Cupcake Cruisin’

Chances are if you put cupcakes and champagne on a cruise ship, people are going to flock. The ladies of Flirty Cupcakes and Shoreline Sightseeing hosted the first ever “Cupcake Cruise” on Chicago’s Lake Michigan on Tuesday night. Cupcake and champagne lovers couldn’t pass up the $30 ticket to enjoy flutes of bubbly, a box of four “Minis” and an hour long boat cruise on this balmy August night. Posting a schedule each day on Facebook and Twitter , the traveling cupcake truck keeps the public updated on where it will be and when. Since it got on the road in May, Flirty Cupcakes have become somewhat of a hunted treasure in the area.

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Food, wine, music.. and stars

If you are going to be near Faenza [ Emilia-Romagna ] on Tuesday or Wednesday night you have a chance to taste local food and wine whilst listening to music at the Torre di Oriolo dei Fichi park.

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Gluten-Free Tuesday: Brownies

From Recipes [ Photograph: Elizabeth Barbone ] Brownies, like most baked goods, seem to inspire lively debate. Cakey or fudgy? Iced or plain? With nuts or without? My feelings? As long as it’s a brownie, please pass it to me! I love them all.* I even love the pale cousin of the brownie, the blondie. But today I want to talk about fudgy brownies. My recipe makes a 9-by-13-inch pan of fudgy, gluten-free brownies with a thin, crackled top. (This crisp layer comes from the granulated sugar.) Since no baking soda or baking powder is present, the brownies get a slight lift from creaming the butter and sugar. However, this lift is really slight, and although the brownies will puff up in the oven, they sink down to a dense, fudgy texture as they cool. For this recipe, I use cocoa powder and not melted chocolate. After many tests, I found that the added step of having to melt chocolate just didn’t add enough of a “chocolate wow!” to the baked brownies to warrant using it. Either natural or Dutch-process cocoa powder works well in this recipe. The brownie in the photo was made using Dutch-process cocoa. …

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From Milan to Shanghai by van – driverless

Photo courtesy of Vislab Two Piaggio Porter driverless vans left Milan on Tuesday on an epic journey which will take them through Moscow, Siberia, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert to Shanghai, reports the Telegraph. The vans, powered by electric engines and equipped with state-of-the-art computer technology, have solar panels in their roofs to power the computers.

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First Look at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans

It may still be early in the week for some, but the cocktail community has been running on a 24-hour schedule since Monday night. This week, the annual Tales of the Cocktail event takes place in New Orleans, and while today is the official opening day, many people (myself included) came to town and got started early. One of the central topics that comes up every year, whether as a seminar presentation or as a recurring question from many attendees, is, “What kind of new things are we going to see in the next year in the realm of spirits and cocktails?” Answers to that question will become more obvious over the next several days, but early-arriving participants got a head start on discovering what’s new at an unofficial event on Tuesday afternoon, called simply the Tales Tuesday Tasting. While most official events are rigorously scheduled and managed, the Tuesday tasting was more wiki: at a designated time, in a designated place, participants were invited to bring a bottle of something interesting, put it on the bar, then join everyone else in tasting through the assembled mass of booze. For some people this meant bringing along novel spirits or interesting liqueurs obtained while traveling, while for others (mainly small distillers or representatives from independent importers)…

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Gluten-Free Tuesday: One Bowl Chocolate Cake

From Recipes Elizabeth Barbone of GlutenFreeBaking.com joins us every other Tuesday with a gluten-free recipe. Today … CHOCOLATE! —The Mgmt. [ Photographs: Elizabeth Barbone ] I grew up eating cake made from mixes. Of all the baked goods that came from my mother’s kitchen, cake was the only one not made from scratch. When I was a student at the Culinary Institute of America, I couldn’t wait to learn how to make a real cake. Boy, was I disappointed. Don’t get me wrong: Sponge, two-stage, and all other forms of cake are lovely. It’s just when I think of cake, I don’t think, “Hey! A sponge cake soaked with simple syrup would really hit the spot!” I crave the light, moist texture that Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines fed me growing up. Not only do I prefer the texture of boxed cake, I also love the ease. Open a box, dump in a few ingredients and in two minutes you have batter. (I’ve often joked that I am not just a gluten-free baker, I am also a lazy baker.) Would it …

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California Mayor Charged with Stealing Industrial Mixer for Homemade Pizza

From Slice [ Photograph: L.A. Times ] Sounds like this guy is a real pizza obsessive . From the L.A. Times : Hawthorne Mayor Larry Guidi, who had led the city for nearly two decades, was charged Tuesday in connection with stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district because he allegedly needed more dough for his home pizza oven. We’d reach out to him for a Q&A for My Pizza Oven , but somehow I don’t think he’d grant our request. [via The Eater ]

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Joan Jett to New Yorkers: Go Vegetarian

[Jett hanging with a VSK newsstand] What Would Joan Jett Do (WWJJD–get it)? Well, last Tuesday what Jett did was help launch PETA’s Vegetarian Starter Kit (VSK) “blitz” of Manhattan in which thousands of VSKs were to be stocked at 30 stand-alone newsstands throughout the city. PETA rep Amanda Schinke explained that they decided to start offering VSKs at newsstands after the group filled more than 400,000 requests for the brochures in 2009 alone. There are also stands in Chicago and DC; those of you not lucky enough to live in any of these veg-awesome cities can order a free copy on PETA’s site . Joan Jett has been veg for 20 years and has done a “vegetarian testimonial” for PETA as well as helping out Farm Sanctuary in the past (check out the amazing photos of her visit to the farm). When I asked Jett why she decided to do the launch for PETA, she explained that she liked the organization because it’s “intense” and it “doesn’t stop.” Explaining that you “can’t always do things with smiles and kisses,” it was clear that Jett approved of this grassroots approach to spreading the veg message (though this event featured more polite conversation than in-your-face ranting). Joan engaging a passerby Accompanying Jett was Kenny Laguna , her …

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Abortion pill arrives in Italy

The RU486 abortion pill was used in a non-experimental way for the first time in Italy on Tuesday amid much controversy.

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Tuesday Tips from Talk

VIEW SLIDESHOW: Tuesday Tips from Talk If you spend any time in the SE Talk section, you know that it’s full of great advice and tips. (And if you don’t spend time there, what are you waiting for , huh?) Here, we’re trying out a new roundup of useful tips from the week. Blast the trumpets for the debut of Tuesday Tips from Talk.

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