http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/food-bloggers/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 07:41:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3023257/posts Starting my Memorial weekend early with a super slow cooked smoked Pork butt with a terrific North Carolina vinegar based dipping sauce. It will take approx 16 hrs so that's why I'm up now at 2:30 in the morning CT. On Sat/Sun I'll smoke a whole bone in Pork loin that is so tender and juicy it'll bring tears to your eyes. What are your plans? Opinipundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3023257/posts#comment Fri, 24 May 2013 07:41:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3022855/posts This year is no different; the authorities have mobilized the entire population to work on farms, meaning that adults and children alike face days of hard agricultural labor. The hours for official markets are also shortened at these times, and in some cases they are not allowed to open at all. This double-whammy only adds to the difficulty. .... Since rice planting requires a great many hands, soldiers, university, senior middle and elementary school students are all mobilized. Because this important national project determines the entire year's agricultural output, when planting season comes the authorities will try everything to get... Daily NK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3022855/posts#comment Thu, 23 May 2013 05:39:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021246/posts Last year Burger King’s Summertime Menu included a Bacon Sundae but they seem intent on topping that this year with the introduction of the Burger King Rib Sandwich. An obvious copy of the popular McDonald’s McRib Sandwich, the Burger King version will be available starting May 21st through the end of the summer along with the return of a line of Memphis Pulled Pork Sandwiches and Sweet Potato Fries. The Burger King Rib Sandwich was tested in Shreveport, Louisiana and did very well there. Let’s not forget Burger King also had those Fire Grilled bone in Ribs a few years... Burger Beast Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3021246/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 09:59:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3013355/posts It was recently discovered that the Obama Administration has been working jointly with the Mexican government to inform that country’s illegal migrants to the United States of their “rights to government food assistance.” The product of this cooperative undertaking is a Spanish-language flyer supplied to the Mexican Embassy by the US Department of Agriculture. The flyer asserts that “even those who enter America illegally are still entitled to certain benefits” and explains how these “undocumented persons” may secure these benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala) called the revelation “evidence of a dangerously misguided policy.... Semi-News/Semi-Satire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3013355/posts#comment Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:15:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3012525/posts The Department of Agriculture, via the Mexican government, assures potentially ineligible immigrants that they can still apply for food stamps on behalf of their eligible children without giving information about their immigration status, according to documents released Thursday by Judicial Watch. A USDA Spanish language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy, according to Judicial Watch, reads that if potentially ineligible immigrants want to obtain benefits for their children they “need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.” The Daily Caller has reported extensively about the USDA/Mexico partnership that seeks to promote taxpayer-funded nutrition... The Daily Caller http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3012525/posts#comment Fri, 26 Apr 2013 03:06:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011578/posts The cookware giant has decided to temporarily stop selling pressure cookers at retail locations, including the Garden City store in Cranston. If you're in the market for a new pressure cooker to whip up some stew or pulled pork, don't head to the Cranston Williams-Sonoma for the time being. Williams-Sonoma, the specialty retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware with more than 250 stores in the United States, has pulled pressure cookers from their shelves following the Boston Marathon bombing. It was first reported that Williams-Sonoma pulled pressure cookers from shelves in stores in Massachusetts, but a call to the... Patch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011578/posts#comment Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:57:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011121/posts Well, this is awkward. A man was having a spat with his girlfriend at an Olive Garden in Charlotte, NC on Sunday night when he decided to resolve the matter in the utmost mature manner: defiantly building a fort of menus to shield his face from his girlfriend. Fellow diner Adam Howell caught the incident on his camera phone, tweeting it out to his 650 followers, and the photo soon went viral. "A grown ass man is mad at his girlfriend at Olive Garden & has made a menu fort," he wrote, later updating his Twitter audience that the waitress... Shine via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3011121/posts#comment Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3008264/posts THE Supreme Court has frequently handed down judgments that have shaken America to its core. Now, it has turned its attention to the raisin. A group of farmers has brought a complaint about the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, under which the government confiscates part of the annual national raisin crop. The Court is considering whether the arrangement is constitutional. But why is a country that generally celebrates red-blooded capitalism regulating the raisin trade in the first place?Since the 1940s a government agency called the Raisin Administrative Committee has confiscated a portion of the annual raisin crop: 47% in 2003 and... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3008264/posts#comment Tue, 16 Apr 2013 02:27:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3008029/posts Here's a little something to keep Michael Bloomberg awake at night. Has no one thought to background check this little girl? Since 1914 she has radically changed her appearance no less than six times (presumably, to elude capture by the authorities). No longer content to merely dump salt wherever she goes, this murderous miss is on the warpath, armed with scary looking technology. As the Democrats and Republicons in the Senate "debate" away our Second Amendment freedoms, let's hope they won't overlook the other menaces that threaten the left. Out of Order Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3008029/posts#comment Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:05:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007342/posts Diners at the Esquire Club in Madison, Wisconsin, may be packing heat, but owner John Kavanaugh has no intention of restricting handgun-toting customers from entering his 300-seat establishment. In 2011, Wisconsin became the latest state to adopt right to carry legislation. Carrying rights are now a reality in every state except Illinois, while only six states—Maine, Louisiana, North Dakota, Illinois, and both Carolinas—claim a complete ban on guns in restaurants. While each state’s legislation possesses its own language and nuance, from licensing requirements to open or concealed carry permits, many states grant restaurant operators the ability to “post” their establishment—that... FSR Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007342/posts#comment Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:03:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3006962/posts (VIDEO AT LINK) MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: Americans will always want some level of inequality because it's a representation of a meritocracy. People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contributions: we think that they should earn a little more. And they should have more resources. And that's fine. But we also however have to have a floor under which nobody falls.... Breitbart TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3006962/posts#comment Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:26:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3006558/posts Robotic automation has long been the domain of manufacturing, but of late, service robots have made an often entertaining and sometimes gimmicky leap to restaurants in China, Taiwan, Japan, and increasingly the US. Please accept the following video ode to Singularity Hub’s favorite restaurant robots of the past few years. Noodle bot: Knife-brandishing chopper of noodles, you terrify and inspire us in equal parts. You slice noodles with grim efficiency, and for that we are grateful. (VIDEO AT LINK) Sushi bot: Although the high art of sushi-making may best be suited for human hands, we hold your pace of 3,600... SingularityHUB http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3006558/posts#comment Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:59:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005275/posts As low-wage food service workers demand a doubling of their pay, an uncurious journalist never wonders how people who earn $7.25 per hour were able to organize a “nationwide” strike replete with crisply-printed protest signs. For that matter, the dullard scribe doesn’t indicate whether “nationwide” connotes thousands of people in hundreds of locations or a dozen folks on two street corners. Bad journalism is defined most often by what it lacks, rather than what it states. Incompetence, or conscious manipulation, are found in the question unasked, the fact unmentioned, the absence of context. The passive reader will never notice. Reporting... PJ Tatler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3005275/posts#comment Mon, 8 Apr 2013 08:52:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003888/posts 1. Canned fruits, vegetables, meats, and soups 2. Dried legumes (beans, lentils, peas) 3. Crackers 4. Nuts 5. Pasta sauce 6. Peanut butter 7. Pasta 8. Flour (white, whole wheat) 9. Seasonings (vanilla, salt, pepper, paprika, cinnamon, pepper, taco seasoning, etc.) 10. Sugar 11. Bouillon cubes or granules (chicken, vegetable, beef) 12. Kitchen staples (baking soda, baking powder, yeast, vinegar) 13. Honey 14. Unsweetened cocoa powder 15. Jell-O or pudding mixes 16. Whole grains (barley, bulgur, cornmeal, couscous, oats, quinoa, rice, wheat berries) 17. Nonfat dried milk 18. Plant-based oil (corn oil, vegetable oil, coconut oil, olive oil) 19. Cereals... http://readynutrition.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003888/posts#comment Wed, 3 Apr 2013 23:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3002281/posts The White House will host its annual Easter Egg Roll on Monday April 1 this year. More than 35,000 people will join the First Family on the South Lawn for “games, stories, and, of course, the traditional egg roll.” Also, because we apparently can’t just let kids have fun anymore, the day’s activities will include sports courts and cooking demonstrations in accordance with Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign. Nothing says “Happy Easter” like educating families on “smart ways to incorporate healthy eating and exercise choices into their daily routines.” I can just imagine the disappointment on some kid’s face when... The Stir http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3002281/posts#comment Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:57:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3001954/posts Our resident chef carlo3b (Carlo Morelli), is in urgent need of prayer. On Tuesday he underwent a complicated surgery and is in ICU on a ventilator. On Wednesday his kidneys were not functioning properly and he was taken back into surgery. His daughter reports that he is doing much better, but still in danger. He has many FRiends here at Free Republic and I'm sure he and his family would appreciate your prayers and any good thoughts you could send his way. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3001954/posts#comment Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:27:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2900375/posts It looks like Mrs. 2ndDivisionVet finally has a chance to transfer back to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. As most of you might know, the economy there is much stronger than almost any other place in the United States. We will be close to her family, have much better choices in healthcare and dental and the stores in her company perform better there. She is a store manager for a large chain of eyeglass/contacts (optical) outlets. Two different locations in that area have come open and we hope that she will be picked for one. Please pray for us that she... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2900375/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:44:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3000036/posts When the Obama EPA is not spying on cattle and pork ranches with drones, they’re illegally releasing information on livestock producers to far left extremist groups. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Pork Producers are furious after the Obama Environmental Protection Agency illegally gave information on livestock farmers to extremist animal rights groups. Farm Futures reported: NCBA and the National Pork Producers Council are both furious with EPA for handing extremist groups illegally gathered data on farmers who operate confined animal feeding operations. NCBA said early this week it was notified by the EPA that the agency had... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3000036/posts#comment Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:38:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999543/posts Today the NY Times has a case study on the cost of Obamacare to one small business. The business in question is Baked in the Sun, a California baker with 95 employees. Baked in the Sun does about $8 million in annual revenue, however margins for bakers are tight so their annual profit is only about $200,000. Because the business has over 50 employees, they will be required to offer health insurance to their employees or pay a fine for not doing so. The owners estimate that the cost of compliance would be $108,000 per year plus $10,000 in overhead... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999543/posts#comment Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:39:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999400/posts Rhode Island has the highest unemployment rate in the country, it’s crushed by unsustainable public sector salaries and pensions which are protected by union control of the legislature and politicians at every level, it is one of only two states losing population and may lose one of its two congressional seats in the 2020 census if trends continue. Yet Rhode Islanders continually vote Democratic, even reelecting to Congress the disgraced David Cicilline in 2012 when even the liberal Providence Journal turned on him. The Democrat-union grip on the state never has been tighter, and Rhode Island never has suffered more,... Legal Insurrection http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2999400/posts#comment Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:11:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2997569/posts If Sarah Palin understands anything, it's the theatrics of a speech, and she can get a crowd riled up better than pretty much anyone in the GOP. That's how it went this afternoon at CPAC, where she launched a fusillade of caustic zingers at President Obama, Washington, and the professional political consultant class. At no point, however, was the packed audience louder than when Palin stuck it to the man by whipping out a Big Gulp full of "pop" (soda) from behind the podium and posing for the cameras while taking a big, freedom-loving sip. (VIDEO AT LINK) Outside the... New York Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2997569/posts#comment Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:28:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2997365/posts Weekly Preppers'Thread to post progress, good buys, DIY projects, advice and ideas .. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2997365/posts#comment Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:08:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995263/posts As Wendy’s Co. continues its effort to modernize restaurants, up to 130 U.S. restaurants could be closed in the coming year because they are not making enough money to be worthy of being remodeled or rebuilt. The news came yesterday as the Dublin-based company announced earnings for the fourth quarter and full year. Wendy’s is beginning the third year of its Image Activation program to raze, rebuild or remodel nearly half of its 600 company-owned stores by the end of 2015. So far, the Dublin-based fast-food restaurant has rebuilt 58 company-owned stores since 2011, and it plans to rebuild or... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995263/posts#comment Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:01:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995218/posts I hate “eating x gives you y” stories. Nearly always, associations between particular foods and drinks and specific illnesses are weak, riddled with confounding variables and describe increases in marginal risks that shouldn’t really worry us. If eating pickled fish tongues, say, doubles your risk of developing cancer of the Lower Hobsonate Iltoid, that only sounds worrying until you realize that in the whole of human history there have only been three recorded cases of this ghastly (and wholly made-up) disease. So what do we make of the news that high consumption of processed meats such as bacon, sausages and... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2995218/posts#comment Sat, 9 Mar 2013 20:22:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2994564/posts Mobile, digital, radio, TV, billboards and mailings all have their perks, but restaurant marketing doesn't have to be expensive to be effective. Fox's Pizza franchisee Scott Anthony has been searching for the right balance for the past two decades. He offered some approaches that have worked for his business during a recent educational session titled "Marketing on a Shoestring Budget." Getting started, he says, means building a "USP." "A 'Universally Selling Position' is a statement that emphasizes your strengths to your community. You have to be more than a generality," Anthony said. For example, Domino's is known for delivery, while... Pizza Marketplace http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2994564/posts#comment Thu, 7 Mar 2013 21:13:05 GMT