3.07.2007

String Cheese, Medicinal Rice, Non-stop Pain, and Drugs

The Light, Nonfat Yogurt I am eating right now has a really weird, thick consistency.

AMSA National Convention
This Weekend. Hey-oooooh.

Does anyone want to be a Vulvologist when they grow up?

I am now eating String Cheese.

Another type of String Cheese, the String Cheese Incident.


Websites of Note
Foxy Vegetables
The Future of Food
National Geographic
Being There: September 11 Volunteers Working in Morgues


News I Want You To Know About
(click quotes)

1. Girl's Nonstop Sneezing Baffles Doctors
"
.... In what her doctors have dubbed a "medical mystery," Owens' sneezing spell has defied diagnosis time and time again. Doctors have ruled out allergies and neurological disorders."

2. Medical Mystery: No Fingerprints
"Imagine touching glass and not leaving a mark — virtually no trace of the complex lines and ridges that make up each individual fingerprint. Most of us take these identifying traits for granted. After all, everyone has fingerprints, right? Wrong."

3. Personal Problems Become Back Pain
"
The following is what modern medical science currently understands about the most common kind of low back pain, the backache that bedevils working-age adults who are otherwise totally well. This is a pain that does not involve the legs — unlike many back pains — and that comes on for no apparent reason."

4. Prescription Drug Abuse Exceeds Illicit Street Drug Use Worldwide
"Abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers, sedatives and other medicines potent enough to kill, a global watchdog warned Wednesday."

5. US mulls backing 'medicine rice'
"Authorities in the United States have given preliminary approval to a plan to grow rice genetically modified to produce human proteins."

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

i love string cheese!
maybe you can meet sanjay gupta or paul farmer this weekend :P

Anonymous said...

where did you go??

Anonymous said...

A good story

GK Chesterton: “The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

Voila: www.tastingtoeternity.com. This book is a poetic view of 30 of the best loved French cheeses with an additional two odes to cheese. Recipes, wine pairing, three short stories and an educational section complete the book.

From a hectic life in New York City to the peace and glories of the French countryside lead me to be the co-founder of www.fromages.com. Ten years later with the words of Pierre Androuet hammering on my brain:

“Cheese is the soul of the soil. It is the purest and most romantic link between humans and the earth.”

I took pen and paper; many reams later with the midnight oil burning Tasting to Eternity was born and self published.

I believe cheese and wine lovers should be told about this publication.

Enjoy.