Results of Well-Fed Network's 2005 Food Blog Awards

From this post on Bloggers Blog (you know they're serious about blogging when the permalink URLs for their entries contain 5 instances of the word "blog"), the results of the 2005 Food Blog Awards. wickenden has a pretty handsome food blog himself, by the way (it's called Dinner At My House), and one of my favourite photography-related food blogs, Heidi Swanson's 101 Cookbooks, is woefully absent from this list (although their food blog winner looks to have been heavily inspired by 101 Cookbooks). However, I have no idea how to get included in the food blog network mentioned below, nor if the food blogs that won had to be part of their network.

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The winners of the 2005 Food Blog Awards have been announced. They were announced on the Well Fed Network, a recently launched network of food blogs. Here is a list of the winners.

Best Chef's Blog: Egg Beater

Best City Blog: David Lebovitz (Paris, France)

Best Blog Covering the Food Industry: The Food Whore

Best Blog Covering Wine, Beer or Spirits: Vinography

Best Food Blog - Humor: The Food Whore

Best Food Blog - Photography: Nordljus

Best Food Blog - Recipes: Chocolate & Zucchini

Best Food Blog - Restaurant Reviews: Becks and Posh

Best Food Blog - Theme: Gluten Free Girl

Best Food Blog - Writing: Chocolate & Zucchini

Best Group Food Blog: Too Many Chefs

Best Non Blogging Food Site: Epicurious

Best New Blog: Delicious Days

Best Post: Meat comes from Animals; Deal with it, or eat Vegetables - written by Barbara at Tigers & Strawberries

Best Overall Food Blog: Orangette

Top 30 Facts About Chuck Norris

My cousin Marc just sent me this link, and even though I'm not a huge Norris fan or anything, I thought that the writing was great. Very funny hyperbole -- I dug it. Here's the full list of Top 30 Facts About Chuck Norris, but my faves are below:

-- Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.
-- If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not Chuck Norris.
-- When Chuck Norris sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Chuck Norris has not had to pay taxes ever.
-- Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse -- horses are hung like Chuck Norris.
-- If Chuck Norris is late, time better slow the fuck down.
-- Chuck Norris uses a night light. Not because he is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Chuck Norris.
-- To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer. Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and aquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.
-- Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.

One other funny thing about this is that after reading the whole list, I found that the words "Chuck Norris" stopped making any sense. That ever happen to you when you read a certain word over and over and over again? I remember that happening for the first time in my childhood. It was like my first koan -- I contemplated a certain word so hard and for so long that its meaning seemed to disintegrate before my very eyes. As I recall, the first word that happened to with me was the word smile.

some notes on Ayurvedic info and principles

objectives:
1 - ID your dominant dosha
2 - balance your doshas through proper diet and exercise (i.e. hatha yoga)

fundamentals:
From Vasant Lad:

-- ayurveda is from the Sanskrit, meaning "Science of Life"
-- promotes proper balance in life through right thinking, right diet, right lifestyle
-- conceives of proper health in terms of health being order and disease being disorder; the goal is to bring the full body into balance and alignment, hence order, hence health
-- the physical universe is manifest in five elements: Space, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth; certain combinations of these elements result in the three essential qualities of vata, pitta, and kapha
-- the cause of disease is rooted in an imbalance between (i.e. a deficiency or excess in) vata, pitta, and kapha

vata
-- source elements: Space and Air
-- associated with movement: vata governs breathing, blinking, the circulatory system (pumping of the heart and working of the lungs) and all other physical movement associated with muscles and tissues
-- when in balance, vata produces creativity and flexibility
-- when out of balance vata produces anxiety and fear

pitta
-- source elements: Fire and Water
-- associated with the metabolic system: physical digestion, nutrition, metabolism, energy level and body temperature
-- when in balance, pitta produces understanding and intelligence
-- when out of balance, pitta produces anger, hatred,  and jealousy

kapha
-- source elements: Earth and Water
-- associated with the structural makeup of the body: bones, muscles, tendons, and the infrastructure of cells; also hydration, moisturization of the skin, and the immune system
-- when in balance, kapha expresses itself as love, calmness and forgiveness
-- when out of balance, kapha leads to attachment, greed, and excessive longing

Google searches and other resources:
-- ayurvedic diet vasant lad
-- ayurvedic diet robert svoboda
-- ayurvedic diet david frawley
-- doshas
-- Relationship between the 6 tastes and the doshas