Just 375 square feet, the walk-up cafe will offer a pared down menu including breakfast selections such as the Greek Link Sausage Pita with potatoes, grilled onions and peppers and a sunny side up egg ($3.95) and Greek yogurt and honey ($3). Soup, traditional appetizers (hummus, tabuli salad), salads and pita sandwiches (among them souvlaki and chicken kebab) round out the menu. Beer, wine and Nikorita’s are available, as well as soft drinks.

I’m a vegetable lover. I eat vegetables at least three times a day: sautéed chard stirred into scrambled eggs for breakfast, a big garden-fresh salad for lunch and grilled corn and steamed potatoes as side dishes with dinners in the summer. I don’t have much trouble eating enough vegetables, but I know I’m the exception, not the rule.

Last month, at Tales of the Cocktail, a week-long convention for the spirits industry in New Orleans, Eben Freeman, best known as the creator of smoked Coke and “solid” cocktails at the now-defunct Tailor in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood, gave a seminar on protecting one’s intellectual property as a bartender. The panelists, Sheila Morrison from the Trademark Office, and Riley Lagesen, who has a private business law practice with a niche focus on the restaurant industry, discussed the nature of a bartender’s creative work and who is allowed to use it. After the seminar, I spoke to Freeman, who admitted he came up with the idea for the talk after becoming fed up with other bartenders and establishments taking credit for and profiting from his recipes and techniques. (Fat washing, for example, the process by which a spirit can be infused with, say, bacon, was pioneered in part by Freeman, yet is often attributed to others.) “Someone needs to get sued … to set a precedent,” he told me.

Burger King Holdings Inc., the nation’s perennially No. 2 hamburger chain, said Thursday that it is selling itself to little-known private equity firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $3.26 billion.

Its shares soared to an 18-month high.

Thursday’s $24-per-share tender offer comes after a day of speculation about the deal that sent shares up more than 15 percent. The offer is a nearly 46 percent premium over the company’s stock price before rumors of a buyout began circulating.

In recent weeks, a series of CNN articles have appeared purporting to get to the bottom of male infidelity. “Men More Likely to Cheat on Women With Bigger Paychecks,” one headline informs us; yet in the body of the article we are told that the opposite is true as well: “A man who makes significantly more money than his girlfriend or wife is also more likely to cheat.”

I come from a small-ish town in Oklahoma where we’ve never met a vegetable we couldn’t fry and the only things more super-sized than our portions are the huge church complexes that alternate with fast-food restaurants along our roads.

So it maybe isn’t such a big surprise that by the time I graduated from high school, I weighed 260 pounds. My prom dress was a size 24, and my mother had to help me zip it up, a five-minute ordeal during which we grunted and cursed at one another.

You may not know this, but your bones play an important role in your overall health. They not only give the body a frame that lets you move, bones store minerals that are vital to the function of other life-sustaining systems.

According to the Office of the Surgeon General, an estimated 10 million Americans over age 50 have osteoporosis or “thinning of the bones,” while another 34 million are at risk. The National Osteoporosis Foundation says that approximately one in two women, and up to one in four men over age 50 will suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture in their remaining lifetime.

This weekend, elevate dinner at home by recreating a tasty takeout dish in the comfort of your own kitchen. Rather than reaching for the phone, roll up your sleeves and prepare an easy beef dish with exotic spices and a fun dipping sauce.

Chinese Beef Pot Stickers blend the classic flavors of ginger and soy sauce with savory, affordable lean ground beef – and with an umami-rich dipping sauce, your family and friends will be craving seconds.

HOUSTON – Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D., an associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), is one of 17 researchers to win a 2010 National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. The award supports scientists who propose revolutionary, high-impact approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

One in three first-time moms are now delivering their babies by Caesarean section, according to a new study.

We’ve all heard the expression, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” And for years, we’ve known that at least in spirit, it’s somewhat true. Fruits and vegetables are full of vitamins and nutritionists say they contain ingredients that can fight off certain illnesses.

Veggie Pals, a local community-based nonprofit organization in Houston, Texas, will host a train-the-trainer nutrition and physical activity workshop on Thursday, October 7, 2010 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center – 3601 South W.S. Young Drive – Killeen, TX 76541.

African-American race is a distinct risk factor for developing life-threatening blood clots after receiving a drug-coated stent, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
African-American race was the strongest predictor of clotting that occurs more than 30 days after implantation, researchers said.

Jennifer Konjoian was 10 years old when she put a plastic bag over her head. She remembers doing it impulsively, for no other reason than to get attention.

“Sleep is as important as diet and exercise to a healthy lifestyle,” says Dr. Craig Schwimmer, MPH, an otolaryngologist (an ear, nose, and throat doctor) and medical director of The Snoring Center in Dallas. “If you have to go through a couple of cups of coffee in the morning and a shower to wake up, then you’re not getting enough sleep.”

The poor health of African American boys and young adult males is a result of their environments and physical surroundings, according to a new report from the California Endowment.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today announced the first round of applicants accepted into the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program. Nearly 2,000 employers, representing large and small businesses, State and local governments, educational institutions, non profits, and unions have been accepted into the program and will begin to receive reimbursements for employee claims this fall.

The CNN Wire staff reports, “Fresh eggs being produced by farms at the heart of a massive recall are making their way to consumers via facilities that pasteurize the eggs, process them and rid them of any possible salmonella.”

Jones, a computer programmer in Allen Park, Michigan, quickly realized the messages weren’t from his boss — they were from his boss’ children who were hanging out at the office with their father for the day. As a joke, they’d gone into their dad’s AOL account and sent silly, innocent instant messages to everyone in the office, and none of the adults could understand the shortcuts and slang.

Researchers in New Zealand searched on the popular video site for the five leading, non-Chinese tobacco brands in the world: Marlboro, L&M, Benson and Hedges, Winston and Mild Seven, on YouTube. From the results, they selected the “most viewed” videos and analyzed the English language videos for content on how it seemed to frame tobacco (positive, negative, complex, unclear or neutral light).