I don’t know anything about the Fat Monk depicted on a bottom corner of the label hoisting a wine glass, halo hovering over his head. But I would like to second that halo for making a terrific everyday Pinot at an everyday price. I first tasted this wine when an astute friend brought it to dinner months ago. She’d scooped up the last few bottles at Surfas but kept an eye out and when they restocked, she picked up half a dozen bottles for me. Now it seems to be around at a few more places. The Ca

Tiny temptations high on cute, low on guiltWhat’s less than 2 inches wide, covered in candy and impossibly adorable?A cake pop, those irresistibly moist confections made by mixing crumbled cake and frosting. The blogger Bakerella first unleashed these miniature cakes on sticks back in 2007. Once they went viral, pastry chefs, home bakers, even Starbucks jumped on the trend, creating ambitious shapes and speckled surprises at about 200 calories a pop.As a result, a miniature movement is upon us.I

Maejakgwa is a type of cookie made by kneading wheat flour with salt and ginger juice. It is sliced thinly and slit, then flipped over after squeezing one end into the slit. The cookies are fried in oil, coated with sugar syrup, and sprinkled with pine nut and cinnamon powder. Maejakgwa gets its name from its shape, which is similar to a sparrow (jak) in an apricot (maehwa) tree. Ingredients● white dough : 70g wheat flour, 0.5g salt, 30g ginger juice ● pink color dough : 25g wheat flour, 0.2g sa

Akira Back talks about where Korean food should be headedKoreans who tasted a Korean-American chef’s Las Vegas cuisine in Seoul earlier this week might have found some common ground with him. Akira Back’s seven-course Las Vegas meal was a representation of his memories of Korea and life experiences. “When they eat it, they will go like ‘I ate this when I was little,’” Akira Back, the executive chef at the Yellowtail Japanese Restaurant & Lounge at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, told The Korea

A Portuguese flight attendant received a surprise marriage proposal from her boyfriend during a flight from Lisbon to Barcelona, according to news reports.The 29-year-old flight attendant Vera Silva was caught off guard when her boyfriend Joao Vieira suddenly stood up in middle of a flight, asking her to marry him in front of about 80 passengers. Vieira had told his now-fiancé that he will be leaving for a business trip.Scarlet-faced but beaming, Silva gladly accepted the proposal.“I thought abo

A study has suggested that frequent porn use by men can hurt their romantic partners’ self esteem as well as increase disatisfaction in their relationships, Livescience.com reported.The research by Destin Stewart, a clinical psychology intern at the University of Florida, sought to clarify the anecdotal theory that porn can harm relationships. Stewart asked 308 heterosexual college women, aged 18-29 years old, to fill out questionnaires about their current partner‘s porn use as well as their rel

SAN FRANCISCO (Yonhap News) ― With more than 80 Buddhist centers ringing California’s San Francisco Bay, the area is hardly bereft of such belief. But two stand out among them, specializing in what has remained in Korea a less dominant sect: Korean Seon (Zen) Buddhism. One of the centers also stands out for its approach to teaching.The Empty Gate Zen Buddhist Center is the larger of the two zen-based centers, located in the heart of the East Bay city of Berkeley near the University of California

The nose has an important cosmetic function and also serves an even more important physiological role especially in respiration. Any problems with the respiratory function of the nose will lead to symptoms of nasal obstruction. People with normal respiratory function are not conscious of their breathing but patients with nasal obstruction as well as those around them experience stuffiness as a result.There are several conditions which cause nasal obstruction, the most common of which is rhinitis

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. ― Babies can be good yoga partners. Just ask the folks at Pacific Cultural Center’s Ashtanga Yoga Institute.Babies live in the present moment, are flexible and like to stretch. But the Mama & Baby Yoga classes are really for the moms.One or two volunteers attend, holding and distracting the little ones who have had their fill of a quiet yoga practice, allowing their moms to continue with the asanas, or poses.A mother of two, instructor Treea Clements said she started teaching

LOS ANGELES ― Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can’t get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer.A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely to die during the study than their counterparts who eschewed the brew. In fact, men and women