I still keep a suitcase in Berlin.

I still keep a suitcase in Berlin.
– Marlene Dietrich, Singer, 1957
Berlin, the greatest cultural extravaganza that one could imagine.
— David Bowie, Singer, 1970s
#SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/hello_strange/berlin-cocktail-bar-hello-strange-podcast-160

Live and Direct #DigitalFood Feed the Pilot ;)

Live and Direct #DigitalFood  Feed the Pilot ;)
http://www.solarimpulse.com/widget-flight_strategy

Break down on Coca Cola +

Break down on Coca Cola +

Originally shared by Alex P

Amazing Chart explains what happens within 1 hour of drinking soda.

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100 per cent of your recommended daily intake.) You don't immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (There's plenty of that at this particular moment).

40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.

45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.

60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

60 Minutes: The caffeine's diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you'll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.

>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you'll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You've also now, literally, urinated the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3178341/What-Coca-Cola-REALLY-does-body-just-hour.html is the source of this chart and info on 10, 20, etc minutes effects. I never drink soda. :)



Sugar and high fructose corn syrup added to foods are responsible in part for the epidemic of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. In 1892, there were just two cases of diabetes per 100,000 people, according to a famous medical textbook by Sir William Osler, The Principles and Practice of Medicine. Today, the rate is 9 percent across all age groups, and sadly one of every three children is either diabetic or pre-diabetic."

Complex carbohydrates are much healthier than sugar or high fructose corn syrup. For those needing energy, lentils (see the complete protein they offer at https://plus.google.com/+AlexP/posts/2Var6JvbPzn) and legumes in general are much better than grains or foods with added sugar or fructose syrup. Lentils (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4337/2) and better than beans (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4283/2) since lentils about half the glycemic index (16 versus 29 per 100 grams) of beans and double the fiber (30 versus 16 per 100 grams). Fiber and less sugars really helps to lower blood pressure and prevent diabetes.

Studies show those consuming too many simple sugars [sweet fruits (rich in fructose like watermelon or bananas ► http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1846/2) or sodas or cookies or deserts or processed foods with added high fructose corn syrup or sugar] have higher blood pressure ►http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Hypertension/21000.
Some recommend eating less than 15 g of fructose a day, less than half a banana. No sodas or drinks with added sugar ► http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/25/startling-research-findings-a-newly-discovered-cause-of-high-blood-pressure-and-obesity.aspx. "

Sugar also makes people more violent as the studies below, and hundreds of others, indicate:
1. sugar leads to mental stress ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25280418 (Nutrition. 2014 Nov-Dec;30(11-12):1391-7. )
2. soda intake related to increase in violence ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22025524 (Inj Prev. 2012 Aug;18(4):259-63. )
3. candy consumption as kid related to violence as an adult ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19794208 (Br J Psychiatry. 2009 Oct;195(4):366-7. )

Chill on new #SoundCloud with The Warheads

Chill on new #SoundCloud with The Warheads
https://soundcloud.com/jrs-1-1/black-opium

Banana cake

Banana cake
"that is half naked and half gooey and sticky is offered simply, without any adjective rich fanfare"


Originally shared by Sam Taylor

Banana Cake with Toffee Frosting

Call me crazy but a Banana Cake with Toffee Frosting AND a Toffee Sauce is basically heaven, right? This recipe is so simple, and the result is a showstopper cake fit for any occasion or just any day that needs cake; which of course is all of them!
http://www.pomegranatedays.co.za/banana-cake-toffee-frosting/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=google_plus&utm_source=socialnetwork

Bye bye 2 hours ago :)

Bye bye 2 hours ago :)

Off On The Wall by Cecil Beaton. 1920 ish down the road Wilton.

Off On The Wall by Cecil Beaton. 1920 ish down the road Wilton.
What is elegance? Soap and water!

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser
#CecilBeton

Confit of candied lentil dessert

Confit of candied lentil dessert
Wow one to try worth hitting the translate button :)
Thanks Assiettes Gourmandes great post.

Originally shared by Assiettes Gourmandes
http://www.assiettesgourmandes.fr/2016/04/desserts/lentilles-confites/

May Day, Beltane, and the menace of May Eve

May Day, Beltane, and the menace of May Eve
Fiery sacrifices, outdoor sex and morris dancing at dawn – Professor Nick Groom guides us through the cultural history of May Eve and May Day…

The first of May is Beltane, the pagan festival celebrating summer, so named for the ‘lucky fire’. Beltane fires were traditionally lit in the Central Scottish Highlands on 1 May in rituals that carried threats of human sacrifice.

In one parish, it was recorded in the eighteenth century, a fire was lit and a cake baked and divided into pieces, one of which was daubed with charcoal. The villagers were blindfolded and each picked a piece:

Whoever draws the black bit is the devoted person who is to be sacrificed to Baal, whose favour they mean to implore, in rendering the year productive of the sustenance of man and beast.
Read on below ;) #Beltain
http://thedabbler.co.uk/2015/04/may-day-beltane-and-the-menace-of-may-eve/

PATAX Jazz, flamenco and world music

PATAX Jazz, flamenco and world music
Is today the most promising fusion band of Spain
With more than 42,000 followers on Facebook and 20 million views on Youtube, this group is an unstoppable trajectory.

This ambitious project, led by Jorge Perez , is based on a unique and very personal proposal based on Jazz, and also drinks Flamenco , Latin music , black music and contemporary pop .
Patax took off in March 2016 its third album , entitled A Night To Remember ( Youkalimusic records ), recorded in live .
#Jazz Fresh and New
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loK9EpJylu0&feature=em-subs_digest