Archive for August, 2010

Restaurant, artist combine passions for fundraising

Saturday, 08 August 2010

By Eric Feber

The Virginian-Pilot

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A passion for art, fine wine and helping veterans – spurred by a love of chocolate – has led to Sundays inaugural “Home” art fundraiser.

From 1 to 5 p.m. Passion the Restaurant, at 1036 Volvo P kw y., will host a wine and art fundraiser (more…)


Menopause and Headaches

Tuesday, 08 August 2010

During the mid-life phenomenon known as menopause, changes in headache type, duration and intensity are more common. Throbbing, explosive headaches can pain the sides of your head, and your energy become totally depleted. The slightest opening of an eye can cause a ripple of pain to burst on one side of your fragile head, leaving you in physical ruin. Menopause is known to heighten such uncomfortable, sometimes unbearable symptoms.
Menopause and headache changes, specifically, migraine headaches (more…)


Chocolate coming to Old World.

Tuesday, 08 August 2010

Famous navigator Christopher Columbus took some cocoa beans to show Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, but it was Spanish monks who introduced it to Europe more broadly. Not until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was chocolate imported to Europe, where it rapidly became a recognized favorite. The first (more…)


All Natural Beeswax for Lip Balm

Sunday, 08 August 2010

Pure, natural and free of toxin lip balms or lip moisturizers are pretty much in-demand nowadays.  While most of us would rather choose a brand from our favorite drug stores or beauty supply shops, making one is actually doable.
The following are materials and ingredients needed for a beeswax lip balm: 1 teaspoon honey; 3 teaspoon beeswax; 4 teaspoon cocoa butter; 5 teaspoon sweet almond oil; 2 teaspoon lanolin; natural fragrance; 1 Pyrex measuring cup and 1 teaspoon.
All the above mentioned (more…)


The secretive industries of our alleyways

Wednesday, 08 August 2010

HIDDEN away amid the shops and parks, the tourist hotspots and the provincial streets of Tunbridge Wells, local factories are busy pumping out millions of pounds worth of goods which stream out across the world.

At the far end of Camden Road, up to Pounds 150,000 of top-class chocolates are produced every week for sale in boutique shops in London and New York.

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