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| Chicken Soup for the Soul’ series to launch food line Posted: 25 Aug 2012 08:51 PM PDT  Chicken Soup for the Soul food line. — Afp pic Set to launch in 2013, the food range will debut with a line of seven soups, led by chicken soup with egg noodles and vegetables. Other soups to follow will include creamy tomato, mushroom barley, squash, sweet corn, chipotle and black bean, all packaged in homey mason jars. The segway into the food industry is pitched on the premise of the feel-good series that features a collection of short stories, anecdotes and motivational essays meant to serve as a tonic for the downtrodden and broken-hearted. By 2014, the entire food range will include more than 100 comfort foods like pot pies, casseroles and stews, in addition to gravies and broths to help shorten meal times. With more than 100 million copies in print in 54 languages and 100 countries, the book series is also widely recognised outside the US where it originated in 1993. It's not the first time books and food have intersected. In advance of director Peter Jackson's movie The Hobbit, for example, writers have been jotting down hobbit recipes into cookbooks. JRR Tolkien scholar Astrid Tuttle Winegar, for instance, is said to be releasing a book called A Hobbits's Cookbook: Eleventy-one Sweets, Snacks, And Savories Inspired by Middle-Earth, while California-based cookbook writer Georgeanne Brennan is also set to release The Unofficial Hobbit Cookbook in future. Meanwhile, if you need a little pick-me-up, consider popping a few berries, chocolate or sipping on tea, which were recently found to have the same properties as anti-depressants. — Afp-Relaxnews |
| Britain’s top 10 restaurants revealed Posted: 25 Aug 2012 02:39 AM PDT  Good Food Guide 2013. — AFP-Relaxnews pic In advance of The Good Food Guide's publication September 3, editors released the top 10 restaurants across the UK for 2013, giving Blumenthal's famous eatery in Bray, Berkshire and L'Enclume in Cumbria a rare score of 10. L'Enclume's "hallowed" rating – the only other restaurant to nab the highest score this year – makes it a formidable rival for The Fat Duck, noted the guide's editor-in-chief Elizabeth Carter in a statement. "L'Enclume is mind-blowing," she said. "It's a world-class destination in harmony with its local community, serving food that is hard-wired to the Cumbrian soil. [Chef Simon] Rogan creates miracles from nature; he cooks what the land can provide – nothing more, nothing less. Eating at L'Enclume is a unique, almost one-to-one experience." While a 9 denotes "cooking that has reached a pinnacle of achievement, making it a hugely memorable experience for the diner," a 10 is "extremely rare" and denotes consistent perfection, according to the guide. Usual suspects The results come just as the London Olympic Games wind down, and the city prepares for a second wave of tourists for the Paralymic Games August 29. The list is full of some of the usual suspects including Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham, which scored the third spot, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay at the No. 4 position, and other popular dining destinations like Pollen Street Social, Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons and Hibiscus. The Ledbury also broke into the top 10 list for the first time. Meanwhile, on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, The Fat Duck ranks 13, while Blumenthal's second restaurant Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London ranks 9th in the world. Inspectors for The Good Food Guide include ex-restaurateurs, chefs, writers and food critics. For the full list, visit http://www.thegoodfoodguide.co.uk. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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LOS ANGELES, Aug 25 — With a launch date set for December 28, Gus Van Sant's Promised Land is in the race for the 2013 Academy Awards.