www.icecream.com                         Luxury ice cream maker Häagen-Dazs is launching a new Limited Edition flavour this winter – Chocolate Hazelnut Brittle – available exclusively at the Leicester Square shop from today, 3rd November. The new flavour is a decadent combination of dark chocolate ice cream with a smooth hazelnut swirl and textured pieces of crunchy hazelnut brittle. Chocolate Hazelnut Brittle is lovingly crafted from only the finest ingredients and, like all Häagen-Dazs ice creams, is rich, thick and creamy and contains less air, so it melts slowly in the mouth making the indulgent taste experience last even longer.

To celebrate the launch of the new Limited Edition flavour, Häagen-Dazs will be serving three new delicious creations as part of its winter Collection Menu - Chocolate Journey, Chocolate Fruit & Nut Temptation and Chocolate Hazelnut Blitz.Chocolate Journey
For Chocolate lovers Häagen-Dazs has created the ultimate in indulgent pleasure. Savour the decadent quatro of chocolate ice creams; Belgian Chocolate, Chocolate Midnight Cookies, Choc Choc Chip and the latest Limited Edition Chocolate Hazelnut Brittle brought together to create a unique desert experience. The ice creams are served in four individually prepared mini verrines and layered with brownie pieces, chocolate shavings, cookies pieces and fresh raspberries.

Chocolate Fruit & Nut Temptation
A scoop of the new Chocolate Hazelnut Brittle is served alongside a scoop of Raspberry sorbet and paired with a freshly baked Chocolate Macadamia Brownie, warm chocolate fudge sauce, nut crunch and a swirl of freshly whipped cream. This ice cream combination not only looks stunning but tastes it too!

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/www.healthyjunkie.com   Feeding your family for dimes, nickels or even pennies a serving isn't impossible. It's advisable in this time short on cash and long on worries.The first step is returning to your kitchen, said Chris Kilbride, director of the family nutrition program at the Martin County University of Florida Cooperative Extension. The second step is forgetting what's easy or convenient — you know, those meals in a box.

"People just think habits," Kilbride said. "They're in a habit mode, not a healthy mode."Some of the healthiest foods also are the cheapest. They usually require preparation and planning, building menus based on what you find on sale that week, whether it's fish at Publix or roasts at Winn-Dixie.

"To be a frugal shopper, you have to be a well-informed shopper," said Nancy Leonard, a Treasure Coast dietitian.But spend the time shopping and cooking, and the meals and leftovers usually will feed you for multiple meals, stretching your pennies even further. So what cheap foods should you look for?

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Eating a diet heavy on veggies instead of meat can help keep you thin and your wallet fat.•Check out sales on fresh veggies. Some stores offer steep discounts on seasonal and lightly bruised or overripe fruits and veggies.•After fresh, frozen is best. Buy the store brand bulk bags for the best value, then use them — instead of more expensive meat — as the main ingredient in soups, stews, stir fries and casseroles.

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www.cookingage.com                                                                                Ingredients (serves 4)
400g butternut pumpkin, peeled, cut into 1cm cubes
olive oil cooking spray
4 limes
450g beef rump steak, trimmed
35g packet taco seasoning
400g can red kidney beans, rinsed, drained
310g can corn kernels, rinsed, drained
1/2 cup fresh coriander leaves
4 green onions, thinly sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
Method
Preheat oven to 200°C. Place pumpkin in a roasting pan. Spray with oil. Roast, shaking pan occasionally, for 15 minutes or until golden and tender.
Meanwhile, preheat a barbecue plate or chargrill on medium heat. Juice 2 limes and set aside. Sprinkle beef with taco seasoning. Spray with oil. Cook for 3 minutes each side for medium or until cooked to your liking. Remove to a plate. Cover and set aside for 5 minutes to rest.
Meanwhile, cut remaining limes in half. Cook, cut side down, for 1 minute or until slightly charred.
Place pumpkin in a bowl. Add beans, corn, coriander, onion, garlic and reserved lime juice. Thinly slice beef. Add to pumpkin mixture. Toss to combine. Serve with lime halves.
Notes & tips

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www.Coffees Bar.com  They say that a cup of coffee after a heavy meal helps in digestion and eases the heavy feeling that one may have. But almost always, since restaurants don't really serve a diverse selection of coffee concoctions, and most coffee shops are limited to cookies and pastries, patrons would have to go to two places to indulge in a gastronomic feast and to finish it up with a steaming hot shot of espresso or hot tea.

Mocha Blends promises to change all that.For six years since Mocha Blends opened in Metro Manila, it has changed the way Filipinos dine and enjoy their coffee. For Mocha Blends, good coffee also means good food.In 2006, Mocha Blends opened their first branch in Cebu at Asiatown IT Park in Lahug. As they are open for 24 hours, they enjoy a loyal following among call center agents, who are in abundance in the area, it being the hub of offshore outsourcing companies.

Surprisingly, Ann Go of Ciekro Food Corp. revealed that Mocha Blends' customer base is not exclusive to call center agents. "At first we thought that most of our clients would be call center agents but it turned out that there are also families and other groups who frequent the place," she said. The success of the franchise prompted Mocha Blends franchiser Ciekro to expand the business to a venue with more foot traffic - the mall. And with the opening of the new posh venue in Cebu, The Northwing at SM City Cebu, Mocha Blends expects to have more diverse customers who will surely enjoy both their coffee and food.Offering a wide variety of dishes, Charmaine Mara Young, manager of Mocha Blends, said that costumers would expect a different coffee shop experience the moment they sit in any Mocha Blend shop.

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/www.wineswire.com/   Intake of foods rich in polyphenols, a family of antioxidative compounds found in high concentrations in grapes and red wine, helps reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a review article in the November issue of Nutrition Research.“Consumption of grape and grape extracts and/or grape products such as red wine may be beneficial in preventing the development of chronic degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular disease,” say Wayne R. Leifert, Ph.D., and Mahinda Y. Abeywardena, Ph.D., of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Adelaide, Australia.

The authors review the accumulating evidence that grape polyphenols work in many different ways to prevent cardiovascular and other “inflammatory-mediated” diseases.Polyphenols are natural antioxidants found in grapes and some other plant foods.Their types and actions vary, depending on where in the grape they are found. Grape seeds, grape skin, and grape juice contain several types of polyphenols, including resveratrol, phenolic acids, anthocyanins, and flavonoids.Through their antioxidant effects, grape polyphenols help to slow or prevent cell damage caused by oxidation.

Polyphenols decrease oxidation of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (”bad” cholesterol)-a key step in the development of atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries).Grape polyphenols also have other protective effects on the heart and blood vessels, including actions to reduce blood clotting, abnormal heart rhythms, and blood vessel narrowing.It’s not yet clear exactly how these benefits of polyphenols occur, although there is evidence of effects on cellular signaling and on the actions of certain genes.

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/www.worldof007.com  The Best of Bond site for "The Best of Bond...James Bond" compilation album has been added with two more music videos. Exposing Bond movies' theme song of the 1981 "For Your Eyes Only" and the 1983 "Octopussy", the pair of clips features Sheena Easton's "For Your Eyes Only" and Rita Coolidge's "All Time High" in various formats and resolutions.

Prior to the posting of these two videos, the site has included three other music videos, "A View To A Kill" from Duran Duran, "GoldenEye" from Tina Turner and "The Living Daylights" from A-Ha. While Easton and Coolidge's videos can be enjoyed below, the rest of the clips can be obtained through either AceShowbiz or The Best of Bond. Presented by Capitol/EMI, "The Best of Bond...James Bond" features 23 musical standouts from the Bond movie series and a previously unreleased version of Bond theme by composer John Arnold. Still, it doesn't include "Another Way to Die", the duet between Jack White of The White Stripes and Alicia Keys for "Quantum of Solace".

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www.nightscafe Paris Hilton is set to help Jordan break America..comThe hotel heiress - who met the former glamour model at a London nightclub last month - was so keen on the mother-of-three that she wants to aid her in her attempt to find fame Stateside.Paris told New! magazine columnist Neil Sean: "I love her - I mean she is so crazy, but in a good way, and I think her and her husband Peter Andre will go down a storm back in the US.

There's nothing quite like them over there."Jordan, real name Katie Price, and Peter - who currently star in their own British reality TV show 'Katie and Peter: The Next Chapter' - are now said to be in talks with TV bosses for a series involving Paris showing them round the country when they move there next year.A source said: "Paris will act as their official guide as to what is hot and what is not in America."

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www.bollywood101.com  Katrina Kaif is back from New York where she was shooting for her upcoming film Yuvraaj. She speaks to CNN-IBN correspondent Amrita Panja about her film. How does it feel to be this busy?Katrina: I am very jet lagged, I have been in New York for 45 days at a stretch and my body is set to New York time. Are you the common binding factor in the film Yuvaraaj?Katrina: I think the common factor in the movie is music and love and for me the special element in the film is Anil ji and Salmaan's relationship. Who is more fun to work with?Katrina: When I am on the film set i like to feel that I am working, that we are being serious and we are getting the work done.

So with Anil you feel like you are working more and I kind of like that, with Salman its more like are we working or are we just sitting.You have played a very complicated instrument in the movie, so how much of practice did you do and what was the training?Katrina: When I started doing the training I was really specific that I want to learn how to play at least the basic theme of the movie which is consistent and right. So I had a teacher and every time started playing there would be an awful sound that would come out and everyone would ask me o stop playing it.  

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www.moviereviews.com  An inevitably elegiac air permeates "Soul Men," the new comedy that marks not only one of the last screen appearances by the late Bernie Mac but also features a brief appearance by recently departed music legend Isaac Hayes. This contemporary riff on "The Sunshine Boys" generally manages to succeed anyway, thanks to the entertaining performances by Mac and co-star Samuel L. Jackson and its generous doses of raucous humor and sweet soul music.

Mac and Jackson play Floyd and Louis, who began their careers as backup singers for R&B legend Marcus Hooks (John Legend) -- think Gladys Knight's Pips -- before striking out on their own as a duo dubbed the Real Deal. Their partnership having ended years earlier thanks to professional failures and personal squabbles, they find themselves reluctantly reuniting after the death of their former leader when they are asked to perform in a tribute concert at the Apollo Theater. Since taking a flight from L.A. to New York would result in a movie with too short a running time, the two embark on a road trip across the country in a lime green 1971 Cadillac (inspired by Isaac Hayes' car, now housed in a Memphis museum), brushing up on their act along the way and getting into a series of comic misadventures.

 
Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone's script takes full advantage of its co-stars' particular talents for making profane language soar, and the raunchy dialogue and situations deliver a steady stream of dependable if decidedly lowbrow laughs. The funniest episode involves Floyd's hookup with a buxom fan (the ever-reliable Jennifer Coolidge) who shows this old dog some new tricks.There's an attempt to inject some emotion into the proceedings with the character of a young woman (Sharon Leal) who turns out to be the daughter of one of the two men, but the sentimentality generally takes a back seat to the silliness.

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www.depressioncell.com  THE BRAINS of people with depression react more strongly when anticipating pain and also show altered function in the part of the brain that controls pain sensitivity compared with people without depression, research published this morning suggests.

Doctors at the University of California in San Diego, in the United States, carried out brain scans on two groups of young adults.Some 15 people with an average age of 24.5 years with major depressive disorder were compared with a small group of similar age and educational attainment who did not have depression.

Both groups underwent functional MRI scanning while their arms were exposed to painful levels of heat.Visual cues were used to signal the imminent application of heat.
Patients with depression also completed a questionnaire designed to assess their tendencies to magnify, ruminate over or feel helpless in the face of pain.

Compared with the control group, patients who suffered from depression showed increased activation in a part of the brain known as the right amygdala during the anticipation of painful stimuli.This part of the brain also "lit up" during the painful experience, and other parts of the brain responsible for adjusting pain sensitivity showed reduced activation, according to the researchers.

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