Friday, March 19, 2010

Lifestyles

Food

Polenta: Italian substitute for potatoes

Chef Dez
On Cooking

If, at the present moment, you have cornmeal in your pantry, it is probably the residual ingredient from a cornbread recipe you once tried.
Although cornmeal is very versatile, and a staple in every Italian kitchen, here in Canada I find it’s not very popular.
Not only is it the basic component of cornbread, but it also is used to create polenta.

Entertainment

4 years in the making, Discovery series ’Life’ focuses on survival

NEW YORK — The theme of the 11-part Discovery Channel series “Life” is as simple as the title sounds: the fascinating things creatures large and small do to stay alive.
That’s the only thing simple about it.