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[snip] Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as salty junk food like potato chips. That surprising finding comes in a government report released Tuesday that includes a list of the top 10 sources of sodium. Salty snacks actually came in at the bottom of the list compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Potato chips, pretzels, and popcorn - which we think of as the saltiest foods in our diet - are only No. 10," said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden. Breads...

In an effort to ease the mind of the 14 million unemployed Obama and his staff came up with various ways to distract the American public, these were the top 5 that were rejected: 1) Order the NFL to continually pan the cheerleaders between plays (like they did back in the 70' and 80's) 2) Order the creation of "LOST 2" (Jack realizes he must go back to the island as John Locke never really died, it was all a ploy to get them to leave the island). 3) Order "Cash for Clunkers 2" (Americans with wives over 50 get...

(CBS/AP) - Today in "God, could they be more French?" French baker Jean-Louis Hecht has rolled out a 24-hour automated baguette dispenser, promising warm bread for hungry night owls, shift workers or anyone else who doesn't have time to pick one up during their bakery's opening hours.

A surprise meteor shower spotted in February was likely caused by cosmic "bread crumbs" dropped by an undiscovered comet that could potentially pose a threat to Earth, astronomers announced today (July 27). The tiny meteoroids that streaked through Earth's atmosphere for a few hours on Feb. 4 represent a previously unknown meteor shower, researchers said. The "shooting stars" arrived from the direction of the star Eta Draconis, so the shower is called the February Eta Draconids, or FEDs for short. The bits of debris appear to have been shed by a long-period comet. Long-period comets whiz by the sun very...

The price of flour has jumped 50-fold and the price of bread has increased four-fold, according to the Iranian regime’s news sources. Six months after the Iranian regime implemented a plan to lift subsidies, the regime’s media outlets have made revelations about a bread crisis in Tehran. According to these sources, despite a rise in bread prices the quality remains the same. The regime has not made good on its promises to compensate for rising fuel and electricity prices, leading to more pressures on bread makers. The leader of Tehran’s Bread Makers Union has resigned in this regard.

Here is a link to a bread recipe I just successfully tried: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/Artisan-Bread-In-Five-Minutes-A-Day.aspx The recipe is just mix and let sit for 2-3 hours, then rerigerate until needed. The dough makes multiple loaves and lasts 2-3 weeks in the fridge. It also freezes well. Here is a link to homemade, slow cooker yogurt I have been successfully using for a while: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-can-make-yogurt-in-your-crockpot.html It is so easy and so yummy!

Every Sunday or Monday I bake bread for the week, do any of you do the same? I have been kind of curious about this since the outrage about food prices on FR a couple of years ago.

Bread was a rock band formed in Los Angeles, CA. They enjoyed 13 hit songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart between 1970 and 1977, in the process pioneering a new genre later to become known as 'soft rock'. Bread consisted of David Gates , Jimmy Griffin, Robb Royer, Mike Botts, then Larry Knechtel (replacing Royer in 1971). Before forming Bread, Gates had worked with Royer's previous band, The Pleasure Fair, producing and arranging the band's 1967 album, The Pleasure Fair. Royer then introduced Gates to his songwriting partner, Griffin, and the trio joined together in 1968 and signed with...

(An expert explains when bigger really is better — and when it isn't.) Buying a membership to a wholesale shopping club certainly can pay off — but it doesn’t always. Toss giant boxes of this or jumbo-size canisters of that in your cart without giving a second thought to price tags, and you probably won’t save enough to cover the cost of your membership. If you want to save a bundle when you buy in bulk, you need to shop smart — and we have the experts who can tell you how. Read on to learn where the real savings...

(NaturalNews) Within a decade, a loaf of wheat bread may cost $23 in a grocery store in the United States, and a 32-oz package of sugar might run $62. A 64-oz container of Minute Maid Orange Juice, meanwhile, could set you back $45.71. This is all according to a new report released Friday by the National Inflation Association which warns consumers about the coming wave of food price inflation that's about to strike the western world. "For every economic problem the U.S. government tries to solve, it always creates two or three much larger catastrophes in the process," said Adams....

A mother feeding the ducks with her two children was stunned when she was told off by a council warden - for giving the birds 'unhealthy' white bread. Lisa Taplin, 34, was told by the park ranger to bring granary or wholemeal bread next time as it was better for the ducks.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Starch grains found on 30,000-year-old grinding stones suggest that prehistoric man may have dined on an early form of flat bread, contrary to his popular image as primarily a meat-eater. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal on Monday, indicate that Palaeolithic Europeans ground down plant roots similar to potatoes to make flour, which was later whisked into dough. "It's like a flat bread, like a pancake with just water and flour," said Laura Longo, a researcher on the team from the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Early History.

MAY 3, 2010 Was That Blob in Your Kitchen Born in the Gold Rush? Bakers Obsess Over Pedigree of Yeasty 'Starters'; Some End Badly By KATY MCLAUGHLIN Marni Witkin normally feeds Happy twice a day. Once, she forgot to feed him for three straight days, and he looked distressed. "I'm not necessarily a good pet owner," says Ms. Witkin, a Los Angeles Web site editor. After a few extra feedings, Happy was back to his bubbly old self. Vintage sourdough starter -- a bubbly mix of flour, yeast and bacteria used to make crusty loaves of bread -- is all...

It's been a busy time for the face of Christ recently, appearing on an iron, in a bruise, on a car window - and now on a naan bread in a curry house in Surrey. We know that most Brits find curries heavenly, but this is surely taking the passanda. This latest sighting follows a spate of the Messiah's holy visage popping up in unexpected places. A few days back a woman from the US claimed she could see the face of Jesus in a bruise on her arm, while an American woman's iron also played host to the Lord...

Bread trailer stolen from a church By Christina Hernandez, WINK News Story Updated: Jun 26, 2009 at 7:47 PM EDT LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - Stealing from charity - it's hard to believe anyone would do that, but it happened at a church in Lehigh Acres. The Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church helps out struggling residents every week, but Friday morning, it was a lot harder to do that. The church does something called 'free bread day' for those in need every Friday morning. Thursday night, the trailer the donated bread is loaded into went missing. Chuck Emery volunteers at the church...

FORT PIERCE — A 40-year-old man who is suspected of trying to sell bread as crack cocaine to pay bills is facing charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday. A deputy about 12:50 a.m. Sunday saw a man identified as Timothy Allen Riggin, of the 600 block of Avenue E, peeking around the rear building of the Nowalk Motel. Riggin ran from the deputy, but was apprehended near U.S. 1. Investigators turned up several pieces of faux crack cocaine in his pocket, according to the affidavit. “When I located the counterfeit crack, the male immediately said it was bread,”...

Recession-hit restaurants are helping themselves to your wallet by serving you an extra side of super sneaky charges. The Post last week found city eateries subtly billing customers for things usually free -- including bread and butter. Although managers claim the prices are clearly marked on menus, the outrageous charges can backfire on restaurants, experts said. Unexpected costs found by The Post include: * A $1-per-person charge for water at West Village restaurant Bobo -- noted on the menu but not mentioned by waiters. The drink is filtered tap water. Staff said the money funds the filtration. "If anyone doesn't...

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it's the site of the...

STUDY SHOWS ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP® IS POISED TO CONTRIBUTE MILLIONS TO NEW YORK STATE ECONOMY />UFC® Event in New York City Would Result in $11.5 Million in ‘Net New’ Economic Spending; Buffalo Event Would Generate $5.2 Million in Total Economic Activity With Record-Breaking Event Attendance, Mixed Martial Arts Will Contribute Needed Tax Dollars and Tourist Revenue to Cash-Strapped Communities Around New York State NEW YORK, NY – A study released today showed that Ultimate Fighting Championship® events in New York City and Buffalo would have a significant impact on state and local economies by generating tax revenues, creating jobs and...

Romans were upper crust on daily bread May 21 2008 by Tony Henderson, The Journal WHEN it came to their daily bread, troops at a Northumberland Roman fort took no chances. Excavations at Vindolanda are revealing two massive granaries whose quality even outshone the nearby commanding officer’s quarters. The dig is also uncovering a magnificent flagged roadway next to the granaries. “The masonry of these granaries is far superior to that of the nearby commanding officer’s residence, and although some of the walls have suffered from stone robbing, others are standing to a height of around 5ft,” said director of...

At the heart of Everest base camp, in one of the hundreds of tents that make up this seasonal settlement, is a bakery. It may be one of the world's highest. The man who had the idea for it, Dawa Steven Sherpa, isn't sure. But it does attract customers. Entering the tent, the weary trekker is wrapped in a welcome cloak of warmth and of mouth-watering bakery smells. The various goodies are stacked in plastic trays - chocolate cake, apple pie, croissants, cinnamon rolls, banana bread and doughnuts. Chocolate chip cookies are piled in plastic jars. Following their noses, hikers...

SANFORD, Fla. -- Eyewitness News discovered a popular Sanford fast food restaurant that's accused of storing food on the floor inside the men's restroom. The food that was left on the floor in the restroom was just one of several critical violations health inspectors found at a Checkers location in Sanford. Employees at the Checkers store on South French Avenue at West 15th Street apparently decided it was okay to store buns for their hamburgers inside a not-so-clean men's room. Tuesday, it appeared they had changed the policy, but not before racking up a dozen health code violations. "The bread...

Grain prices soar globally Rice shortages are appearing across Asia. In Egypt, the Army is now baking bread to curb food riots. By Daniel Ten Kate | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor from the March 27, 2008 edition Bangkok, Thailand - - Rice farmers here are staying awake in shifts at night to guard their fields from thieves. In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop. In Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso food riots have broken out in the past week. Around the world, governments and aid groups...

I love McDonald’s food but if you ask for your choice of bread on your order and that choice is wheat bread, no deal. Check out this short funny rap on, wheat bread. Revski

MELBOURNE, Australia - Two Australian robbers thought they were hauling away a big sack of cash from the Cuckoo Restaurant, but it turned out to be bread rolls —and one of them accidentally shot the other in the buttocks during the heist.

No Wonder... Published On 08-31-2007 , 2:27 PM Gov. Schwarzenegger’s drive to reduce carbon dioxide emissions got a major boost this week when the makers of Wonder Bread announced the total withdrawal of their bread products from Southern California. Interstate Bakeries, the makers of Wonder Bread, Roman Meal, Home Pride and Baker’s Inn breads announced the closure of four bakeries, 17 distribution centers and 19 outlet stores, leaving 1,300 Californians out of work. The iconic breads – that had been staples of Southern California grocery stores since the 1940s – will completely disappear from shelves starting October 20th. The parent...

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (AP) — Sara Lee Corp. is recalling 27 brands of whole wheat bread products because they could contain small metal pieces, the company said Friday. ... The products were sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. ... The recall involves EarthGrains, Publix, Sara Lee Delightful, Sara Lee Hearty & Delicious and several other brands that were stamped "best if purchased by" July 25, 2007, to Aug. 7, 2007, and included the code "222."

Recall -- Firm Press Release FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company. This listserv covers mainly Class I (life-threatening) recalls. A complete listing of recalls can be found in the FDA Enforcement Report at: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/Enforce.html Precautionary Recall Alert Issued for Selected Whole Wheat Fresh Bread Products Alert pertains only to products baked at Sara Lee’s Meridian, Miss. Bakery Contact: Mark Goldman 630-598-7317 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Downers Grove, IL --...

Mysterious kidney disease blamed on bad bread 22:00 09 July 2007 NewScientist.com news service Roxanne Khamsi Contamination of wheat by Aristolochia clematis, pictured here, could be the cause of deadly kidney failure among thousands of people in the Balkans. (Image: Kurt Stüber) Farmers in the Balkans are failing to weed out the cause of a kidney disease, according to a new study that appears to have resolved a decades-long mystery. The contamination of the region's wheat by the birthwort plant seems to be the source of an unusual form of kidney failure and urinary tract cancer that afflicts many people...

The baker who beat McDonald's From Richard Owen in Rome AFTER a five-year battle, the fast-food giant McDonald’s has retreated from a southern Italian town, defeated by the sheer wholesomeness of a local baker’s bread. The closure of McDonald’s in Altamura, Apulia, was hailed yesterday as a victory for European cuisine against globalised fast food. Luigi Digesù, the baker, said that he had not set out to force McDonald’s to close down in any “bellicose spirit”. He had merely offered the 65,000 residents tasty filled panini — bread rolls — which they overwhelmingly preferred to hamburgers and chicken nuggets. “It...

PARIS (Reuters) - Why have French baguettes become more expensive? Because of France's shorter work week, French Finance Minister Thierry Breton said on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT Breton, who has been a vocal critic of France's 35-hour work week, said the price of a baguette had risen by 23 percent over the past five years, while the price of German bread had fallen by 3 percent over the same period. "The cost of the 35-hour week is included in the rise of the price of a baguette since 2001, and this has been hidden too much from the French," Breton told L'Express...

The $100,000 note that won't buy a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe By Peta Thornycroft in Harare (Filed: 07/06/2006) The 100,000 Zimbabwean dollar note which went into circulation this week was officially worth just over 50p. Yesterday on Zimbabwe's burgeoning black markets it was valued at about 16p. In a country stricken by 1,000 per cent inflation, the world's worst, the new note will not even buy a loaf of bread. Just four months ago, a loaf of bread cost $45,000 Hours after the national mint started printing the notes, the price of bread shot up by more 40 per...

Religion of Peace Vs. 8-Year Old Boy The glory of shari’a: 8 Year Old Iranian Boy Caught Stealing Bread. (Warning: disturbing but not gory photos.)

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Oct. 18, 2005 – Albert Davis of Largo, Fla., may have retired from the U.S. Navy in 1973, but he's still serving his country and doing all that he can for the military. For the last 15 years, he and his wife Barbara have been diligently baking loaves of banana bread for American troops serving around the world. How many? Seven an hour, 94 per day, every day --- so many that on Oct. 14 the couple presented Army Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, with their 75,000th loaf during a ceremony here....

MEPs call for common EU circus policy 12.10.2005 - 17:38 CET | By Lucia Kubosova EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European parliament is set to vote on a report calling for standardised rules for circuses performing across the continent. MEPs suggest circuses should be referred to as part of Europe's cultural heritage, but they disagree on whether they should include presentation of animals or not. The report contemplating the "new challenges for the circus as part of European culture" is to be voted on Thursday (13 October). It covers three main areas: the education of children from travelling communities, health...

At Autumn Farm Mass in Malines, Belgium with Austrian music sponsored by Austrian Airlines followed by breakfast

We admit it, we're stuck on The L Word, Showtime's frothy drama about fantasy lesbians getting it on in swimming pools and showers all over Los Angeles. Granted, some of us have it worse than others. Some of us only go so far as to meet Sunday nights for viewing parties with friends. In the morning we rehash over e-mail and phone. But we leave it at that. There are others among us who go that infatuated extra mile, overwhelming dozens of websites with nitpicking analysis, swooning fantasies and cries for help. Starved to see images of themselves on TV,...

The Feast of Unleavened Bread: The Lesson of Leaving Sin Immediately after the Passover comes a festival that depicts the next step in the fulfillment of God's master plan. After God, through Christ's sacrifice, has forgiven us of our sins, how do we continue to avoid sin, since we must go on living in newness of life? How do we live as God's redeemed people? We find the answer in the remarkable symbolism of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. When God freed Israel from slavery in Egypt, He told His people that for "seven days you shall eat unleavened bread"...

IMPERIAL JAPANESE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Witness Account "C" Test How Long a Human Being Could Survive With Just Water and Biscuits Imperial Japanese Medical Orderly Ishibashi witnessed: (Translation) "I saw the malnutrition experiments. They were conducted by the project team under the technician Yoshimura. He was a civilian project team under the technician Yoshimura. He was a civilian member of Unit 731. The purpose of the experiments, I believe, was to find out how long a human being could survive just with water and biscuits. Two individuals were used for this experiment. They continuously circled a prescribed course within...

Da orange-and-yella striped bags stand aht on da bread shelves of local supermarkets, as they have fer decades. But dere's sumpin differnt abaht Braun's Tahn Talk dese days. Red, blue and yella balloons now appear on da same package. Ats fair notice that Picksburg's longtime favert white bread -- baked here fer a coon's age -- soon will take on da nationally known Wunner Bread name. "Tahn Talk was a part of childhood if yinz grew up in Picksburg," Marge Snyder, 58, of Shaieside, says Mundy as she walked past dozens of brands and flavors of breads at da new...

Oslo most expensiveNorway's capital has done it again, winning the dubious honor of being the most expensive city in the world, according to the latest report from Swiss bank UBS.The annual UBS Prices and Earnings survey ranks Oslo, Copenhagen and Tokyo as the three most expensive cities, but London would have pushed Oslo down to the number two spot if rents had been factored into the equation.Earnings are also top in the Scandinavian region to compensate for high costs, but with taxes and social security contributions also hefty in Scandinavia, Oslo and Copenhagen have moved down in the overall ranking...

Home Bread and Wine    FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERS I recently saw a story on the news about a little girl in New Jersey whose first Holy Communion was invalidated by the bishop. Apparently she is allergic to wheat, and a priest gave her Communion with a host made of rice. Why can’t she receive a rice host instead of a wheat host since she is allergic? What can be done? Remember the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s definition of a sacrament: A sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace. Our Lord instituted the sacraments, and...

First of all, thanks to the five people who have each pledged $100 a piece in addition to my $10,000 offering. Therefore, anyone who can reasonably recreate the CBS memos on equipment available in early 1972 will be receiving at least $10,500.

<p>May 16, 2004 -- Dr. Atkins' disciples are eating major food companies alive. The low-carb diet trend is turning the stomachs of the makers of traditional staples like bread and pasta, who are blaming their shrinking profits on shrinking waistlines.</p>

Preaching abundant living The Rev. Della Reese Lett teaches lessons of material success and personal empowerment in her own church. Della Reese, who played a down-to-earth heavenly being on "Touched by an Angel" isn't acting as she stands in front of a congregation on Sundays in West Hollywood. She's preaching — in her own church. And her message has no mention of sin, no mention of good and evil and no endorsement of sacrifice if it means doing without. She talks about abundant living, not in the hereafter but in the here and now.

  Breadmakers feel pain from Atkins diet By DAVID SHARPThe Associated Press11/8/2003, 1:18 p.m. ETPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Some bakers around the country are seeing a similar drop in business: With millions of people trying the diet created by the late low-carb guru Dr. Robert Atkins, overall bread sales are flat or down slightly, while bread-bashing seems to be at an all-time high. A sign in Stephen Lanzalotta's bakery reads, "Senza il pane tutto diventa orfano." In Italian, that means, "Without bread everyone's an orphan." But fewer customers are buying his European-style breads and pastries these days — thanks to...

KIEV -- Ukraine must deal carefully with rising bread prices or its government could face panic among the people and a spike in inflation that would throw its yearly forecasts off-course, analysts said Wednesday. They said the government had been forced to increase its inflation forecast for 2003 to 7.2 percent from a target of 6 percent because of rising food prices fuelled largely by the country's worst wheat harvest since independence. But even then, the new goal of 7.2 percent could be missed if the government failed to deal with future bread price increases smoothly and calm a population...

The Atkins diet has triumphed, the French diet guru Michel Montignac is in resurgence and ''low carbs'' has become the mantra (or is it war cry?) of the fit and fabulous. So in a clever bit of adaptation, bread, once the benign starter to every restaurant meal, has migrated to the other, more sinful side of the menu. It has become dessert. Bread pudding, of course, has long been a favorite of children of all ages. And the French have always paired bread with chocolate; pain au chocolat is now ubiquitous. But the grilled chocolate sandwich is both simpler and...

Local baker says rival stole his bread and butterEspionage, Philly-style: A N.C. man wanted the secret to a better hoagie, authorities say.By Michael Currie SchafferInquirer Staff Writer Industrial spies in Bavaria heist automotive designs. In the Silicon Valley, they take computer programs. And around here, apparently, hoagie-roll recipes.An underhanded search for a better bun, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor said yesterday, helps to explain why Mazen Fathi Said was being held on $2 million bail last night.Said, who operates a small bakery in Greensboro, N.C., has been arrested on charges of burglary, theft of trade secrets, and related...