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More than 100 Bay Area festivals and fairs are on deck for 2024

From tasty food and drinks to awe-inspiring art, film and cultural celebrations, the festivities ahead look near-endless. Here are all the fabulous fairs and festivals that are coming to the Bay Area in 2024. JANUARY SF Tape Music Festival: Jan. 5-7, Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th St., San Francisco. America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, SFTMF features four concerts of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions projected over a pristine surround system…

A Trip to CosMc’s, McDonald’s New Space-Themed Takeout Chain

By Heather Haddon | Photography by Lucy Hewett for The Wall Street Journal BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—CosMc’s has landed, but visiting now may take a few eons.McDonald’s new restaurant concept is drawing long lines of curiosity seekers since it opened in this Chicago suburb last weekend. The space-themed brand is the fast-food giant’s first new U.S. restaurant concept in its more than 60-year history, designed to deliver a beverage-heavy menu through takeout-focused locations built with multiple drive-throughs.Copyright ©2023Dow

The Steady Global Climb of Sugary Drink Consumption

A study by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, published in Nature Communications, reveals that geographical location significantly influences sugary beverage consumption, with a 16% global increase over 28 years. Consumption rates vary widely by region, with the highest intake in Latin America and the Caribbean. The study highlights the public health risks of sugary drinks and the socio-economic factors influencing consumption, calling for targeted policies to reduce intake. Dietary survey data shows…

Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain review – a peach of a read | Food and drink books

Peach melba, as all the world surely knows, was invented in the early 1890s by Auguste Escoffier, the French chef of the Savoy hotel, for the superstar Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba. At a dinner thrown to celebrate her triumph in Wagner’s Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House, Escoffier presented Nellie with fresh peaches – her absolute favourite – served over ice cream; later, he would amend the recipe by adding raspberry puree. Even today, the Savoy still serves it in one of its restaurants (or at least, a variation…

Ozempic Could Also Help You Drink Less Alcohol

Another reason for the trial’s failure could be that exenatide is much less potent than its newer cousin semaglutide, better known as Ozempic. Now that Ozempic is everywhere, anecdotal evidence is mounting that these drugs reduce cravings not just for food, but for online shopping, smoking, nail-biting, and alcohol.Now, the first empirical evidence to support the idea that drugs like Ozempic could be an effective treatment for AUD is beginning to appear. This week, a new paper published in the Journal of Clinical…

Stuffed by Pen Vogler review – tasting history | Food and drink books

Pen Vogler explains that her new book “is about how society in the British Isles has arranged itself around … two versions of ‘stuffed’”. On the one hand, there is that post-dinner feeling of being pleasantly replete with delicious, wholesome food. But then there’s also “stuffed” in the sense of being trapped in an impossible situation with no safe way out. This is the experience of the millions of Britons currently living with chronic food insecurity, obliged to fill up on cheap meals to satisfy immediate hunger pangs…

Red Bull F1 dominance boosts energy drink sales

Red Bull's Max Verstappen celebrates after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix on Nov. 5, 2023.Amanda Perobelli | ReutersRed Bull Racing's dominance in Formula 1 this year is translating directly to higher sales of its namesake energy drink, the team's principal and CEO, Christian Horner, told CNBC."There's an old adage of, 'Win on Sunday and sell on Monday.' Well, what we do for the Red Bull brand, for the energy drink in advertising the product globally for 23 race weekends a year, we're the biggest marketing impact that…

Can Tequila Really Go Global? This Booze Boss Is Giving It a Shot

Updated Nov. 14, 2023 12:01 am ETListen to article(1 minute)LONDON—Shortly after taking the helm at the world’s largest spirits maker, Diageo CEO Debra Crew made a bold proclamation: She plans to take tequila global.Following a surge in popularity in the U.S., tequila is on track to become the country’s largest spirit this year, an extraordinary milestone for a drink once associated mainly with sugary margaritas and eye-watering shots. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ultra-Processed Food: What We Know About the Potential Health Risks in American Diets

Listen to article(2 minutes)Should your granola bar come with a warning label?Concern is rising about the amount of ultra-processed foods in American diets, and the effect eating so many of those foods has on our health. Part of the problem, nutrition researchers say, is that lots of healthy-seeming items—many breakfast cereals, soups and yogurts as well as granola—fall into that category. Recent studies have linked diets high in ultra-processed foods to increased risks of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular…

Can AI Replace Humans? We Went to the Fast-Food Drive-Through to Find Out

Chatbots are being put to work in fast-food restaurants across the U.S. Our columnist drove through a Hardee’s about 30 times to put it to the test. Chatbots are being put to work in fast-food restaurants across the U.S. Our columnist drove through a Hardee’s about 30 times to put it to the test. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…