September 30th, 2008
October 1st is World Vegetarian Day, the kick-off to World Vegetarian Month. The sponsors offer a list of suggestions on how to celebrate the day, including hosting a vegetarian dinner for your friends and family, suggesting that your local library or bookstore set up a display of vegetarian titles (and offering to help), and writing [...]
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September 30th, 2008
The b5media Lifestyles Channel is excited to announce our Second Annual Channel Wide Blogtoberfest!
Blogtoberfest will run an entire two weeks throughout our channel beginning Monday, October 6th and wrapping up Friday, October 17th.
Here’s how it will work:
Each day select blogs within the channel will post as usual, the only difference is, they’ll post [...]
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September 29th, 2008
If you’re looking for something slicky, yet not that revealing for your Halloween costume this year, consider this new Hollywood Devil gown from BuyCostumes.com. The outfit comes with a full-length red and black gown (with clear spaghetti straps so you don’t have to worry about the dress sliding down), black fingerless gloves, and a red [...]
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September 27th, 2008
Holiday Cooking for the Cure
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Started by First Lady Betty Ford, a breast cancer survivor herself, and her daughter Susan in 1985, NBCAM has made great strides both by increasing early detection of this disease and erasing the stigma that was once attached to it.
A number of pink products are promoted [...]
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September 26th, 2008
Four Easy Tips for a Better Bird, an excerpt from The Science of Good Food by David Joachim and Andrew Schloss, coming out in October of 2008:
The challenge of cooking turkey is keeping it moist and cooking it evenly. Turkey is lower in moisture than other birds, containing only about 58% water.
1. [...]
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September 26th, 2008
We have a travel theme this week with several of our recipe links, with some fall recipes thrown in. Happy cooking and reading…and planning for the fall and winter holidays.
Black and White Wedding CakesThese cakes put a beautiful spin on a classic wedding theme.
Busy Family MealsIt’s not too late to grill! Try an onion [...]
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