News lifestyle 2008-06-18 Andanh.com

Foodie road trip brings magazine to Kentucky Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:23 EDT

Two well-known Kentucky eateries are featured in the July issue of Saveur.

Todd Coleman, the magazine's food editor, and James Oseland, editor-in-chief, hit the road in search of adventures in good eating. They drove from Chicago to New York, stopping at places that were featured in Duncan Hines' Adventures in Good Eating guidebooks from the 1930s to the '60s.

They looked for places that had received the .Recommended by Duncan Hines. seal of approval. On Day 4, the duo stopped in Bowling Green, where Hines was born and raised. They visited with Hines' great-niece Cora Jane Spiller, who took them to dinner at Smokey Pig Bar-B-Que.

The men then headed to Berea to eat at Boone Tavern. The article mentions Bruce Alcorn and Rawleigh Johnson, who have worked in the Boone Tavern kitchen for more than 30 years, and a recipe for Kentucky chess pie from Boone Tavern. Go to www.saveur.com.

DAILY CHECKUP Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:05 EDT
FDA TARGETS FAKE CANCER REMEDIES

The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on teas, supplements, creams and other products that falsely claim to cure, treat or prevent cancer even though they are not agency-approved drugs. All are available for sale on the Internet.

The agency has sent 25 warning letters to companies and individuals marketing these products, FDA officials said Tuesday.

FDA officials said the statements made about these products are dangerous because they could prevent a patient from seeking proper treatment for cancer. They could also harm a cancer patient by interacting with other drugs the patient is taking.

Officials said that if the warnings are not heeded, the agency could seize the products and initiate criminal prosecution.

Maker's Mark caf. gives visitors an edible option Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:19 EDT

LORETTO . It takes years to make the quality bourbon for which Maker's Mark Distillery is known. It took .decades for the distillery to provide a place for .visitors to eat.

About 70,000 people a year tour the historic facility, and visits have been cut short on occasion by rumbling stomachs. Unless guests packed a picnic, they would have had to drive to a neighboring town to get something to eat. But now when hunger pangs strike, .visitors can grab a sandwich at the Toll Gate Caf., which opened last month.

Much of the Toll Gate's menu is .flavored with, or inspired by, bourbon.

Items include bourbon-barbecued pulled pork, chicken salad, pimento cheese, and bourbon cookies . made from scratch by Kasey Dendinger, who with her husband, Andy, owns Catering Creations in La Grange.

Returning from Afghanistan Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:48 EDT

Army National Guard Sgt. Daryl B. Foster has returned to the United States after a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation .Enduring Freedom.

Foster, an armor crew member, has served in the military for 14 years. He is the son of Fred R. and Arlene J. Foster of Lexington.

His wife, Windi, is the daughter of Nancy Beviell of Aiken, S.C. The sergeant graduated in 1981 from Tates Creek Senior High School.

Books describe how sex saved marriage Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:09 EDT

Let's say you and your spouse haven't had sex in so long that you can't remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say, .Honey, you know, I've been thinking. Why don't we do it for the next 365 days in a row?.

That's more or less what happened to Charla and Brad Muller. And in another example of an erotic adventure supplanting married ennui, a second couple, Annie and Douglas Brown, embarked on a similar, if abbreviated journey: 101 straight days of post-nuptial sex.

Both couples document their exploits in books published this month, the latest entries in what is almost a mini-genre of books offering advice about the .sex-starved marriage.. The couples, though, are hardly similar. The Mullers are Bible-studying, steak-eating Republicans from Charlotte, N.C. The Browns are backpacking multi-grain northerners who moved to Boulder, Colo. The Mullers' book, 365 Nights , is rather modest and circumspect in its details. The Browns' book, Just Do It , almost makes the reader feel part of a threesome, sharing everything they used to stimulate sexual desire (it's hard to visualize and even harder to explain).

To many spouses, .married sex. might sound like an oxymoron. And .married-with-children sex. might sound like that elusive antimatter. Indeed, reigniting a couple's desire for each other has fueled an entire therapeutic industry . from Kinsey to Dr. Ruth to Redbook.

Being Mr. Mom can be fun and lonely at the same time
Mike Biewenga, a stay-at-home dad for the last four years, noticed something funny when he took his daughter to story time at a nearby library. Gathered around the reader in a circle, mothers sat farther from him than from other moms.“There was a gap, then me, then a gap, then the rest of the circle,” says Biewenga, 33, of Arlington Heights, Ill. “And I mean, I shave, I comb my hair. I’m a normal-looking guy.”

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