When something calls for a casual warm weather celebration at our house, that usually means whipping up a pitcher of icy cold margaritas. Once the notion of having them comes up someone–usually one of the real margarita junkies, i.e., me, our son Ted, or one of our daughters-in-law, Jamye or Katharine–starts what’s become an Eades family tradition, the margarita chant. To a conga line rhythm, complete with conga choreography and maraca percussion on the ‘TA’ if available, it goes something like this:

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For my birthday last year, Mike took me to New York City to see a pair of performances at the Met and, on the day itself, to eat at the downtown location of Les Halles, the fabulous French brasserie founded by celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. I’ve wanted to go there since my thoughtful husband gifted me with a copy of Mr. Bourdain’s hilarious (and well-written) cookbook, The Les Halles Cookbook. I laughed until the tears rolled down my cheeks as Mike read aloud the descriptive text of how to properly prepare Cote de Boeuf.

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Mike posted this article today among the “In The News” bits: Potassium Salt Substitute Is Good for the Heart. Once again, the day’s headlines trumpet ground-breaking nutritional news, hot off the press, so new, so revolutionary, and so cutting-edge…at least it was when we wrote about it in the LifePlan 6 years ago and, before that, in Protein Power 10 years ago. Actually, even farther back, Mike advocated switching to potassium based salt substitutes in Thin So Fast, 16 years ago.

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Back at the time of WWII, families on the homefront were encouraged to plant a victory garden to provide for their own tables to leave more nutrition resources available for the men and women fighting the war. Everyone with even the tiniest square of backyard could plant greens and vegetables to help out.

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I knew it! This article appeared today that gives me yet another reason to enjoy my daily cups of java: Coffee may cut alcohol liver damage.

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Yesterday, at my neighborhood grocery store in our sleepy little town up in the Sierra Nevadas, I saw a great new product: Lipton Green Tea to Go. We’d seen a product similar to it at the natural foods expo a year or two ago and I fell in love with idea. I’ve been disappointed, however, because despite their obvious appeal, they hadn’t turned up on the retailers’ shelves anywhere I’ve looked.

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One of the In The News items that Mike put on our homepage got my attention enough to merit a click. The article focused on a newly reported study showing that eating fewer calories will make a rat (and possibly by extension, a human) live longer. On its face, this is a real dog bites man story, since it’s been known for eons that caloric restriction in rats, monkeys, and even in humans will extend lifespan. The news, however, is that instead of the extreme 40% reduction of calories many of the early trials adopted–a Spartan regimen that makes even rats and monkeys depressed–the reduction of this study was modest. Reducing the rats’ intake by only 8% of total calories increased their longevity.

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Today while I was cooling my heels waiting to get my hair cut and highlighted at the salon, I picked up a copy of Oprah’s magazine. Sometimes, I come prepared with a stack of medical papers or a good book and invariably my stylist is running ahead of schedule and gets me right in. Today, I took nothing and had the usual choice of salon mags: recent issues of People, US, Oprah, Vogue and an ancient and dog-earred Travel and Leisure (which issue I’ve now read thrice). Although I do not subscribe to any of these periodicals, except T&L, I must confess that I do on occasion riffle through them at the salon…just to keep up on the latest breaking news, of course. Granted, the news in them is all about Brangelina or what my beloved Johnny Depp wore on the red carpet, but it’s something to pass the time while sniffing the hair spray.

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Take note of the new set of side bar ads on my blog: Colon Cleansing and Vegetarian entries. What did I tell you? Took them a couple of days, though.

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I got a missive from a reader the other day wondering why on earth an ad for a militant vegetarian dot com appeared on my blog. Good question, since this site and our respective philosophies of eating aren’t particularly aligned.

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