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    Anthony Bourdain vs Alice Waters

    I watched the San Francisco show of No Reservation with Anthony Bourdain and thought what’s with Tony’s dis on Alice Waters. In the intro of the show Alice Water's restaurant Chez Panisse, is shown, but Bourdain does...

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    A Glass Half-Full

    Throw down a buck for your free tap water in honor of World Water Day.

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    non-plastic, large water containers

    . Where I work, also has had their share of boil orders, so I don’t trust the tap water in either place. I currently use the stainless steel smaller water bottles, but the problem is, I’m filling them from either the...

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    "Water Sommelier"...?! Article in today's Toronto Star

    of Alice Waters, of Chez Panisse fame, who no longer serves bottled water in her restaurants. Filtered tap water, both still and carbonated, is all that’s available. She has actually installed a machine on the premises that...

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    Bottled Water Waste of Money - Unhealthy Too

    Same here. No place I’ve lived yet in NYC has had tap water that tasted good enough to drink or came out of the faucet completely clear. I use a Brita filter just to make my tap water palatable. It may be perfectly safe,...

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    NY Water Suddenly Tastes of Chlorine Is It the Republicans ?

    I started noticing yesterday that the tap water I’ve been served in restaurants has been tasting of chlorine. A chlorine taste in my experience is typical of August when the reservoirs are low and there has been a drought...

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    Wouldn't water softener effect the taste?

    on clothing and porcelain or tile surfaces. It also interferes with soap sudsing. So the way we deal with it is to have a water softener hooked up to our water supply, feeding all the taps, hot and cold, in the house. We have one...

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    Bottled water: What brand do you like?

    " if it is processed by RO/DI as done by Arrowhead, Sparkletts and most large reputable companies.   Most home filters can filter out some of the bad elements in tap water, but none can come close to bottled water....

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    new vitamin water 10: weird-tasting

    tell you. In Los Angeles we have the best tasting water in the world, but people buy lots of bottled or filtered water. Why don’t they bottle Los Angeles tap water?........because it doesn’t sound sexy. Not your...

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    Instant Hot Water Dispenser Worth It?

    to reach the tap in my kitchen. So it might save water. Although, we don’t drink a lot of tea or hot beverages.

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    Help me pep up my water.

    Serve yourself water like you would a tail: Get out your prettiest glass pitcher and fill it with filtered water, freshly-made ice, and citrus slices. Pour into your good glasses. Keep the pitcher on your kitchen counter and...

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    Water Cooler / Dispenser? [Moved from Not About Food board]

    . We put in two PurLogix coolers in my office and haven’t had any problems yet. We just did sediment and carbon filters (soft tap water here) to get rid of any big particles and to get out the chlorine. Other than occasional...

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    Sick of the restaurant bottled water ripoff. Finally, someone is doing something about it

    All Angelo charged us $5 for filtered tap water. That still makes me mad...

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    "Flat or sparkling water for the table?"

    smells when it comes out of the tap. I can hardly describe taking a shower in water that stinks. Britta/PUR filters are necessary here. And I only make ice cubes out of the filtered water.

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    Lunch at Thuet- not given option of ice water [moved from Ontario board]

    who can afford bottled drinks it, even at home. And in some places it’s because you must – because the tap water is not safe. But Toronto tap water is eminently drinkable. (Full disclosure: our home drinking water is...

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