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My grandfather, who died in 2001 at the age of 91, used to proudly announce that he had been subscribing to the New Yorker since its inception in 1925. Whether or not that tidbit was exactly true, that magazine lost a loyal customer when he died, as he did subscribe as long as I knew him (and I was nearly 22 when he made his exit). I used to love to sort through the stacks of back issues that lived on the coffee table in my grandparents' den whenever we visited them, for the old food issues as well as any that featured fiction from authors I knew.

The folks at the New Yorker have put together a slide show of 21 covers that feature food, drink and dining that range from 1925 all the way up to September 2007. It's an interesting thing to take a peek at, because it gives you a glimpse at how our cultural perspective on food has shifted.

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I have to say that I am fed up with all the energy drinks crowding the market. Personally I don't need energy, I have too much as it is, and they give me the jitters. What I want to do is relax! Part of my plan to relax is moving to a less stressful environment surrounded by beauty and nature, where life is a bit slower. I can always visit the big city for work or play, but don't have to live there. The other thing I can do is drink a Blue Cow Relaxation Drink, if I can find any near me. Or I could order it online direct from the company.

The company says that Blue Cow is made with "Chamomile, Hops, Passion Flower, Hawthorne Berry, Lemon Balm and most importantly, and Suntheanine®." Suntheanine® is a brand of pure L-Theanine, it is "the primary amino acid found in green tea" and this green tea derivative "helps relax without creating drowsiness."

Well the interesting ingredient list does have several herbs that do in fact help you to relax. Chamomile tea has been used for millenia to calm you down, as have the other ingredients. Although I have found that Hops can give you some pretty vivid dreams at night. The list of things it doesn't contain is interesting as well: zero calories, zero caffeine, zero carbs, and zero sodium.

It isn't really fair to call this review a "taste test," because I have basically resigned to the fact that any energy drink, no matter who makes it, tastes horrible. Even Diet Coke, which could be considered an energy drink if you take into account the caffeine, is an energy drink, and the taste is starting to wear on me. A lot. That's what two to three cans of soda a day will do to you. It wears you down.

G Pure Energy comes from Norwegian Ole Sandberg, the maker of high end water, Voss. If you didnt' know that intellectually, you'd certainly be able to sense it from the bottle's design. The bottle, like Voss' bottle, is made of glass, and is topped with the signature large silver screw-on top. This bottle, however, has a curve, which could be interepreted and sexy and gorgeous, or maybe a little scary -- you know, like someone drank a little too much G Pure Energy and gripped the bottle too hard. (And that with the bottle's even being glass!)