Limericks, Round 2 There once was a Klingon named Rom
who never went to her prom,
so she dressed up instead
every night before bed
and dreamed of the dance all night long.
There once...
J'adore le fromage While attempting to think of a topic for this blog post, my sister (oh-so-helpfully) suggested that I write about cheese. This was a new area of interest for me, but one that...
Fred (The Limerick) There once was a fellow named Fred,
who wanted to stand on his head.
He did so for hours,
used all of his powers,
and finally fell over dead.
-- An interesting,...
There once was a Klingon named Rom
who never went to her prom,
so she dressed up instead
every night before bed
and dreamed of the dance all night long.
There once was a girl named Suzanna
who got banished to the savannah.
She wanted some water
so as it got hotter,
she ate up a cactus named Anna.
(For Dakota)
There once was a girl named Dakota
who wanted to build her own boat-a
she got hammer and nails,
and a couple of sails,
and floated around in a moat-a
(For Kari)
There once was a girl named Kari
who had a gorilla so hairy.
She trained him up nice,
and fed him some rice,
and sold him to some guy named Larry!
Researchers have found strong evidence that coffee reduces the risk of several serious ailments, including diabetes, heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver.
Coffee contains antioxidants that help control the cell damage that can contribute to the development of the disease. It is also a source of chlorogenic acid, which has been shown in animal experiments to reduce glucose concentrations.
Caffeine, perhaps coffee’s most famous component, seems to have little to do with it; studies that looked at decaffeinated coffee alone found the same degree of risk reduction.
people who drank four to six cups of coffee a day had a 28 percent reduced risk compared with people who drank two or fewer. Those who drank more than six had a 35 percent risk reduction.
a typical serving of coffee contains more antioxidants than typical servings of grape juice, blueberries, raspberries and oranges.
“I wouldn’t advise people to increase their consumption of coffee in order to lower their risk of disease,” Dr. van Dam said,
While attempting to think of a topic for this blog post, my sister (oh-so-helpfully) suggested that I write about cheese. This was a new area of interest for me, but one that is dear to Kari. So this posts draws upon her for inspiration.
It’s interesting to note that a word one might know in a foreign language is often cheese. Queso, for instance, is overly used for naming any sub-par cheese and salsa concoction sold in a convenience store. For that reason, you ask nearly any average American what queso is, and he/she will correctly answer.
In the realm of 3+ star restaurants, those that attempt to instill a sense of a foreign dining experience in its patrons, use of the word fromage is frequent. Likewise, the Italian “formaggio” is not altogether unusual.
Cheese, while universally known, is a topic of some discord. For example, my friend who spent a year in France as an exchange student, swears against yellow cheeses of any sort. The yellow is apparently too unnatural – cheese and even butter are originally white.
On the other hand, another friend swears against white cheese. She refuses to enjoy any cheese on her delicious Subway sandwiches because they no longer serve yellow American cheese, which she much prefers. “It’s tastier.”
So while not necessarily delving into too much depth about this controversial subject, I feel that I have presented a few rather unconventional thoughts in the everlasting conversation on cheese. Maybe next time you bump into someone in the dairy aisle at the grocery store, you’ll have something interesting to discuss.
