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Michael Ruhlman describes Anthony Bordain’s 50th birthday party.

Sweet Nothing—The Triumph Of Diet Soda “It is probably fair to say that Hyman Kirsch, 50 years dead, his once powerful beverage company now a shadow of its former fizzy self, could not have imagined the ways in which his No-Cal soda would change the world.”

Thus Ate Zarathustra Woody Allen discusses “Friedric Nietzsche’s Diet Book”. ” While its authenticity might appear to be a soupçon dicey to the niggling, most who have studied the work agree that no other Western thinker has come so close to reconciling Plato with Pritikin ” “Man is the only creature who ever stiffs a waiter.”

I missed that Alton Brown got thrown off his bike a few weeks ago while filming a new series for Food Network. There’s a painful picture of his after-accident grimace on his site.

Chowhound got a Web 2.0 redesign.