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Coast Restaurant & Bar wants to know what YOU would do if you had Coast all to yourself for one, extraordinary evening! “What Would You Do at Coast For a Night?” is a contest the Canary Hotel is hosting through June 30th, where participants can describe what their ultimate evening or party plans for Coast would entail. Participants can send entries to contest@etchotels.com. One lucky winner will receive dinner for two at Coast!

Will you plan an extravagant dinner party for 100 guests? Maybe an intimate candlelight dinner for two is more your style? Perhaps your ideal night includes 10 of your closest friends sitting around the table enjoying a fabulous dinner and fine wine. Plan the ultimate soiree at Coast, and tell us about it!

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The Coney Island Drive Inn, a restaurant in Brooksville, Florida, has been selling 12-inch hot dogs -- the restaurant calls them "footlongs" -- for more than 40 years. Its Web site is gotfootlongs.com.

Last week, the restaurant got a letter from a lawyer representing Subway, which, as you may have heard, sells 12-inch sandwiches for five bucks.

After explaining that Subway "has applied for the trademark FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches," the letter says:

You are hereby put on notice to cease and desist from using FOOTLONG (TM) association with sandwiches. You must immediately remove all references to FOOTLONG (TM) in association with sandwiches.

(The full letter is online here.)

Labels: Lawsuit, restaurants, Subway, trademarks

Montclair Meat Co., Inc., a Montclair, Calif., establishment is recalling approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The products subject to recall include:

• Various pound packages of "MONTCLAIR MEAT CO. GROUND BEEF"
• Various pound packages of "MONTCLAIR MEAT CO. ALL BEEF PATTIES"

Labels: Beef, California, e. coli, food safety, Ground Beef, meat, Recalls, Senate, USDA

A chicken squats in a shed the size of a football pitch somewhere in the outback of Brazil. And it's not alone.

One of tens of thousands, each bird is allowed the floor space equivalent to a sheet of A4 paper and will live for just 40 days before it hits its genetically-engineered slaughter weight. That's if it doesn't perish along the way.

Five per cent or so will be unable to cope with the conditions and die even before then.

Those that survive will be plucked and butchered in an industrial process the like of which this planet has never before seen.

Every year billions of chickens will live and die in this way. Of course, South America is a long way away. But your local McDonald's is not. And that is where a significant proportion of this intensively reared meat will eventually end up.

McChicken Sandwich: Much of McDonalds' poultry comes from Brazil, where the animals live in cramped conditions

Of all the chicken churned out by the fast-food chain - the equivalent of 30 million birds a year - 60 per cent is imported frozen from Brazil. A further nine per cent comes from Thailand and 30 per cent from Holland- The Daily Mail

Labels: Brazil, chicken, globalization, Holland, McDonalds, Thailand

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There is a HUGE "for lease" sign hanging from the second floor of the Zia Cafe. (I noticed while attending the Farmer's Market this afternoon...)

Another casualty of the "sucky" economy?

Where will I go for my sopapillas?

Labels: New Mexican, Restaurant, Santa Barbara, State Street, Zia Cafe

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Strange, alien looking on the outside...but deliciously creamy on the inside. At the Farmer's markets...try one...or two!

Yum!

Labels: Cherimoya, Farmer's Markets, Flickr, fruit

Labels: Drive-In, Goleta, Santa Barbara, Theater

Labels: Carpinteria, Farms, Jams, Organic, picnic, Strawberries

The Jesusita Fire began it's rampage.

Labels: disaster, Fires, Jesusita, Santa Barbara, Wildfires

Raise a Margarita Cupcake in celebration!

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