Top 10 Maxim Hottest Women in 2011

Top 10 Maxim Hottest Women in 2011

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What's next after Blu-ray?

What's next after Blu-ray?
- I think that Blu-ray will suceed in becoming mainstream but never get as big as DVD. I also think that it will be the last big mainstream physical media. It is almost certainly the last disk based media. There will be more layers for backups and computer use but thats it.
The next one will be holographic blocks or something. It will not just be for movie watching, it will run programs like virtual girlfriends like on The 6th Day or tennis instructors like in Total Recall. There will be a vitual chef projected into the kitchen helping you make recipies etc. There will be a blackmarket for specialty stuff like sex programs with your favorite actress's head pasted on the holographic matrix. Then come the feedback gloves and other sicko attachments for long distance relationships. Virtual phone calls. In a few decades hell we could have full fledged holodecks.

travel in japan

travel in japan

 

Akihabara first started specializing in electronics when people dealing in black market radio parts began setting up shop under the elevated JR railroad after World War II. As Japan's manufacturing technology and economy grew during the 50's and 60's, the shops starting selling televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, and other consumer household goods.

Many computer stores started opening stores in Akihabara during the PC boom of the 80's and 90's, and otaku obsessed with computers and anime poured into the area. Japanese electronics manufacturers sometimes send prototypes of new products to Akihabara stores in order to see how popular they are with consumers there before release them into the national and international markets.

The urban legend that Coca Cola was originally green when it was first created is actually false (according to the company itself), but the idea still lives on in the hearts and minds of many of us. So it was with no little excitement that I first beheld Asahi's 'Green Cola' sitting on the convenience store shelves. It didn't take me long to figure out what was wrong though, it's not actually green. Sigh. Turns out that the 'green' isn't referring to the colour, but to the supposedly ecological way it's made. However there doesn't seem to be anything particularily environmentally friendly about it, unless the assertion that the drink's lack of colourants, caffeine and preservatives is supposed to equal green? Maybe Asahi is hoping people would focus on the gimmick instead of asking questions.Mt. Kumotori is Tokyo's highest mountain at 2012 meters. The route Kumi and I took started from Mitsumine shrine (Chichibu), finished in Kamosawa (Okutama), and required an overnight stay in a mountain lodge called Kumotori Sanso. The day started grey and overcast (as many Tokyo weekends are prone to do) but we decided to bite the bullet and just go, having planned this hike a number of weeks ago. We arrived at Mitsumine shrine (above photo) at around 11am (about 3.5 hours from our apartment) and took a quick look around the complex. Although the 2000 year old mountain shrine is supposedly worth a second look, we didn't stay long as it was already late in the morning and we had a 6 hour hike ahead of us. Although it wasn't raining, there was a dense mist surrounding everything.Kumi registers us for our hike at the beginning of the trail (below shot), in case we get lost or eaten by bears.

Akihabara now has over 250 electronics stores, from huge megachains to small part suppliers. Most of the shops are gathered around Akihabara Station and along Chuo Dori (Chuo Avenue), and many of the bigger ones have staff that speak English, Chinese, and Korean. Prices can vary significantly between stores and, unlike most places in Japan, are sometimes negotiable.
Many of the electronics in Akihabara are for use in Japan only and overseas shoppers should be sure to check voltage and warranty requirements before buying electronics to use at home. Duty free shopping is also available to foreigners (passport required) on purchases of more than 10,000 yen at some of the larger stores

The Most Expensive Grilled Cheese Sandwich

The Most Expensive Grilled Cheese Sandwich
By Savory Tv
When we spoke to our friend Average Betty this week, she mentioned that she is reporting for the Grilled Cheese Invitational event in downtown Los Angeles this weekend, a culinary competition in search of the perfect grilled cheese!  Ever since, we’ve had visions of grilled cheese sandwiches dancing in our heads.
Memories of grilled cheese sandwiches go way back into our school years, tomato soup, white bread, and Kraft cheese, served by Mom with a touch of love.   Perfect comfort food.  We started to think about chefs, do any of our favorites make a special version of the childhood classic?    We set off on a mission to find out!
We found an amazing version of the classic sandwich, courtesy of Chef Christopher Lee from the Gilt restaurant in the NYC Palace Hotel. The Price= $50 on the menu. Featured on Gossip Girl, this is perhaps the most expensive grilled cheese sandwich ever. Not that we watch Gossip Girl, we just heard about this episode!   And we have no idea who Chuck Bass is, and have never had a crush on him, really!
We know, times are tough, and most of us are carefully watching our food spending.  Fear not, we can show you how to make our version for much less.  First, watch the video, and then we will disclose our cost cutting suggestion for the sandwich recipe.
Read on for the recipes!


Here is the original recipe courtesy of Chef Chris Lee and MSNBC:
For the Grilled Cheese Sandwich:
• 8 slices of fresh baked white bread; look for a local bakery
• 16 slices of fontina cheese
• 2 tablespoons sweet butter
• 2 oz. fresh shaved black winter truffles
• Salt and pepper
Layer 2 slices of fontina cheese between 2 slices of white bread and shave a couple of slices of truffles in the middle of each sandwich; do the same for all four sandwiches. Heat a large frying pan over medium heat and add the butter. When the butter melts, add the sandwiches and cook until the bread is nice and toasted. Remove and slice sandwiches in half and place onto four plates.
***First of all you can make this exactly as written for much less than $50. You can purchase black or white truffles at any gourmet market while in season, or order them online. Or, to make this even more affordable, simply make sandwich without the truffles, adding black or white truffle oil instead, which is almost just as decadent. Be sure to avoid truffle oils with synthetic components, and stick to a natural, certified organic brand such as Da Rosario. The truffle oil may last 2-4 months if kept in the refrigerator, bring it back to room temperature before using. It is amazing on everything from omelets to asparagus and more. ***
For the Salad:
Place arugula in a small bowl with the vinegar, extra-virgin olive oil, sliced shallots, and season with salt and pepper. Toss the salad well and garnish the plates with it.
For the Smoked Tomato Soup
INGREDIENTS


• 4 ripe large tomatoes
• 2 small shallots, peeled and sliced thin
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced thin
• 3 cup chicken stock or low-sodium broth
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 bunch basil
• 1 bunch chives, sliced thin
Spicy crème fraiche
• 1/2 cup crème fraiche or sour cream
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• Salt and pepper
Special equipment
• Outdoor grill
• 1 cup hickory wood chips
• Aluminum foil
• Blender
DIRECTIONS
Smoking the tomatoes
Core and cut the tomatoes in half. Make a little tray out of the aluminum foil and place the wood chips in the tray. Place the tray in the middle of the grill on the briquettes or coals. Light the chips and let them burn for about 2 minutes; then blow them out. A good amount of smoke should start to form; if not, burn again for another 2 minutes. Place tomatoes over the smoke on the grill flesh side down and then cover the grill. Tomatoes should smoke for about 8 to 10 minutes. Once tomatoes are smoked, remove from the grill and peel.
Making the soup
Start to sweat the shallots and garlic in a medium-size pot over medium heat until translucent. Then add the tomatoes, stock and heavy cream to the pot and simmer for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, blend the soup until smooth. Add the soup back to a clean pot; add the bunch of basil, lemon juice and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Allow the basil to steep for 1 hour, then remove the basil and cool until serving.
Spicy crème fraiche
Add the crème fraiche and cayenne to a bowl and mix well. Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper.
Plating the soup
Heat the soup in a medium pot. Portion the soup into 4 bowls and garnish with the spicy crème fraiche and sliced chives.
For more truffle goodness, check out this video featuring celebrity chef Benjamin Christie on a truffle hunt!

from - http://www.savory.tv/2009/04/23/grilled-cheese-sandwich/

Cooking Delicious Food Using Coffee

By : Mark Cooper

All of the people who love to drink coffee know just how nice it can be to relax with a nice warm cup of coffee. However, most of them do not know that you can actually use coffee in your food too! There are quite e few more uses for coffee, other than its common uses as an ingredient in deserts. This extremely versatile ingredient is often used in barbeque sauces, meat glazes, and pot roasts.

Freshness is absolutely vital when it comes to cooking using coffee. Ideally grind your own coffee beans, and if this isn't possible then buy freshly ground. If your recipe requests brewed coffee then you should make it just before you are ready for it. Make it just as you would a cup of tea that you would drink, but take note of the concentrations. Many recipes require strong coffee, such as coffee from an espresso maker, perhaps two times as strong as you would normally drink.

Meatloaf only used to be popular in Australia, however now it’s popular all over the world. The coffee tastes even better in this delicious coffee sauce.

It is fairly simple to make this sauce - all you need to do is mix a tablespoon of instant coffee with a quarter of a cup of water. Add in half a cup of ketchup; quarter a cup of dry red wine, and a quarter of a cup of Worcestershire sauce. Mix everything together, and then add two tablespoons of vinegar, one ounce of margarine and a squeeze of lemon juice with a pinch of brown sugar.

First heat a cup of sugar with a pinch of salt, and a stick of butter in a saucepan. Once everything has melted, add one teaspoon of vanilla extract, and four ounces of chocolate. Continue to mix to stop it from burning, until it has all melted. Then add one tablespoon of freshly ground coffee. For a different taste, you can also use two teaspoons of espresso coffee.

After mixing for a few minutes, and then put it all into a mixing bowl. Allow it cool to for a while, however keep it still be warm. Mix in three whole eggs and one cup of flour. Pour this mixture into a baking tin, bake in the oven for around 30 minutes. Choose your favorite chocolate cake recipe; add in a cup of vegetable oil, one packet of chocolate pudding, four whole eggs and half a cup of ‘creme de cacao’. Now add one cup of Russian coffee, to make this mix together:

Coffee really is a versatile ingredient you could use it in all sorts of things, from cookies to muffins and all sorts of candy! Well suited to ice cream too, the possibilities are endless!

Coffee syrup is also delicious and easy to make. Mix a cup of sugar with one cup of coffee. Boil it in a saucepan until the sugar dissolves. Simmer for a few minutes and then cool, and go for it!

The most expensive Chinese vodka

The most expensive Chinese vodka
The Chinese company Moutai released to the world market vodka «Red Diamond» («Red Diamond”) worth 20,000 dollars per bottle. According to analysts, such a high price is explained by the desire to draw attention to China’s strong alcohol, which is still not in demand in the global market.

Producers of vodka «Red Diamond» argue that the high price – a reflection of a high quality product. It is produced by 7-fold distillation of special varieties of sorghum, which is 8 times fermented. Each bottle of vodka elite has an electronic lock, which comes off only with a password, which you can find out by phone. New Chinese vodka will be sold in Japan, USA, Russia and Canada.

from - http://delicious-cook.com/news/the-most-expensive-chinese-vodka.html

When Is Food Too Expensive? What's Your Bottom Line?

When Is Food Too Expensive? What's Your Bottom Line?

Posted by Ed Levine, November 28, 2007 at 6:45 AM

More than $20 for an individual-sized pizza at Una Pizza Napoletana? $34.95 for fried calamari at Cipriani? $?? (I couldn't even find the price) for linguine with clam sauce at Il Mulino? $250 for lunch at Per Se? $350 for dinner at Masa? We all have a little cash register-computer in our heads that is constantly ringing when it comes to food and drink. It silently rings when we are being fairly charged for food and drink and it loudly sounds the alarm when we feel we are being ripped off. But everybody's food-and-drink cost alarm is calibrated differently. We all bring a different set of expectations when it comes to something like the cost of food. Let me tell you mine. Then you can tell me yours.
Delicious, handmade food made with love, passion, and great skill by one person is priceless and maybe even a bargain
Small pizzas costing more than $20 made in this way by Anthony Mangieri at Una Pizza Napoletana do not feel like a rip-off to me. Anthony uses superb ingredients, he makes every pizza that's ever been sold at his restaurant, and he believes in his pizza so much there is nothing else on his menu, not a salad, not a vegetable, not a slice of salumi, to distract his customers. I once suggested he add a salad to his menu to add a little variety and to increase his check average. Mangieri demurred. He didn't want anything to get in the way of his pizza. We need more people like Mangieri making food for us, not fewer.

Motivation matters. I know when I'm being ripped off
When restaurants like Il Mulino or Cipriani charge an outrageous amount for linguine with clam sauce or a plain risotto, it just feels wrong, because it has nothing to do with the price of the ingredients and the skill of the person making it. Rather, it's all about restaurateurs taking the measure of their customers and deciding what their traffic will bear. Cipriani customers are almost gleeful about being overcharged. In fact, they feel it is a sign of their status. As Frank Bruni said in the New York Times, "Besides, prices are the point of Harry Cipriani, which exists to affirm its patrons’ ability to throw away money." Il Mulino buries its customers with "freebies" like chunks of cheese and salami so they won't notice how ridiculous the prices are for items on the menu they are actually paying for. And yet many people love Il Mulino. Why is that?
I don't mind paying more for something that is truly special and delicious
Peach growers like Ron Mansfield of Gold Bud Farms in Placerville, California, don't pick peaches until they are at the peak of ripeness. As a result, the crop yield is much lower. So Mansfield charges more for his supremely delicious peaches. And I happily pay for them.
Artistry, obsession, and the diner's experience matter
A meal at Masa in New York costs $350 before beverage, tax, and tip. And yet all serious critics who have eaten there have appreciated Masayoshi Takayama's artistry and the experience of eating at his restaurant. More important, they don't feel they're being ripped off. That tells you something, namely that the 20 people who Takayama cooks for every night feel they are experiencing something unique, special, and worthwhile. Diners eating at Per Se in New York and Alinea in Chicago feel the same way.
People making or growing great food by hand don't get rich doing it. That is not their primary motivation
Mangieri could make more money selling hundreds of lesser quality pizzas at a lower price. Mansfield isn't getting rich growing his special peaches. Money is not what principally motivates them, and that's important to me.

The values of the people making or growing my food inform my perception of the value of their end product. And that's my bottom line

from - http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2007/11/when-is-food-too-expensive-what-is-too-much.html