Does Drinking Ice Water Burn Calories?

Hydration, maybe; weight loss, doubtful.

Hangover Helpers

You can fix the headache and wooziness, but you can’t take back what you said to your Aunt Mavis.

Bad Expensive Tea

This week’s mission: a fruit-flavored party drink and classy tea bags.

Death by Dinner

Ten ways people died from food.

Quince Turnovers

Orange flower water is an intoxicatingly aromatic infusion of–you guessed it–orange blossoms in water.

(Formatted with All Pictures here: http://exilekiss.blogspot.com/2008/11/fiery-intoxicating-spice-market-of.html) I was first introduced to Al-Watan about two years ago, by a good Pakistani friend of mine. We had been talking...

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There is a condition called "water intoxication" that some athletes — like runners — experience. What happens is that the vast quantities of water they drink flush electrolytes out of the system. Coma or death are...

Poster formerly known as D-NY Got a small container of Orange Blossom Water at Sahadis and am now wondering what to do with it. Any ideas welcome, especially drink recipes. One poster recommended putting some on a citrus salad w/...

Are you using a rice cooker? If you are, here’s a good rule of thumb. Add however much rice you want to cook and then add enough water until when you insert your index finger onto the top of the rice, the water level just...

A caffeine addict will do anything to get his fix—even make coffee with ragged old underwear.

rworange is excited about newly-opened Saffron 685, which serves stupendous tasties like Moroccan spiced hot cocoa (with cardamom) and french fries with saffron or balsamic aioli.

One of the better mixologists around is John at Cuchi Cuchi’s. Takes the trouble to muddle fresh fruit into his blueberry, strawberry-basil and watermelon martinis. Then there’s Ken Oringer’s (nonalcoholic, but...

of water. I don’t drink beer at the park, preferring the more legally risky but cost-effective strategy of intoxicating myself in the parking lot. And If I must consume sausage, I skip the flaccidly overrated Dodger Dog and...