Love to Spare

Love Challenge#2: Winners Announced Here!

Posted on 14. Apr, 2009 by Acooba.

Love Challenge #2 was directed at the men; 5 stepped up to the plate and answered the challenge: Ian, Roger, Albert, Gwynn, and Jeff. Thank you all for your responses, we enjoyed and appreciated your participation.
Before announcing the winners, I’d like to take a moment to share my thoughts on why this type of exercise [...]

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Chocolate @ the Feast Of Freedom

Posted on 09. Apr, 2009 by Acooba.

Millions of people around the world are commemorating Pesach, the Feast of Freedom, also known as Passover. When the Jews left Egypt in a hurry, they were unable to take time to leaven the bread before baking. In remembrance, during Passover, Jews voluntarily forgo leavened bread and other wheat products; other grains and grain by-products, [...]

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Chocolate and Me

Posted on 08. Apr, 2009 by Acooba.

My love affair with chocolate began relatively late - in my early teenage years. As a young girl growing up in Guyana, South America, I simply had little access to chocolate. Although cocoa trees are plentiful in the rainforest which covers 80% of the country, international trade rules prohibited our country from producing finished chocolate, [...]

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Glutamate: the G in MSG

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Acooba.

In the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the wicked queen feeds Snow White a poisoned apple. Even though the apple contains poison, the evil queen uses some type of magic to make the apple appear not only fresh and wholesome, but even irresistible. When Snow White is later tricked into biting the [...]

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Black Marriage Day

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by Acooba.

The waning of March signals 2 things in our personal universe:

Spring is here; and,
It’s time for Black Marriage Day.

Black Marriage Day? What’s that? It’s a question we get a lot…usually accompanied by a bemused stare. This year we have a pre-emptive Black Marriage Day “Primer” to answer all the questions we usually get [...]

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