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Celebrate Your Special Moments at Masala Maarke

When it comes to hosting memorable events, Masala Maarke stands out as the ultimate destination for celebrations in Sola and Science City. Whether it’s a fun-filled Birthday Party Science City, a romantic anniversary celebration, or an exciting event party, we make every occasion extraordinary!

Why Masala Maarke is Perfect for Your Celebrations

Prime Location: Situated in the heart of Science City and Sola, we’re easy to reach for you and your guests.

Exquisite Ambiance: Our stylish and welcoming interiors create the perfect backdrop for your celebrations.

Delectable Menu: From traditional favorites to modern fusion delights, our carefully curated menu caters to every palate.

Personalized Party Packages: Customize your event with packages that suit your guest list and preferences.

Professional Service: Our dedicated staff ensures your event is smooth, fun, and stress-free.

Our Party Highlights

🎉 Birthday Parties: Celebrate milestones with vibrant decor, mouthwatering food, and a fun atmosphere for all ages. 💖 Anniversary Parties: Cherish your love story with an intimate or grand celebration, complete with a romantic setting and fine dining. 🥳 Event Parties: From reunions and farewell parties to festive gatherings, our venue is designed to bring people together in style.

What You Can Expect

Customized decorations to match your theme

Special menu options for kids and adults

Ample parking and a convenient location for hassle-free access

A warm, vibrant vibe to make your guests feel at home

Reserve Your Spot Today!

📞 Call Us: +91 9054966119 to book your event 📍 Visit Us: www.masalamaarke.co.in, Science City & Sola 🕒 Opening Hours: 11:00 AM – 11:00 PM

At Masala Maarke, we don’t just host parties; we create unforgettable memories. Let us make your celebration truly special – because every occasion deserves a grand feast!

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How to Rent a Car with Driver for a Cultural Tour of Siliguri

While Siliguri offers easy access to some of India's top tourist attractions, Siliguri itself has many features to offer, from its tea gardens, river streams, city charm, distant Himalayan beauty, wildlife, and more. 

Beautifully located in the foothills of the Himalayas, Siliguri offers a variety of cultural activities in addition to serving as a gateway to India's northeastern treasures. It’s a perfect idea to be on a cultural tour in and around Siliguri. 

For a cultural tour of this charming city and its surroundings, a car rental in Siliguri City with a professional driver provides the best balance of comfort and local knowledge. This is a handy guide to help you have a smooth and rewarding cultural tour. 

This cultural treasure trove in North Bengal with a mix of different ethnicities, religions, and traditions makes the region more enriching. To truly experience its charm, hiring a private car with a local driver is a convenient and the best way to explore the city and its surroundings. 

Why Go for a Rental Car with a Driver?

Local Knowledge: A driver who knows Siliguri well may show you the finest routes and offer insider knowledge that will enrich your cultural tour in and around.

Stress-Free Travel: When you have a local driver, you can Just relax and enjoy the ride without worrying about navigating strange roads or traffic.

Access to Undiscovered Sites: An experienced local driver may lead you to less popular markets, local restaurants, and cultural landmarks that are not commonly visited by tourists.

Steps to Renting a Car with a Driver

Choose Your Itinerary

Make a base of the itinerary of the cultural sites you wish to see before renting your car in Siliguri. Some of the most popular sightseeing options to cover:

ISKCON Temple: This Hindu temple is a well-liked location for spiritual and religious visits and purposes. Simply, you can visit ISKCON in Siliguri to learn about Hindu culture and religious sites, with a good scope for savoring Prasadam and veg food counters.

Salugara Monastery: A center of calm and Buddhist culture and spiritual charm. Explore the Indo-Tibetan style architecture and peaceful environment. There is a 100ft stupa, established by the followers of Dalai Lama. 

The Sevoke Coronation Bridge: This is a British architectural wonder located in Sevoke Road Siliguri. Sevoke Coronation Bridge is an ideal location for photographs and exploring the scenic view of the bridge and river streams. About 20 km from Siliguri city, this location gives you a perfect view of the Teesta River.  

Bengal Safari: To see Siliguri’s incredible range of fauna, come to North Bengal Safari. It’s a wildlife sanctuary in Junglee Mohal, West Bengal, where you need to book a ticket for Rs. 250. From royal Bengal Tiger, deer, bear, and leopard to bird species, you can spot in Bengal Safari.

Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: Located near Siliguri, this wildlife hotspot is between the rivers of Teesta and Mahananda. This beautiful site comes under Darjeeling Wildlife Division some 30 minutes from Siliguri. 

Siliguri Science City: Also called North Bengal SceniceC enter, this popular attraction is located in Matigara, and remains open from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm. It has a planetarium, a giant T-Rex model, Nature Interpretation Center, with scientific fun objects.

Local Markets: In Siliguri, you will find various local markets known for street food and shopping including Bidhan Market and Hong Kong Market (the most popular ones).

Renting a Car with a Driver – How to Hire?

Decide on Your Itinerary

Before you book your rental car in Siliguri, sketch out a rough plan such as the cultural spots you want to visit. Here are some of the most popular places include:

ISKCON Temple

Salugara Monastery

Sevoke Coronation Bridge

Bengal Safari

Local Markets

Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary

Research Reliable Rental Services in Siliguri 

Seek out car rental companies in Siliguri City that provide chauffeured cars. Always search for travel companies that have a physical office in Siliguri and provide reliable and professional services. Make sure you examine reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor or Google to determine the level of service.

Compare Packages

Professional taxi rental services in Siliguri usually offer:

Hourly car rentals are ideal for a short trip.

Day packages are the best for a full-day cultural tour.

Custom packages tailored for multi-day holidays in and around Siliguri or specific itineraries.

Thus, before making a reservation, check rates, cancellation policies, refund policies, inclusions, and exclusions (fuel, tolls, and parking).

Verify Driver Credentials

You need a reliable car rental agency that provides local and highly professional drivers in Siliguri. Make sure the driver has good reviews, is well-experienced, and has a valid license. A professional, informed driver may have local expertise and cultural experience in the region.

Book in Advance

Last-minute reservations may be challenging during Siliguri's busiest travel seasons. Peak tourist season in Siliguri runs from October to April. To guarantee the best deals/ offers and availability, hire your rental car with a driver at least two weeks in advance (if possible).

What a Reliable Car Rental Service Should Have

Fleet Options: Select a car based on the size of your group, duration of the trip, location, and your comfort level.

Clear Pricing: Verify that there aren't additional or hidden fees. 

Safety precautions: The car should have all the necessary safety features and be kept up to date (well-maintained).

Approach to Customer Support: In the event of an emergency, reputable rental companies in Siliguri offer round-the-clock support (24*7). A reputable car rental agency in Siliguri communicates with professionalism and tries its best to solve your queries.

Hence, one of the best ways to fully explore Siliguri's rich culture is to rent a private car with a driver. Prepare for an amazing cultural trip to Siliguri with reputable car rentals in Siliguri at Suvidhaa Aapki. 

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Veg Restaurants in Patna | Shantilals Sweet Venture

Shantilals Sweet Venture, Patna's premier destination for Vej Restaurant in Patna! from delicious sweets to savory delights. Our elegant ambiance and attentive service ensure a seamless experience, whether you're hosting an intimate gathering or a grand celebration. Located in the city of Patna Shantilals Sweet Venture promises an unforgettable vej food experience filled with delicious flavors and warm hospitality. Book your celebration with us today and create cherished memories with loved ones at the vej restaurant in Patna!

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16 July 2021

Food for thought

At last week's Data Bites, I noted how 'Wales' is a standard unit of area. This week, along comes a map which shows that all the built-up land in the UK is equivalent to one Wales:

The map is from the National Food Strategy, published yesterday (and the man has a point).

It has divided opinion, judging by the responses to this tweet. I understand where the sceptics are coming from - at first glance, it may be confusing, given Wales isn't actually entirely built up, Cornwall made of peat, or Shetland that close to the mainland (or home to all the UK's golf courses). And I'm often critical of people using maps just because the data is geographical in some way, when a different, non-map visualisation would be better.

But I actually think this one works. Using a familiar geography to represent areas given over to particular land use might help us grasp it more readily (urban areas = size of Wales, beef and lamb pastures = more of the country than anything else). It's also clear that a huge amount of overseas land is needed to feed the UK, too.

The map has grabbed people's attention and got them talking, which is no bad thing. And it tells the main stories I suspect its creators wanted to. In other words, it's made those messages... land.

Trash talk

Happy Take Out The Trash Day!

Yesterday saw A LOT of things published by Cabinet Office - data on special advisers, correspondence with parliamentarians, public bodies and major projects to name but a few, and the small matter of the new plans outlining departmental priorities and how their performance will be measured.

It's great that government is publishing this stuff. It's less great that too much of it still involves data being published in PDFs not spreadsheets. And it's even less great that the ignoble tradition of Take Out The Trash Day continues, for all the reasons here (written yesterday) and here (written in 2017).

I know this isn't (necessarily) deliberate, and it's a lot of good people working very hard to get things finished before the summer (as my 2017 piece acknowledges). And it's good to see government being transparent.

But it's 2021, for crying out loud. The data collection should be easier. The use of this data in government should be more widespread to begin with.

We should expect better.

In other news:

I was really pleased to have helped the excellent team at Transparency International UK (by way of some comments on a draft) with their new report exploring access and influence in UK housing policy, House of Cards. Read it here.

One of our recent Data Bites speakers, Doug Gurr, is apparently in the running to run the NHS. More here.

Any excuse to plug my Audrey Tang interview.

The good folk at ODI Leeds/The Data City/the ODI have picked up and run with my (and others') attempt to map the UK government data ecosystem. Do help them out.

Five years ago this week...

Regarding last week's headline of Three Lines on a Chart: obviously I was going to.

Have a great weekend

Gavin

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Vax populi

Why vaccine-shy French are suddenly rushing to get jabbed* (The Economist)

Morning update on Macron demolishing French anti-vax feeling (or at least vax-hesitant) (Sophie Pedder via Nicolas Berrod)

How Emmanuel Macron’s “health passes” have led to a surge in vaccine bookings in France* (New Statesman)

How effective are coronavirus vaccines against the Delta variant?* (FT)

England faces the sternest test of its vaccination strategy* (The Economist)

Where Are The Newest COVID Hot Spots? Mostly Places With Low Vaccination Rates (NPR)

There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates (NPR)

All talk, no jabs: the reality of global vaccine diplomacy* (Telegraph)

Vaccination burnout? (Reuters)

Viral content

COVID-19: Will the data allow the government to lift restrictions on 19 July? (Sky News)

UK Covid-19 rates are the highest of any European country after Cyprus* (New Statesman)

COVID-19: Cautionary tale from the Netherlands' coronavirus unlocking - what lessons can the UK learn? (Sky News)

‘Inadequate���: Covid breaches on the rise in Australia’s hotel quarantine (The Guardian)

Side effects

COVID-19: Why is there a surge in winter viruses at the moment? (Sky News)

London Beats New York Back to Office, by a Latte* (Bloomberg)

Outdoor dining reopened restaurants for all — but added to barriers for disabled* (Washington Post)

NYC Needs the Commuting Crowds That Have Yet to Fully Return* (Bloomberg)

Politics and government

Who will succeed Angela Merkel?* (The Economist)

Special advisers in government (Tim for IfG)

How stingy are the UK’s benefits? (Jamie Thunder)

A decade of change for children's services funding (Pro Bono Economics)

National Food Strategy (independent review for UK Government)

National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says (BBC News)

Air, space

Can Wizz challenge Ryanair as king of Europe’s skies?* (FT)

Air passengers have become much more confrontational during the pandemic* (The Economist)

Branson and Bezos in space: how their rocket ships compare* (FT)

Sport

Euro 2020: England expects — the long road back to a Wembley final* (FT)

Most football fans – and most voters – support the England team taking the knee* (New Statesman)

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends* (The Economist)

The Most Valuable Soccer Player In America Is A Goalkeeper (FiveThirtyEight)

Sport is still rife with doping* (The Economist)

Wimbledon wild card success does not disguise financial challenge* (FT)

Can The U.S. Women’s Swim Team Make A Gold Medal Sweep? (FiveThirtyEight)

Everything else

Smoking: How large of a global problem is it? And how can we make progress against it? (Our World in Data)

Record June heat in North America and Europe linked to climate change* (FT)

Here’s a list of open, non-code tools that I use for #dataviz, #dataforgood, charity data, maps, infographics... (Lisa Hornung)

Meta data

Identity crisis

A single sign-on and digital identity solution for government (GDS)

UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan (Computer Weekly)

BCS calls for social media platforms to verify users to curb abuse (IT Pro)

ID verification for social media as a solution to online abuse is a terrible idea (diginomica)

Who is behind the online abuse of black England players and how can we stop it?* (New Statesman)

Euro 2020: Why abuse remains rife on social media (BBC News)

UK government

Online Media Literacy Strategy (DCMS)

Privacy enhancing technologies: Adoption guide (CDEI)

The Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset is now available in the ONS Secure Research Service (ADR UK)

Our Home Office 2024 DDaT Strategy is published (Home Office)

The UK’s Digital Regulation Plan makes few concrete commitments (Tech Monitor)

OSR statement on data transparency and the role of Heads of Profession for Statistics (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Good data from any source can help us report on the global goals to the UN (ONS)

The state of the UK’s statistical system 2020/21 (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Far from average: How COVID-19 has impacted the Average Weekly Earnings data (ONS)

Health

Shock treatment: can the pandemic turn the NHS digital? (E&T)

Can Vaccine Passports Actually Work? (Slate)

UK supercomputer Cambridge-1 to hunt for medical breakthroughs (The Guardian)

AI got 'rithm

An Applied Research Agenda for Data Governance for AI (GPAI)

Taoiseach and Minister Troy launch Government Roadmap for AI in Ireland (Irish Government)

Tech

“I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Go Back”: Return-to-Office Agita Is Sweeping Silicon Valley (Vanity Fair)

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom (BBC News)

The class of 2021: Welcome to POLITICO’s annual ranking of the 28 power players behind Europe’s tech revolution (Politico)

Inside Facebook’s Data Wars* (New York Times)

Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (Protocol)

Exclusive extract: how Facebook's engineers spied on women* (Telegraph)

Face off

Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet? (The Observer)

#Identity, #OnlineSafety & #AgeVerification – notes on “Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?” (Alec Muffett)

Europe makes the case to ban biometric surveillance* (Wired)

Open government

From open data to joined-up government: driving efficiency with BA Obras (Open Contracting Partnership)

AVAILABLE NOW! DEMOCRACY IN A PANDEMIC: PARTICIPATION IN RESPONSE TO CRISIS (Involve)

Designing digital services for equitable access (Brookings)

Data

Trusting the Data: How do we reach a public settlement on the future of tech? (Demos)

"Why do we use R rather than Excel?" (Terence Eden)

Everything else

The world’s biggest ransomware gang just disappeared from the internet (MIT Technology Review)

Our Statistical Excellence Awards Ceremony has just kicked off! (Royal Statistical Society)

Pin resets wipe all data from over 100 Treasury mobile phones (The Guardian)

Data officers raid two properties over Matt Hancock CCTV footage leak (The Guardian)

How did my phone number end up for sale on a US database? (BBC News)

Gendered disinformation: 6 reasons why liberal democracies need to respond to this threat (Demos, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung)

Opportunities

EVENT: Justice data in the digital age: Balancing risks and opportunities (The LEF)

JOBS: Senior Data Strategy - Data Innovation & Business Analysis Hub (MoJ)

JOB: Director of Evidence and Analytics (Natural England)

JOB: Policy and Research Associate (Open Ownership)

JOB: Research Officer in Data Science (LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science)

JOB: Chief operating officer (Democracy Club, via Jukesie)

And finally...

me: can’t believe we didn’t date sooner... (@MNateShyamalan)

Are you closer to Georgia, or to Georgia? (@incunabula)

A masterpiece in FOIA (Chris Cook)

How K-Pop conquered the universe* (Washington Post)

Does everything really cost more? Find out with our inflation quiz.* (Washington Post)

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Medellin // first leg

We arrived by a VERY long bus from Salento. The big bus took a diversion up the mountains on bumpy dirt tracks but we made it! Checking into our hostel, la Florentina, in the touristy and safe area of El Poblado, we got a good vibe. Even though our room was quite small, we liked the shared areas and the second hand clothes shop. Once checked in, we nipped out for a quick pizza before getting an early night, ready to explore the next day.

We were expecting a busy and similar city to Bogotá, however were pleasantly surprised see how much money has been pumped into the city in the last 20 years. The city was one of the most dangerous in the world however now, it’s absolutely amazing with the windy roads, pedestrianised streets, fairy lights and modern bars and restaurants. We ate some great food, Naan (an Indian) being our favourite Indian we’ve had yet, Archie’s ‘most delicious pizza’ he’s ever had at Cafe Zorba, of course a great menu del dia at Veg Station and on our final night some sushi and ramen.

As well as simply chilling with our new pals, Megan + Calum, having nice food and drinks. Courtney visited the Modern Art Museum which had some fab exhibitions in. We are hoping to visit a couple more museums when we return back to Medellin.

On our last day before we head to Guatape for a long weekend, we went on a Pablo Escobar tour. As we know it’s very much a taboo to discuss him as a tourist here, as many Colombians have juxtaposing opinions, it was fascinating to visit the museum and learn about how he became so rich, what he spent his money on and where he would frequent. On the your we visited one of his old stash houses which had many actual items from his life, a memorial for all those who suffered from the violence and his burial site.

We are planning on returning to Medellin after we have a long weekend in the lake town of Guatape, many people living in the city escape to this tranquil place so we’re excited to have a holiday on holiday…

Medellin // second leg

After a long weekend in the lakeside town of Guatapé, we return back to Medellin to tick some more things off the to do list. Checking into our hotel around the corner from the last, Polado Guest House, we were pleasantly surprised at the facilities and amazing mountain views from the shared kitchen. Arriving in the afternoon, we decided to have a dinner at Sushi Gama again before getting an early night.

First on the list was the Explora Park, Medellin’s Science Museum. We used the Metro system for the first time since travelling and loved how easy, cheap and safe it felt. Medellin’s metro system consists of overground trains, cable cars and trams. The science museum had plenty of interactive things to play around with, many dinosaurs and a really fun interactive room full of how films are made. Archie really wanted to head to the aquarium too which was onsite and apparently is the largest in Latin America.

Feria de las Flores (Medellin’s annual flower festival) started on the Saturday and we were hoping to get tickets to see some events, however unfortunately the opening days were mainly for industry and had sold out, this is when we decided to head to the coast a couple of days earlier than planned.

Having only one day to finish our Medellin trip before our 18(!) hour trip North, we decided to spend our final day at the Botanical Jardins, riding one of the famous cable cars across the city and finishing with our favourite pizza of all time at Cafe Zorba. The botanical gardens and pizza were MUCH more enjoyable than the cable cars! Proud we managed to not only go on one but get back the route we came, the cable cars were absolutely terrifying. Up so high above hills housing many communities, we could feel all the bumps and spins and Courtney almost fainted when the system came to an emergency stop due to traffic. BUT we made it!!

With just a few hours until our long, overnight bus to Santa Marta, we went back to our favourite pizza place for a chimichurri pizza for Arch and a half margarita, half spinach vegan for Courtney.

Wish us luck and sleep on this bus!

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96 ways to keep your heart healthy and strong

1. Substitute puréed prunes or applesauce for butter in cooking recipes.

2. Workout! Study shows top aerobic athletes often tend to live 5 years longer.

3. Decrease your salt intake by replacing canned veggies with frozen.

4. See the glass as half full. Positivity is related to a more powerful heart.

5. Pick potassium! This mineral helps cancel sodium levels (a major wrongdoer in destructive our hearts).

6. Take pleasure in a square of 70 percent dark delicious chocolate. It has potent antioxidant as well as anti-clotting properties.

7. Do you recognize the signs and symptoms of high blood pressure? Trick concern: There aren't any! Have a pharmacologist or doctor check yours this week.

8. Replace your workdesk chair with a medicine ball. It's a terrific means to shed additional calories and also raise core strength.

9. What inspires you to stay healthy and balanced? Compose the factors on sticky notes as well as publish them at the workplace as well as at residence to remind and influence you.

10. Learn how to say no. Claiming yes to every little thing can result in anxiety as well as poor health.

11. Experiment with whole grains: Attempt hulled barley, teff, millet, buckwheat, quinoa as well as wheat bulgur or berries.

12. Go nuts! Studies discover a handful five times per week assists lower heart problem risk.

13. Maintain your cool. When your temper increases, your high blood pressure could also increase.

14. Serve lentils, beans or tofu as the primary rather than meat. With a little seasoning they really shine!

15. Grab a pedometer. Try including 100 steps to your overall every week.

16. Avoid sugarcoated. Flavour your coffee or tea with cinnamon instead.

17. Devote to health and fitness: Stroll any distance that's 10 mins away or less.

18. Supply your fridge with low-fat or skim milk products.

19. Lease a romcom. Science web links watching funny flicks with advantageous blood flow throughout your body.

20. Do exactly what you enjoy. A solid heart is emotionally and also literally fit.

21. Inning accordance with leading heart docs, workout is like sleep: you can't save it up. Rise, obtain going!

22. Stretch it out! Versatile muscle mass imply adaptable arteries.

23. LOL ASAP: Giggling actually is the finest medicine. It relieves anxiety as well as improves your immune system.

24. Start a brand-new practice this Thanksgiving. Make time for a stroll with buddies and also household to take pleasure in the colours of fall.

25. Eat out! Search for vital words like baked, broiled, grilled, poached or steamed on the menu.

26. Lift weights: For every single extra pound of muscular tissue you develop, you'll melt an added 10 calories each day.

27. Brighten a cool morning. Make a low-cal London Fog with Earl Grey tea, vanilla essence as well as steamed low-fat milk.

28. Huge up on B vitamins-- they increase good cholesterol by 15 to 35 percent.

29. Do a stress inventory. Take 5 mins to see where you hold stress and anxiety: jaws, shoulders, neck. Now breathe, stretch, relax!

30. Schedule much more suppers in. Households that dine with each other make much healthier selections together.

31. Allow go of stress and also perfectionism. Loosen up, as well as care for yourself.

32. Ditch that soft drink. A pop a day can add up to 15 extra pounds in a year!

33. Offer a dish of low-sodium, broth-based soup.

34. Treat on raw vegetables rather than chips when you're craving a little crunch.

35. Usage smaller sized bowls and layers in the house. Portion control secures your heart.

36. Moms-to-be that do low-impact workout provide babies a head start on heart health.

37. Stressed? Get a pen. Discussing difficult events could help you release negative feelings and feel better.

38. Create a hassle-free bedroom. Lower the thermostat as well as try ear plugs as well as light-blocking curtains.

39. Test new heart-healthy oils, like soybean, safflower and sesame.

40. Attempt an anytime, anywhere fitness break. Stash stretchbands as well as skipping ropes in your purse.

41. Today, have a cozy movie night. Serve low-fat cocoa as well as air-popped snacks seasoned with Cajun spices.

42. Feeling emphasized? Talk it out with a buddy. It'll make you feel much better as well as maintain harmful stress and anxiety degrees down!

43. Neglect frying! Try steaming, broiling, or cooking your food for healthier dishes, as a first program. It loads you up without adding mega calories!

44. Throw some chia seeds on your salad for a hit of heart-healthy fiber as well as omega-3s.

45. Set up an once a week exercise date with a close friend. Studies reveal you'll lose more weight together!

46. Easy on the salt! Go for no even more than 2,300 mg a day (that's one teaspoon).

47. Inflate the volume! Hearing songs releases feel-good hormones.

48. Release anger: Hanging on to aggravation injures your heart. Repetitive rounds can thicken artery walls.

49. Smile! When you beam on the outdoors, you beam on the inside also. Research links joy with solid hearts.

50. Change screen time with face time. Limit TV to 2 hours a day.

51. Reach out to friends and family. Interacting socially is fantastic for your heart!

52. Schedule leisure right into your week. Try tai chi, yoga exercise, reflection or a quiet stroll in the park.

53. Appreciate Loss's bounty: Get some fennel, okra, beans, corn, shallots and also late summertime squash on your plate.

54. To earn waiting less stressful, maintain Sodoku problems, weaving or a book in your bag.

55. Suppress cravings with healthy and balanced snacks: Low-fat cheese as well as grapes or celery, or a handful of nuts and a pear.

56. Leave the cars and truck in the house! Try strolling, biking, or public transportation to obtain where you have to go.

57. Window-shopping is good for you! When it's unpleasant outside, hit the shopping centers for Thirty Minutes of quick walking.

58. Even if it's margarine, doesn't imply it's heart-healthy. Examine the label: It must be non-hydrogenated as well as trans fat free.

59. Relocate your feet with motivation: Authorize up for an enjoyable run or a charity stroll for a good cause.

60. Can not state no to a friend? Pledge your BFF you'll obtain energetic with her - you'll be more probable to go!

61. Discover your city with a led walking tour, or take a mid-day to check out a new neighbourhood on foot.

62. Obtain examined! Half of females have high cholesterol.

63. Stress less regarding the future. Excess stress and anxiety might emphasize your heart.

64. State many thanks! Revealing gratitude reduces stress, which could help take added stress off your heart.

65. Replacement lean turkey for ground beef. It has less saturated fat.

66. Include more colour to your plate. You can boost heart wellness immediately by upping your fruit and veg intake.

67. Envision a much healthier you. It's the primary step towards making long-term changes.

68. Measure your blood pressure at the drug store. Fifty percent of people who have high blood stress do not know it.

69. Purée additional vegetables into sauces as well as soups for a sneaky health boost!

70. Adhere to low GI foods. They may trigger fewer spikes in blood sugar, which indicates much less strain on your heart.

71. Eat whole fruits, rather of alcohol consumption fruit juices, to get insoluble fibre.

72. Make it a practice when dining in a restaurant: constantly take home a dog bag.

73. Put on your own initially. Stay smoke-free, consume right and workout, these are some way of living changes that could reduce the danger of heart problem as well as stroke by up to 80 percent.

74. Relax. It's good for your heart and also soul.

75. Explore a brand-new Indian dahl recipe. Legumes never ever tasted so good!

76. Healthy sex lives create healthy hearts. An attractive session could be as good for your heart as a vigorous walk.

77. Try tabbouleh! It's a great means to obtain in even more yummy whole grains.

78. Experience new spreads: Attempt peanut, hazelnut or almond butter on bread.

79. Join a community yard in your area. Gardening minimizes stress and anxiety and also can shed 400 calories each hour!

80. Stopped cigarette smoking-- no butts about it! Smokers are three times most likely to pass away of heart disease.

81. Absorb the sunlight! A great dose of vitamin D keeps heart cells healthy.

82. Put sleep initial (go for a minimum of 7 hrs). Pleasant dreams produce satisfied hearts.

83. Brush and also floss! They do even more than freshen your breath. Great oral health and wellness could minimize cardiac arrest risk.

84. Inspect nourishment labels: If sugar is the initial or 2nd component, simply say no! It's not a healthy choice.

85. Work in workout whenever you can. At the workplace, squat till you're almost remaining on your chair. Do 15 reps. Easy!

86. Reside in a heart-healthy 'hood. Supermarket and also parks within strolling range encourage casual exercise.

87. Fret less concerning the future. Excess anxiety could worry your heart.

88. Ordinary popcorn is a heart-healthy snack!

89. Bear in mind every bite. Reduce down and also indulge in the flavour.

90. Ditch deep-fried foods as well as business baked products. They seriously increase the danger for heart disease!

91. Excel to your heart currently. The seeds of disease are planted early. Stop them prior to they take root.

92. Usage healthy fats like cold-pressed, extra-virgin olive oil on your salad.

93. Start roughing it! Fibre-rich foods are one of the finest methods to assist prevent heart disease.

94. Construct a far better brekkie. Oatmeal is a heart-healthy start (reward factors for sprinkling flax seeds ahead).

95. Make time for hugs. A limited capture could help reduce your high blood pressure and lower stress.

96. Play a sport you like! A fit heart is a delighted heart.

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Best Cheese steaks and uncle Oogies pizza in Sea isle

Now a days Fast-food had become more lovable and convenient food as you can order it by one click by ordering it online. Fast food is a type of mass-producrd food designed for commercial resale and with a strong priority placed on “speed of service” versus other relevant factors involved in culinary science. Another high profile business has hit the market in Sea Isle city. Azzurra was established in 1988 and purchased by the Avanzato family in 1991. Salvatore and Josephine Avanzato had started   the family pizzeria in upstate New York before moving to best pizza ocean view nj.   Their son, Giacomo Avanzato, followd them as owner and operator of Azzurra, according to the Sea Isle City Chamber of Commerce and Revitalization. The sale listing calls Azzurra “a fantastic, extremely popular, and well established pizzeria restaurant” located in a high traffic commercial area of town. The thriving landmark business has over years of established customers and is turn-key and fully equipped with all furniture, fixtures good will and equipment included, “the listing says. Azzurra is our standard professional line of pizzas. The term pizza was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin Manuscript from the southern Italian town of Gaeta in Lazio, on the border with Campania.  

Cheesessteak is a ling bread roll or a sandwich made from thinly sliced sautéed beef, melted cheese and sautéed onions. A popular regional fast food, it has its roots in U.S. city of Philadelphia. Cheesesteak have become popular at restaurants and food carts throughout the city with many locations. Variations of cheesesteaks are now common in several fast food chains. Version of the sandwich can also be found at high-end restaurant. Azzurra cheesesteak is famous in Sea isle NJ which you can order online delivery is fast.

Uncle Oogies pizza Sea Isle pizza is more in demand all over the country, they have varieties of pizza and you will get all pizza on reasonable prize. Azzurra is quite simply, the most popular Italian restaurant in Sea Isle which provide with best topping of cheese and various veggies, meat and non veg.

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Here you can choose the size of the plot according to your needs and develop your dream home according to your requirements. Godrej Properties provides some amenities is this township such as gated community, 24×7 security guards, CCTV monitoring, retails, eat street, open gardens, curated parks, rainwater harvesting, walkway, jogging tracks, etc.

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What’s Been Up with the Vegaholic: Life Update!

Hey guys! I know it’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted a new blog post or recipe here, so I wanted to give you guys a life update about myself. I’m going to be answering questions like what I’ve been up to lately, why I haven’t been posting on the blog, and what’s going on with LOV (Life of a Vegaholic). 

I’ll start off with what I’ve been up to lately like as of this past school year:

I don’t know if I’ve ever said what my major is, but I’m a Communications major on the Public Relations track. Previously, my minor was Business Administration, but this past school year I actually changed it to Computer Science. Now, that has been.....an adjustment for me to say the least since Business and Computer Science use two totally different sides of my brain. Haha!

I’ve always had an interest in the technical side and specs world when it comes to computers from growing up around it. Computer Science took up a lot of my time last school year. I always had homework in those classes, whether it was programming exercises for homework, reading responses, labs (which are three hours long), etc. Plus, I would go to additional sessions that the professor held and go to tutoring if I had any questions. Sometimes I would have to remind myself what my actual major is and other people too. Haha!

I felt like I had more homework than I’ve ever had in college, plus I was dealing with a lot personally. One of my main priorities is my education and you guys know that, so my creative fire was not as lit as it normally is. 

I love being involved and being able to make a difference on and off campus, so I’ve been getting more involved in student organizations. I was the treasurer of an organization last year and now I’m the vice president of the same organization. I joined a national service fraternity and I want to join more organizations too. 

This past semester, I was very happy with my GPA. I had two classes that were really, really time consuming. I had group projects in both classes and then we had to present our final portfolio as a group for our class final. The finals for both classes were on the same day, back-to-back, so I wasn’t too thrilled about that. 

To be honest, I kind of prefer having a presentation as a final rather than having an exam, I don’t know. What do you guys prefer to have as a class final? A final presentation or a final exam? Tell me in the comments below!

I was really happy to know that I got As in both of those classes. YAY!

My summer plans: 

This summer, I did an internship in the financial services sector and I had to wake up SUPER early for it. I would wake up at like 5:30 am-6:00 am, and wouldn’t get home until 6:00-6:30 pm. I haven’t had to wake up that early since playing soccer. Haha!

Then, I would have to tend to my dog such as playing with her, taking her outside, feeding her, etc. It would feel like I would just blink and then it would be 9:00 pm and I’m like “where did the time go.” Since I was waking up so early, I would want to be in bed by like 10:00-10:30 pm at the absolute latest, but we know that didn’t always happen because stuff always comes up. 

All in all, I was able to learn a lot during the internship, met a lot of great people, and I am so grateful that I was able to do it.

Upcoming school year:

To be honest, I feel really great about this upcoming semester and just the upcoming school year too. Usually when I make my class schedule, I’m more fixated on the times of the classes fitting into my schedule and not the actual professors. Professors can really make or break your classes. With that being said, I made sure that my schedule was flexible enough to be able to get the professors I wanted while making sure the classes fit in with my regular schedule since I do work. 

Thankfully, I was able to get all the classes I wanted on the first try. I wasn’t put on any waitlists for my classes, which is awesome! I’m optimistic about this school year and as long as I have God on my side, I know I can accomplish everything that I want to do. 

Now that I’ve told you guys a little about what’s been going on with me personally, you guys are probably wondering about Life of a Vegaholic: 

Life of a Vegaholic isn’t going ANYWHERE. I created Life of a Vegaholic back in 2014 to bring together vegs and non-vegs alike that have one thing in common: a love for veggies. I also made Life of a Vegaholic for people who are vegs and are dealing with food allergies or have any sensitivities so that they would not feel like they are alone and to bring a sense of encouragement and guidance to people. 

I didn’t want people who have food allergies or sensitivities like me to feel like their food has to be boring because it doesn’t have to be boring. I’ve done a lot of thinking and there are so many more things I want to do with this blog. 

I want to get even more creative with my recipes. I want to create some more college-related content because it’s a big part of who I am currently. I want to create food guides/recommendation guides for restaurants and cities I’ve been to. I want to talk about issues that are important to me. I just want to do MORE with LOV. Thank you to everyone who has been here on this journey with me and has stayed. I appreciate and love my Vegaholics SO MUCH! I’m excited for Life of a Vegaholic and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for LOV. I’ll talk to you guys in my next post, which will be coming very soon! Bye :) 

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10 of the world’s best markets: readers’ travel tips | Travel

Winning tip: Fang night market, Thailand

Our stay in Fang, northern Thailand, coincided with the weekly Sunday night food market. From 5.30pm, tiny quails rotated on a grill while their eggs were fried in a doughnut maker, pots and woks bubbled with Thai curries, and stir fries and bamboo sticks full of sticky rice were griddled. Whole salted fish, coils of round sausages and meat skewers were all being barbecued over hot coals. Other foods were ready to go: silkworms, dried shrimps and goong ten, or dancing shrimp (raw translucent shrimps eaten alive with chilli), while green papaya salad was pounded in huge pestles … with as many chillies as you dared. Helen Jackson

Fez, Morocco

Photograph: Juergen Ritterbach/Alamy

Fez market has to be the best. It’s car-free and donkey-full. The sights, smells and sounds are a wake-up call to all your senses. Our guide Mohammed’s first words were, “Do not lose me as you will never find your way out.” The narrow streets are full of vendors and craftsmen of ceramics, leather, weaving, mending, and food, both to eat there or to cook at home. The donkeys are shod with rubber recycled from tyres to prevent slipping on the cobbles. Handcarts rule – with shouts of “balak, balak” to warn all to move aside as they make their way through the narrow passages. Thankfully we didn’t lose Mohammed and came out the other end. Kate Hendy

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Machane Yehuda market, Jerusalem

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When I lived in Jerusalem, I shopped at Machane Yehuda every day. There’s no place quite like it, a real melting pot – especially on a Friday. I had my guy for potatoes, my guy for herbs, two lovely Persian Jewish brothers I bought pots and pans from and Samir, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, who was my guy for veg. There’s something way more enjoyable about going to buy your dinner every night this way, and that something is the people you buy from. I don’t know why I like Samir so much: he’s just a really nice guy. Every time I go back to visit, I seek him out and go and say hello. Here’s to “The Shuk” keeping its fabulous food and wonderful people. • en.machne.co.il Katie Stobbs

Lau Pa Sat food market, Singapore

Photograph: Alamy

For a taste of the colonial among the gleaming skyscrapers of Singapore, head to Lau Pa Sat. The inside of this ornate building has latticed cast-iron pillars, reminiscent of an old Victorian bandstand. Outside, it is at its best at night: when the satay stalls open, the air soon fills with the enticing aroma of sizzling meat. Tables and stools are quickly occupied, and “beer aunties” roam between the crowds selling jugs of ice-cold Tiger. And, as the main market is open all night, it is a jet-lagged traveller’s dream, albeit a hot, smoky and sweaty one! Joanna Lawrence

College Street book market, Kolkata

Photograph: Alamy

This market sells a bewildering and extensive variety of secondhand books, whose origins can only be guessed at. The booksellers sit on raised wooden stalls peering over randomly stacked towers of secondhand books. I had many friendly conversations with white-bearded vendors about politics, science, religion and literature. I loved watching mothers dragging reluctant first-year university students around trying to find all the textbooks on their reading lists for bargain prices. The Indian Coffee House on Bankim Chatterjee Street, a famous meeting spot for Kolkata’s intelligentsia, provides a welcome retreat, brilliant eavesdropping opportunities and sugary coffee. Tess

Winter Night Market, Melbourne

Photograph: Nigel Killeen/Getty Images

From June each year, Melbourne’s Victoria Market runs a Winter Night Market that is at once a cheap culinary adventure around the world and an opportunity to have moments of random conviviality with locals and travellers while you queue for your halloumi fries/dumplings/kimchi/paella/froyo. It’s lively and cool but unpretentious; it’s free to get in; there’s often a band that you can listen to with your inventive margarita; and people seem to come determined to have a good time in a particular make-your-own-fun Melbourne way. It’s good for friends, solo adventurers and families of some ages (it’s hard to get around with a pram, and toddlers may need carrying). • thenightmarket.com.au Bridget

Pike Place Market, Seattle, US

Photograph: Danita Delimont/Getty

Pike Place is the source of the area’s fresh fruit, fish and flowers. All of this produce is put to good use as Pike’s is home to several independent coffee shops and restaurants that overlook the Pugent Sound. If there is a more perfect way to spend the evening than drinking a craft beer and watching the sunset over Bainbridge Island, I am yet to find it. If you are a fan of grunge music, Pike Place is massively important as it’s opposite the legendary Showbox venue and was also one of the locations in the cult film Singles. Ironically for such an independent venue, it is also the birthplace of one of the world’s biggest brands – Starbucks first ever store is there. • pikeplacemarket.org Jennifer

Turkish market, Berlin

Photograph: Manfred Glueck/Alamy

Berlin’s most charming flea market takes place next to the stunning Landwehrkanal every other Sunday. While tourists head to Mauerpark, this is where, to me, the real fun (and bargains) can be found. If you’ve ever wondered where Berliners pick up their unique clothes, answers can be found here. You can quickly assemble a new clubbing outfit from one of the many stalls where hungover Neuköllners are passing on half their wardrobe. There is also plenty of East German kitsch, straight from the attic, beautiful kids’ clothes and toys, and food from Japanese, French and Turkish stalls, which you can eat on the banks of the canal. Go late, like a local, coffee in hand. • tuerkenmarkt.de Katie

Mercado de Nuestra Señora de África, Tenerife

Photograph: Helmut Corneli/Alamy

The beautiful market building with its statues and flowers was gorgeous, but more astounding were the displays of seafood, fruit and vegetables. The colour and variety of the produce blew my mind. When you realise that this market was threatened with extinction and was saved by a group of merchants, it becomes even more impressive. Fighting the invasion of junk food and big box stores, they formed a non-profit group and eventually were rewarded by the Canarian Government and the Santa Cruz City Hall for restoring the market as a hub for the community. • On Facebook Kate Holbrook

El Mercado Central de Atarazanas, Málaga, Spain

Photograph: Getty Images

El Mercado Central de Atarazanas is the indoor food market in the centre of Málaga, selling fresh local produce. The building is impressive, with a huge stained-glass window at one end, but of equal artistic merit are the displays of seasonal fruit and veg. We watched the fishmongers at work on the latest catch and were tempted by the charcutería and olive stalls. There are a couple of bars inside, opening out on to the street but we retired to an old sherry bar, only a five-minute walk away, to toast our purchases. • malagaturismo.com Moira

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Masala Maarke: A Luxurious Vegetarian Dining Experience in Science City, Ahmedabad

When it comes to experiencing unlimited vegetarian lunch and dinner in a luxurious setting, Masala Maarke in Science City is a true gem. Known for its exquisite ambiance, impeccable service, and an expansive menu featuring purely vegetarian delights, this best restaurant in science city offers a dining experience that is both indulgent and wholesome.

Ambiance & Setting

Masala Maarke boasts an elegant and serene atmosphere that welcomes diners with warm tones and sophisticated decor. The spacious seating, ambient lighting, and calming music create the perfect environment for a relaxed and delightful vegetarian meal. Whether you’re planning a family gathering, a casual meetup with friends, or a peaceful solo meal, Masala Maarke provides the ideal setting.

Unlimited Buffet Experience

At Masala Maarke, the unlimited lunch in science city and dinner buffet is a gastronomic journey. Every item is thoughtfully prepared, reflecting a balance of tradition and innovation. With an extensive menu that caters to diverse palates, you can indulge in a wide range of vegetarian options without limits.

Live Counters

One of the highlights of the experience is the interactive live counters, where you can watch chefs prepare your food just the way you like it. This feature adds a fun, personalized touch to your dining experience.

Signature Touches

From starters to desserts, the buffet showcases a variety of cuisines, each made with fresh ingredients and authentic flavors. The variety ensures there's always something new to discover.

Why Choose Masala Maarke?

100% Vegetarian: Perfect for those seeking a meat-free dining experience without compromising on variety and taste.

Luxury Redefined: From decor to service, everything is designed to provide a premium experience.

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Great for All Occasions: Whether it’s a birthday, anniversary, or casual outing, Masala Maarke caters to all.

Health-Conscious Choices: Includes fresh salads, steamed dishes, and low-oil options for the health-conscious diner.

Perfect Location in Science City

Conveniently located in the bustling Science City area, Masala Maarke is easy to access and provides ample parking space. The location makes it a favorite choice for locals and visitors alike.

Conclusion

Masala Maarke offers a luxurious vegetarian dining experience like no other. Its unlimited lunch and dinner buffets feature a thoughtfully curated menu, catering to every palate. If you’re in Science City and looking for a memorable, meat-free feast in an elegant setting, Masala Maarke is the place to be.

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10 gift ideas that don't take up any space

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10 gift ideas that don't take up any space

Maybe your brother hates clutter, or your best friend lives in a shoebox-size city apartment. Or maybe your New Age aunt has announced that she is eschewing materialism and won’t accept physical gifts this year. When you’re shopping for recipients like these, you can’t go wrong with a present that takes up zero square feet. Instead, focus on giving experiences instead of stuff. And if the experience isn’t too pricy, maybe you can come along too.

Excluding physical vouchers or cards, this list includes no permanent objects or gift cards intended to purchase permanent physical objects. Even with that restriction, we found 10 gift ideas that should suit a range of tastes.

Travel can reduce stress, depression, and even heart attack risk (really!) while increasing satisfaction and creativity. But even if you’re taking a simple weekend trip, the expenses can add up. Subsidize someone’s journey by helping cover these costs. Most airlines let you purchase gift cards that can go toward a plane ticket, and for ground-based travelers, you can buy cards for Amtrak or certificates for specific car-rental services. If you’d prefer to put your contribution toward staying somewhere nice, try a gift card for Airbnb, Hotels.com, or the recipient’s favorite hotel chain. Just make sure that they tag you in any Instagram photos from the trip.

Massages and other spa treatments simply make you feel better. In fact, studies show that even mice enjoy receiving massages. This year, buy your frazzled friend a gift certificate for a massage or splurge on a spa day for both of you. Working with a budget? You can pull off a DIY spa experience with some homemade bath bombs.

We all make New Years resolutions to eat better and exercise more—but science shows that we’re unlikely to keep them. And it’s way more pleasant to hit a nice gym than a cheap one. Help your friend keep those resolutions by paying for a couple months of a swanky gym membership. If a full membership’s price tag is too steep, you can at least purchase a few exercise classes. And if your friend needs more motivation, sign yourself up for the same classes so you can hang out while you sweat it out.

There’s something magical about walking through a museum. The problem is, unless you live near a free institution, those admission fees can add up. Luckily, a membership will take care of the charges. Whether your friends prefer to stare at oil paintings or dinosaur bones, you can probably figure out which nearby museums are their favorites. If the membership fee is too pricey, buy a single admission ticket or write an IOU for a visit.

Rather than a year’s worth of museum access, your friend may prefer a one-day experience. For the bold, an outdoor adventure should fit the bill. After all, a spike of excitement-induced adrenaline once in a while can better prepare the body to deal with everyday stresses. Plus, it puts your senses on high alert and may be able to reduce pain and even prime your immune system. Make it happen with a gift certificate for skydiving, bungee-jumping, or even playing with giant construction equipment in an extreme sandbox. Bonus points for giving a group activity, such as a paintball session: Now it’s a gift for you, too.

Not everyone loves spending time outdoors. So plan a special indoor excursion for your gift recipient, one she would never buy for herself. For an animal lover, buy admission to an aquarium; for a theater buff, get your hands on tickets to a play; for a music lover, book amazing concert seats. Alternatively, let your friend take herself out: Free up her busy schedule with an offer to watch her kids or pets.

Speaking of house-sitting, one of the most useful gifts you can give—and also one of the most cost-effective—is helping around the home. To be clear: This isn’t a cutesy “I will clear up after 1 dinner” IOU. For max effectiveness (and gratitude), you need to promise something that will actually save the recipient time and effort. Giving the gift of time could actually make its recipient happier than a physical present would. So if you intend to clean, then clean the entire house. Or take care of a nagging chore that the giftee really means to tackle, but might not get done without your aid: Washing windows, repairing nail-holes, clearing gutters, shampooing carpets, or even painting a room.

And then there’s food. If you’re comfortable in the kitchen, cook (and clean up after!) a warm, colorful meal or, for someone with a sweet tooth, bake a cake or pie. If you can burn a dish just by looking at it, then cover the cost of a restaurant visit or buy some pastries from a bakery. For the over-21 crowd, don’t rule out alcoholic beverages. You can pick up a nice microbrew or bottle of wine, or make your own beer.

We all like to veg out in front of a screen or two. But between Netflix, Hulu Plus, YouTube Red, Amazon Prime, and premium cable services like HBO Now, all those subscriptions can sap your wallet. Help a fellow viewer by covering just one of these streaming subscriptions, even if it’s only for a couple months. For music lovers, skip the video streaming and get a subscription to Spotify. Or if your friend prefers to watch a big screen, pony up for a few months of MoviePass.

This item won’t work for every giftee, but if your friend or relative feels passionately about a cause—speaking up for science, fighting breast cancer or ALS, helping the homeless—then consider donating to a relevant organization in his or her name. You’ll be giving a thoughtful gift, reducing waste, and supporting a good cause all at once. And after all that sweetness and light, your friend had better buy you an awesome gift in return.

Interested in talking about deals and gadgets? Request to join our exclusive Facebook group. With all our product stories, the goal is simple: more information about the stuff you’re thinking about buying. We may sometimes get a cut from a purchase, but if something shows up on one of our pages, it’s because we like it. Period.

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The future of food: upcycling food waste and the blue economy

I found the article below on blue economy and thought it quite interesting to post. It’s fascinating to see how creative some companies have become to create products for a blue economy where resources can be continuously upcycled.

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AGRICULTURE | OTHERS

MAY 10, 2017

Ugly food gets a facelift

Bread becomes beer and beer becomes bread

From trash to table

Growing food on plastic?

Upcycling’s going big in the future

Sustainability has become a watchword of business in the 21st century, and it’s now common to find consumer products that incorporate recycled content. But with the global population expected to top 9.7 billion by 2050, and waste expected to continue apace of that growth, we need to think more creatively about how we turn trash into treasure. Saving our planet – and our future – demands that we act individually and think collectively, reimagining the waste we produce as a source for new products.

But individual invention isn’t enough. An approach called the ‘blue economy’ offers a vision of the cascading business models that can make the necessary changes a reality. In contrast to ‘green,’ which is often expensive (think organic produce or fair-trade clothes) or suspicious of economic development, ‘blue’ embraces the environment (the blue of the sky and the oceans) and entrepreneurship. First imagined by Gunter Pauli in his The Blue Economy: 10 years – 100 innovations – 100 million jobs, it’s an idea that’s quickly coming into its own and reshaping local and global economies.

Ugly food gets a facelift

Nearly a third of the world’s food is wasted, and in developed countries, this is often the result of nothing worse than an unsightly blemish on fruits or vegetables. In the UK, for example, as much as 40 percent of produce is rejected for purely cosmetic reasons. This food is perfectly edible, sanitary, and fresh – it’s just a little ugly. A growing legion of blue entrepreneurs want to give this ugly food a delicious facelift, reimagining what would otherwise go to waste as a boon to their businesses. Purchasing these cheap eats at a discount, they turn them into upmarket foodstuffs, the tomato salsa and hummus that consumers crave. ChicP, Rubies in the Rubble, and Snact are just a few of the innovators reimagining their supply chain, ending food waste, and creating new business models that are far more friendly to the planet.

Nearly a third of the world’s food is wasted, and in developed countries, this is often the result of nothing worse than an unsightly blemish on fruits or vegetables.

Bread becomes beer and beer becomes bread

And it’s not just fruit and veg that finds the trashcan rather than the table. Because of mismatches in supply and demand, 46 million slices of bread are wasted every year. The food-conscious brewery, Toast Ale, uses unbought bread to brew craft beer. Louisa Ziane, Toast Ale’s chief brand and finance manager, thinks that this fun approach to a serious problem can bring more people to the blue table. “Our bigger objective is to get rid of food waste globally, so there isn’t surplus in the supply chain,” she says. Her microbrew is a fun step in that direction.

But brewing produces its own waste products, and Dan Kurzrock, the co-founder of ReGrained, watched how spent grains quickly accumulated when he brewed his own beer at home. After boiling in water, these grains – mostly barley – get thrown out, despite their remaining nutrient value. After some experimenting with his business partner, he’s come up with a line of snack bars made from grains he sources from breweries. Although they’re only making a dent in the brewery waste around San Francisco now, they think the future’s bright. They’re researching pretzels and cookies, the next step in their journey to upcycle spent grain.

From trash to table

To really understand the power of the blue economy, you need to see the impact of cascading and systemic business models. In the Netherlands, for instance, each person consumes about 5.3 kilos of coffee a year. When you multiply that by the 17 million people who call Dutch cities their homes, you can easily imagine the mountains of spent coffee grounds that are sent to landfills as waste. Moreover, these previously useless byproducts simply cost money to transport and dispose. But innovative thinking is changing that, repurposing trash into a viable part of a supply chain. In Montreal, for instance, Dominique Lynch-Gauthier and her business partner Lysiane Roy Maheu are repurposing coffee grinds and spent grains from a local brewery. By mixing them with straw, they produce a custom substrate to grow the delicious and popular oyster mushroom. They supply local restaurants with the delicacy, ensuring freshness, and then pass the substrate along to local farmers who use it as animal feed. This is the cascading effect of the blue economy – is repurposed in multiple stages, creating added value at each level.

This idea is being pursued in Rotterdam as well. Annelies Goedbloed founded HaagseZwam, using freshly discarded coffee grounds from local cafes and restaurants to grow mushrooms. Mixing the grounds with mushroom spores, water, and chalk, she places them in perforated bags and waits. In a matter of weeks, she can harvest mushrooms, using the same bag up to three times. She sells the mushrooms back to some of her suppliers of coffee grounds, and sells the used media for packaging and compost.

And coffee waste is useful in other ways, too. Arthur Kay, an architecture student at UCL, was working on a coffee shop project when he started asking whether used coffee grounds could be repurposed. By drying and compressing them into bricks, he discovered that they outperform conventional furnace fuels like wood, opening the door for a spectacular re-use of the ready commodity. He’s currently researching oil extraction from the spent grounds, oil that can be sold to the chemical industry or transformed into biofuel. His company, Bio-bean, now recycles 10% of the UK’s used coffee.

Growing food on plastic?

Much of what makes the blue economy work is creative experimentation. This is nowhere more evident than with a new process to turn plastic waste into food. Katharin Unger worked with a team of designers in collaboration with Utrecht University to culture mycelium on plastic waste. The system is called the Fungi Mutarium. Here’s how it works: nutrient rich seaweed cups are filled with plastic scraps, and a slurry of water and mycelium is poured in; over a few days, the fungus begins eating, covering the cup and dissolving the plastic for food, eventually resulting in an edible, open-topped pod. Given that plastic waste is a global problem affecting both land and water, turning this trash into food is an exciting possibility.

Upcycling’s going big

Individually, these small scale businesses won’t save the planet. But Jonathan Deutsch, a Drexel University professor of food science, says that the major players are already taking notes. These multinational food companies are more likely to look in than out, turning to the wasted nutrition they discard while making their primary products. Chris Cochran, the executive director of the food nonprofit, ReFED, agrees. “What was once considered ‘waste’ — or an accepted cost of doing business — is now seen as an asset and revenue generator.” And the food-waste upcycling industry is growing, from a low of 11 such companies in 2011 to 64 now.

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What's so healthy about Japanese food?

The bad news first: what's not that healthy about Japanese food

The biggest health issue with Japanese cuisine may be that it's centered around refined carbohydates, in the form of white rice, noodles made white flour, and bread - most of the bread consumed in Japan is as white as snow. Some people think soba noodles are healthier than other types of noodles, and while buckwheat (soba) may have some beneficial qualities, most of the soba you can get, especially the dried kind, contains a lot of white wheat flour (buckwheat on its own is pretty hard to form into thin noodles).

Japanese cuisine is quite high in salt. Condiments like soy sauce are quite salty of course, but there are lots of salt-preserved foods like umeboshi, pickled, salt-cured vegetables and fish. Salt was very important as a preservative before the widespread adoption of canning and refrigeration, as were drying/dehydrating, smoking and sugar. Until fairly recently the leading cause of death in Japan was by diseases related to high blood pressure, such as stroke. (Both my maternal grandparents died of stroke-related complications.) If you don't have blood pressure problems you don't have to worry too much about salt probably, but if you do it is an issue.

Modern Japanese cuisine, from the Meiji period on, has quite a lot of battered, breaded and deep fried foods. Tempura has been around for a while, and it's been joined by things like tonkatsu, ebifurai (breaded deep fried shrimp), korokke (Japanese croquettes), menchikatsu and more.

Sugar is used quite a lot in savory dishes. Mostly it's used in tiny amounts, but some dishes are quite sugary even if they are savory. (One reason for could be that traditionally, Japanese meals did not have a dessert course; sweet things were eaten as in-between meal snacks.) Although a spoonful at a time of budo mame will not hurt me too much, I do have to limit my intake of it severely.

Some of the most popular Japanese dishes around the world are sadly not that healthy. Besides the issues with sushi, ramen for example is wheat noodles in a fairly fatty (but oh so tasty) broth; tonkatsu is, as mentioned above, breaded and deep-fried; and Japanese curry is basically a hearty European style stew served over a big mound of white rice.

The slightly dubious news: things that may not be as healthy as claimed

Two foods that are integral part of Japanese cooking are tofu and green tea. Tofu is a great source of vegetable based protein, that has been eaten for hundreds if not thousands of years in East Asian countries. However, when people take the idea behind tofu and consume massive amounts of it, in the form of soy protein isolate and so on, it may or may not cause some problems. I do feel there's quite a lot of bad science around this issue, too. Western anti-soy/tofu advocates tend to underreport the typical amounts of tofu that Japanese or Chinese people traditionally eat (it's not that uncommon to eat a whole block of it at a meal by yourself for example), but it's really hard to over-eat plain tofu the way you can over-dose perhaps on protein shakes and the like.

Green tea has also been consumed in East Asia for quite a long time. Green tea has been given all kinds of amazing health benefits - mainly in the West. In the countries where drinking green tea is part of the culture, people don't really think about the health benefits; they just drink it because it's enjoyable. I'm always rather suspicious about things that are purported to have amazing health benefits, because it seems to me that the more exotic and foreign or just plain odd something is, the most miraculous it's supposed to be. This applies to almost any place. For instance, in Japan green tea it too common to be miraculous, but pu-erh tea is supposed to lower your cholesterol, make you lose weight, and grow hair on your head. (I just made the last part up, but you get the point.) Green tea probably does have some health benefits, but drinking green tea while maintaining an otherwise unhealthy lifestyle is not going to make you healthy. And again, there's really no telling what will happen to your body if you take massive amounts of any food, no matter how 'natural' it is.

The good news: The healthy parts of Japanese cuisine

I'll get to what I think is the healthiest aspect of Japanese cuisine in a minute, but to go over some individual things:

The wide variety of vegetables and legumes (beans) consumed is a good thing. The Japanese diet includes quite a few land and sea vegetables (seaweed). Not that many cuisines are into sea vegetables, but they are very low in calories, pretty high in fiber and packed with minerals. Beans are a big part of Japanese cooking too.

Seafood is mostly good too. Fish is lower in calories generally speaking than meat, and the fats it contains are of the 'good' kind. (The biggest things we have to be concerned about regarding fish consumption these days are the near-extinction of some species, and the amount of mercury.)

Fermented products add various kinds of beneficial flora to our digestive systems, which are critical to their er, smooth functioning. Miso is the best known fermented food in Japan, but there are also a wide variety of fermented preserved foods, as well as rice malt or koji, both sweet and salty. Salt-cured rice malt or shio-kōji has become very popular in Japan in recent years, and I see it slowly making its way onto the shelves of Japanese grocery stores in other countries too. I hope it becomes as commonly available as miso because it's really versatile. People have been using sakekasu or sake lees in cooking for a long time too. I don't count the use of sake and mirin, two alcoholic products, as part of the 'healthy fermented foods' mix, but the lees or mash left over after sake production are pretty low in alcohol and full of that beneficial flora. (Soy sauce is too salty to be taken in amounts big enough to take advantage of its fermented nature.)

Japanese cuisine also uses quite a few things that are naturally high in fiber and low in calories. Shirataki noodles is the best known of these: it seems to be trendy all around the world, or at least in North America and Europe, as a 'guilt-free' alternative to pasta. There are other foods like that too, such as konnyaku which is made from the same substance as shirataki. I described some of these foods in a mini-series a while back: seaweed or sea vegetables, dried vegetables, and of course konnyaku and shirataki.

The healthiest aspects of Japanese food culture

The best, healthiest parts of Japanese cuisine have little to do with individual food items. It has to do with the way food is consumed: in moderation, and with lots of variety. During a typical day, a Japanese person consumes about 15 to 20 types of food if not more; nutritionists in Japan urge everyone to eat at least 30 different types of food a day. This may seem impossibly daunting if you come from a meat-and-two-veg food culture, but it's not a big stretch in Japanese food culture. If you eat a lot of different foods, you are much more inclined to eat a healthy balanced diet. Of course you can cheat and choose 30 types of snack foods and candies, but that would be silly. As I explained during the Japanese Cooking 101 course, a typical Japanese meal has '1 soup, 3 dishes" besides the main carbohydrate. Even if you don't cook Japanese style a lot, trying to add more variety to your meals may make your everyday meals just a bit healthier.

And the other part of Japanese cuisine, or Japanese food culture, that makes it relatively healthy is small portions and moderation. If you go to Japan you will see that the streets of its cities, especially Tokyo, are just filled with restaurants and various food related establishments. People enjoy a huge variety of cuisines and foods, some of them not at all inherently 'healthy'. French pastries for example are tremendously popular, despite reports to the contrary. All kinds of junk food abound in stores. Yet, most Japanese people manage to stay pretty slim. It's all about portion size and moderation. You can eat your cake and your ramen and your tonkatsu, as long as you don't eat it all the time or in huge portions and you balance it out with other foods. It's not a sexy quick-fix kind of characteristic that grabs headlines. But I'm convinced it's the most important one.

Bonus: Maki's basic rules for healthy eating

This is not nearly as concise as Michael Pollan's rule of "eat food, not too much, mostly plants", and I sort of disagree with him on some things...but anyway here's a list I came up  with yesterday when answering this question on Quora.

eat a lot of vegetables

a decent amount of fruit

a moderate amount of protein and carbohydrates

monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats over saturated or trans fats

don't forget fiber

as well as getting some beneficial flora into your system via fermented foods

watch out for sugar and refined carbohydrate overload (critical if you're a diabetic; still important if you don't)

some people need to watch their salt intake

variety is good

And above all, MODERATION.

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“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.” – Confucius

For many, food is an experience. It is both a science and an art. It is meant to be savored and enjoyed. In a culture with such passion for food, it is no surprise that we also like talking about it. While the Chinese share that love of language, they also have a love of food. Over their centuries-long history, the Chinese have composed an innumerable collection of legacy – including food.

China Wok is a cheerful red and yellow eatery on Purna Das Road. There are narrow steps that take you to a mezzanine floor – and here there are just four tables placed tightly together. The newly opened outlet  and has a very fresh feel to it and served authentic Chinese food. China Wok is where you go when you want the classic (somewhat) greasy, succulent, mouth watering, take-out Chinese food that brings back nostalgic memories of brown paper bag family dinners when no-one feels like cooking.  Great Chinese food even the Chinese would be impressed.

Where do I start? Well lets do the obvious first then shall we? FANTASTIC, and I don’t say that lightly. Varun Rajgarhia, the absolutely lovely, talented and perfect host and owner. When we arrived, we were greeted with the warmest most sincere smile that was followed by dinner packed with punch. This place is small but mighty. It is a small place, with less than 10 tables. It does not look much from outside. Inside, it is warm, inviting and clean. The biggest thing I can say about this place is call ahead. They are a local institution and fill up quickly. Their small dining room can hold maybe 25-30 covers at a seating so space fills up fast.  The cuisine is authentic, delish and served in huge portions for your penny. As a Chinese Food lover, I have been looking for a genuine, original Sichuan restaurant for a long time. This is definitely a must-go one in South kolkata. The service is good, or sweet. They provide a multitude of choices in the menu, all of those we tried today are damn good.

“China Wok is my take on Authentic Chinese and Thai Cuisine at affordable prices. While there is a plethora of Chinese and Thai restaurants in Kolkata, most of them Indianise their Asian delicacies partly to make the same cheap/ affordable and partly becuase that’s what sells. China Wok is my endeavor to bring Authentic Asian Delicacies to the city at affordable prices. While creating the dishes, we have remained true to both traditional cooking techniques as well as traditional ingredients. It was born out of my principle that food tastes best when it is authentic and hopefully the city of joy feels the same and I am sure will find new love for Authentic Asian Food and its simplicity once they try China Wok”  – Varun Rajgarhia – owner – Asia House

The Dishes We Had : 

Welcome Drinks  :

Sweet and Salt Lime & Cold Drinks – 

Soups :

Spicy Lemon Burnt Garlic Soup – Spicy soup with fresh lemon, burnt garlic and green chilies with chicken. Given the lemon addition, this soup is as good for summer meals as it is in the winter. The recipe combines two of my favorite ingredients: garlic and lemon. Lemon soups have the lightness and brightness that some savory soups miss. This soup joins the savory of garlic with lemon for a fresh-tasting finish.

Eight Treasure Soup – Traditional coriander and chili flavored thick soup with vegetables and mushrooms with chicken. It’s both warming and delicious – and full of ingredients that are GREAT for your health! The first time I had it was at a dinner. It was one of the most delicious, sweet, creamy soups I’ve ever had. I was hooked at first sip!

Starters :

Prik Kai Sot Sai Thod – Chicken wings tossed in Thai sweet chili sauce with kaffir lemon. The combination of both fragrant Sweet Chili Sauce and kaffir lime leaves are what make this recipe special so don’t leave either of them out!  These wings have crispy skin that is full of Thai curry flavor. Yet, they are not spicy hot like some Thai dishes. The crunchy kaffir lime leaves add texture and fragrant, making the wings distinctly Thai.

Asian Barbecued Chicken – Pan roasted Chicken smoked with charcoal and caramelized in Barbecue and butter sauce. This Asian-style version of Berbecued chicken on oyster sauce, soy sauce and roasted garlic, with toasted black peppercorns added a strong and bold flavor to the dish. The sauce is superb glazed on chicken.  Grab some napkins everyone!

Chicken Sui Mai – Wafer thin flour wrappers with minced and served with garlic oil. I bet most of you have heard about Dim sum, which is a southern Chinese cuisine that serves with tea and comes in small portions in bamboo steamer! I will never say ‘no’ to Dim Sum and it will always be one of my favourites! Sui Mai is definitely a “must-order” dish. Here they are making it with chicken instead of prawn or pork, just simply because I think We Bengali are more chicken than pork person! Or perhaps, its purely because they feel like trying something different to serve us. Wafer thin floor wrappers with minced chicken served with garlic oil.  There is something charming about going for this dim sum, I guess it must be something I treasure for a long time. 

Mains :

Kung Pao Chicken –  Diced chicken toast in kung Pao sauce and finished with roasted cashew nuts. Apart from the chicken cubes, this famous dish contains chili peppers, spring onions, garlic, ginger,  Sichuan peppers and most often toasted peanuts, but according to the author cashew nuts are also encountered. It may seem very simple, but the flavours are very unusual and surprising for someone who knows Chinese cuisine from European restaurants. Two things make this dish very unique: Sichuanese peppercorns and the very light sour, sweet and hot sauce prepared with black vinegar.

Pla Pad Kraprow –  Sliced fish tossed in Thai Chili Basil sauce with Birds eye Chili. Healthy bowl of goodness! To be honest this is such a great and uncommon and also a popular dish. Every one like this and i specially like this dish too much.  We were amazed by the perfectly cooked fish, crunchy fried crust, and fragrant and flavorful sauce.

Thai Red Curry (Veg) – Traditional medium spicy Thai red curry with fresh chilies and Ginger. This recipe is so simple and tastes amazing! I had Thai Red Curry powder and mixed it into a paste and found Thai Kitchen organic coconut milk in a can. For speed, I blanched the cauliflower and green beans together; and substituted baby bella mushrooms and Living Herbs basil since I couldn’t find fresh cremini or thai basil. Came out delicious, my teenager even liked it!

Rice & Noodles :

Schezwan Rice (Chicken) – Spicy fried rice tossed with roasted Chili paste , bell peppers and dry Red Chilies. It is a Chinese dish of steamed rice that has been stir-fried in a wok and, usually, mixed with other ingredients, such as eggs, vegetables, and meat, and as such, often served as a complete dish. A treat of flavoured rice, with shreds of chicken topped with a spicy schezwan sauce for an unforgettable hit of deliciousness in your mouth!

Chili Garlic Noodles (Egg) –  Chill Garlic Noodles is a simple stir-fried noodles recipe infused with bold flavors of garlic and hot red chill. A quick, easy and flavourful meal, perfect for entertaining and busy work day. It is a delight to eat. It was so soul satisfying. 

Steamed Rice –  Steamed rice is a staple food for almost any Oriental meal. It is soft and sticky compared to other kinds of Asian rice. 

Desserts :

Darsoan with Ice Cream – Crispy Fried flour strips tossed with burnt honey  and caramelized sugar.  A Chinese style dessert which is exquisite. I love it. This is almost every body’s favourite Desert in any Oriental Restaurant. 

I have had a lot of Chinese food in a lot of different places but I have to say China Wok is right up there in the top 5, I have ever had. It’s my understanding they have a great Chef and his preparation is outstanding. I find that most Chinese food restaurant dishes all have the same flavour profile. NOT the case here, each dish is unique and flavourful.

Staff were extremely pleasant and seemed genuinely pleased to hear how much we enjoyed the dining experience. You would never expect the quality from looking at the outside of the building, it being so non-descipt. Currently the leading Chinese food restaurant in area. I would definitely come back to try the lunch specials too. 

Special Thanks to – 

○ Varun Rajgarhia, owner Asia House for the invitation and amazing hospitality. ○ Chef for providing us such a lovely experience of Steam Food

○ Rajdeep Bhattacharjee for leading us.

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When you need your Chinese fix…China Wok is there! "The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live." - Confucius For many, food is an experience.