Lately I have been more of a savory breakfast/brunch person, and especially in the summer, pancakes seem awfully heavy for a hot, late morning meal.
However, I could not stop staring at this stack of banana pancakes from one of my favorite LA food bloggers, Acme Instant Food. For some reason, the way they are plated and photographed breathlessly sigh "summer" to me (even though banana pancakes definitely sound like a fall breakfast). The pancakes are lazily laying all over each other as if just after a playful *ahem* "romp, glistening with syrup, and with coca nibs and pecans carelessly scattered all over. Makes me just want to drape myself on a chaise lounge by the pool.
Bolivian coca growers are urging the Coca-Cola Co. to eliminate the word "Coca" from the name of its popular soft drink because of the leaf's importance in that Andean nation's culture.
A small company in southern Colombia has recently started
manufacturing a carbonated soda made with the extract of coca, the stimulating shrub from which cocaine is made. The
company, Empresa Colombiana de la Coca, is owned and operated by a group of Nasa Indians, an indigenous people that
have used coca leaves for centuries. The soda, called Coca-Sek, has apparently won the approval of local tasters and
the "tea-like" flavor is supposedly somewhere between 7-Up and ginger ale, according to a 
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