Here’s proof a fast-food favourite can get a nutritious makeover with fresh vegetables, milk and lean chicken breast. It’s a healthy meal to please take-out food fans.
Chicken Noodle Bowl
LONDON – Want a virtual bite of what you’ll eat before ordering from the menu?
An Asian-themed restaurant in London’s theatre district is giving its customers just that, projecting images of dragon rolls, black cod and other dishes directly onto diners’ plates.
If you’re lucky, you’ve never known a world without olive oil or a time when Parmesan cheese only came in green cans.
But there was such a world. Once stigmatized as the cuisine of “garlic eaters,” Italian food and its ingredients were almost impossible to find in America 40 years ago.
TORONTO – A design from Canadian label Smythe is getting a repeat wear from Kate as she dons the same blazer she was first seen in when she embarked on the royal tour.
Kate was spotted today wearing the navy blazer from the Toronto-based label of Andrea Lenczner and Christie Smythe. She wore the One-Button blazer atop a ruffle-front blouse and slim-fitting belted jeans accessorized with slingback espadrilles.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper took a back seat to his wife Laureen today as the two helped inaugurate one of her pet projects.
The Harpers cuddled kittens after cutting a ribbon to officially open Ottawa’s new Humane Society building.
It looks like Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and Kraft says it tastes just like the original. But a new ingredient is lurking inside this version of the family dinner staple – cauliflower.
Don’t tell the kids!
PARIS – Democracy has come to haute couture.
French couturier Frank Sorbier threw open the doors to this usually hermetically sealed world – populated exclusively by an elite cadre of fashion journalists, stylists and editors and the ever-shrinking handful of women who buy the wildly expensive made-to-measure garments – selling (gasp!) tickets to his fall-winter 2011-12 haute couture show on Wednesday.
Some late-blooming crocus varieties planted around the yard can transform autumn into a second spring, providing a welcome burst of colour as other flowers fade and the leaves begin to fall.
Nurseries generally label them “minor bulbs,” however, stocking only a few if any because there is so little demand.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – My first thought about Google Plus: “Here we go again.” After Google’s earlier attempts at social networking failed spectacularly, it was easy to scoff at this seeming Facebook wannabe.
Its “Picasa ultimatum” didn’t help much either. If you have an account with Picasa, Google’s photo-sharing service, the first thing Google asks is whether you’d want to share your Picasa photos. Say no, and you’re not allowed to sign up at all. That seemed unnecessarily harsh.
PARIS – Jean Paul Gaultier was the fox in the proverbial henhouse, serving up a feather-filled and plumage-plastered fall-winter 2011-12 haute couture collection on Wednesday.
Every conceivable bird was there. Rooster, ostrich, swan, turkey and pheasant feathers peeked out from the hemlines of trench coats and fluttered out from beneath the necklines of bustiers and other Gaultier staples. And even when they weren’t visible from the outside, the feathers were there on the inside, stuffing the puffer jackets and A-line skirts made from down-filled duvets.
Striped staircases and lavender walls? They’re not just for high-profile designers anymore.
Home-decorating TV shows and glossy shelter magazines have many homeowners embracing the bold, unexpected use of colour that cutting-edge designers love. But creative colour can be tricky. Three experts offer advice on doing it right.
TORONTO – The head of the Consumers Association of Canada says he’s shocked to see what a small proportion of dollars donated to the Canadian Cancer Society is going to research.
Bruce Cran was reacting to a media report showing that over the last decade, the share of Cancer Society revenues earmarked for research has continually shrunk while the proportion for fundraising efforts has grown dramatically.
LONDON – More than 30 years after the world’s first test-tube baby was born and despite modest advances, scientists are still struggling to dramatically improve the odds for infertile couples trying to have children.
Though new techniques have been introduced in recent years, in-vitro fertilization remains a costly, stressful process, with only about a 25 per cent chance of success in most cases.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Quick on the heels of Google’s launch of its latest social-networking venture, Facebook is rolling out video calls. It’s powered by Internet phone company Skype.
Facebook said Wednesday that it is also rolling out a group chat feature. Facebook users can now create instant group chats if they want to quickly message a small group of their friends.
MONTREAL – As Formula One cars reach staggering speeds, the technology used to track them moves even faster.
Everything from speed, of course, to every gear change and the pressure in each tire is recorded by the car’s multitude of sensors and streamed live to engineers on site or back at the team’s often far-away headquarters.
WASHINGTON – House Republicans in the United States are siding with food companies resisting the Obama administration’s efforts to pressure them to stop advertising junk food for children.
Some food companies say the government is going too far with guidelines proposed earlier this year by several government agencies. The voluntary guidelines would attempt to shield children from ads for sugary and fatty foods – think colourful characters on cereal boxes – on television, in stores and on the Internet. Companies would be urged to market foods to children ages two through 17 only if they contain specific healthy ingredients and are low in fats, sugars and sodium.
PARIS – Elie Saab has the formula down pat: Take miles of flowing silks and tulle, whip the fabrics into flattering, nip-waisted silhouettes and cover them with a ton of shimmering sequins and beads and you’ve got yourself a red carpet winner.
For Wednesday’s fall-winter 2012-12 couture collection, the Lebanese designer didn’t stray from the winning recipe that has helped him conquer red carpets worldwide. But then again, with gowns that look that good, why would he?
PARIS – Loaded with beads, rhinestones and sequins, couture is generally a weighty business. But Valentino kept it whisper-light with a fall-winter 2011-12 haute couture collection of sheer chemisier gowns that were about as substantial as a feather.
A light touch has become the signature of the label’s new design duo, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, who over the past two-and-a-half years have steered the label once known for its va-va-voom red carpet looks to an altogether airier place.
BERLIN – Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is opening its catwalk outside the city’s landmark Brandenburg Gate with more than 50 shows presenting spring/summer collections for 2012.
The Berlin event, which runs from Wednesday through to Saturday, is seen as a show where young designers who often struggle to get noticed in New York, Milan or Paris can highlight their clothes.
PARIS – Walking, Paris’ elite cadre of haute couture designers seems to have determined, is out – at least for the handful of women wealthy enough to fork out the price of a car for a single dress.
Judging from the hobbling looks on display Tuesday at Chanel and Giorgio Armani Prive’s fall-winter 2011-12 haute couture displays, women rich enough to afford four-to-five-figure ensembles should never need suffer the injustice of actually having to walk.
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