Food and Drink

Cell phones with built-in breathalyzers [http://www.akihabaranews.com//en/news-10535-LG%27s+phone+with+breath+analyzer.html] .

> Research at Oregon State University shows that beer contains a micronutrient that inhibits cancer-causing enzymes [http://www.thedrunk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=888].

Joe at Chesterton and Friends ran a novel search at Google Print: He looked for "beer" in Hilaire Belloc's The Path to Rome [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/]. Pretty good results, a Top Ten List of sorts. But if you search "wine," you get 81

Wow, drinking news has been rather "dry" this week. This is the best I could do. In case you have a 25-year-old six-pack lying around [http://www.bidtrendz.com/collectible/archives/2005/11/01/billy-beer-6-pack/]: > A reader asks what an unopened six pack of Billy Beeer might

> After more than a decade of effort and a year of anticipation, Mars Inc. is finally rolling into stores with what it says is a healthy new sweet: a line of chocolate bars and chocolate-covered almonds. . . > [I]t is the glob of granola, rice and flavanol-filled cocoa powder

Lighten up, Connecticut. > A constitutional battle is brewing over a holiday beer that state officials are trying to ban because they say its label might entice children to drink. > The state believes it would be really awful for kids to see the label on the British import Seriously

You get paid money for that? Frat boys will be lining up for miles. > A Japanese artist has been paid £5,000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam. > The performance, at an arts centre in Cardiff,

Cooking with Beer [http://www.beer100.com/cooking/index.html].

> The newest buzz beverage in the U.S. is sake, the centuries-old traditional rice wine from Japan. > This year's Joy of Sake, the largest tasting event outside of the beverage's home country, was packed at its three stops: Honolulu, San Francisco and New York.