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Percent of their food budget the average American spends in restaurants, according to the USDA Economic Research Service. The percentage of money spent in restaurants has risen steadily as Americans work longer hours. From 2010 until now, one out of every 7 new jobs in the country has been a restaurant job.

A famous London restaurant has created a new gin flavored with:

A. Ecuadorian bitter chocolate

B. Plum pudding

C. Earl Grey tea

D. Oysters

The London restaurant Wright Brothers recently partnered with The Ginstitute Distillery of West London, to create an oyster-flavored gin said to have “high mineral notes and a pink-pepper finish.” It’s also claimed to be a perfect gin to accompany seafood dishes. The gin is made with Carlingford oyster shells, which are cold-macerated in neutral spirits and then distilled. The oyster distillate is then added to the gin along with juniper, Amalfi lemons, and kelp seaweed.

Yellow Mellow

It’s mustard season in Napa and Sonoma, California, and everywhere you look, visitors are photographing the neon yellow carpet of mustard growing up around the dark dormant trunks of vines. Mustard has grown wild here… Continue reading

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