year period, people who ate the most red meat every day (about 62.5 grams per 1,000 calories per day, equivalent to a quarter-pound burger or small steak per day) had about a 30 percent greater risk of dying compared with those who consumed the least amount of red meat.

    …

    The red meat in the study included all types of beef and pork, including bacon, cold cuts, ham, hamburgers, hot dogs, and steak, as well as meat in pizza, chili, lasagna, and stew.

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  • What do the Chinese eat for breakfast?

    I know they eat some strange stuff. When I was working with the Chinese on a project I tried almost everything but some things particularly the condiments were too weird.
    Ben’s Blog.

  • Sushi Tutorial

    Velly interesting…

    From Boing Boing

    And more at A Years Worth Of Japanese Food

    And here is a link to Gongfu Girl’s tea related videos on YouTube Here’s one on a simplified Japanese Tea Ceremony.

  • Sakura

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    We have not dined out much since returning to Kuwait from vacation. Generally it is too expensive and the quality is OK but not super. Prices keep going up and up of course.

    Here is tonight’s dinner for four at Sakura.

    1 Shitake Mushroom 2.950
    2 Sushi & Sashimi Platter 1/2 12.950
    1 Rainbow Roll 1/2 1.975
    1 Exotic Maki 1/2 3.225
    4 Miso Soup 1/2 5.000
    1 Steam Rick 1/2 0.750
    Sub total 26.850
    Cover Charge 15% 4.030
    TOTAL 30.880

    That’s 116 US dollars at today’s exchange rate. The 1/2s are because before 8:00 p.m. the Sushi and rolls are half price and fortunately they gave the rice and soup also at half price. If not half price it would have cost nearly 60 KD. That’s too much!

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    p>Also take note of the 15% cover charge which is common here. I don’t know if it goes to the staff or not, but then it makes a dilemma if you should tip or not. In believe tipping is not generally done and if so is not a percentage of the bill but rather a nominal amount of 250 or 500 fils (1000 fils equals 1 Kuwait Dinar). Of course I stand to be corrected on this.