If you thought that the grocery store was the only place you'd ever find Nestlé products, think again. As of last week they're on the cosmetic counters at Neiman Marcus.
The food-making giant launched the Glowelle brand, their entry into the nascent beauty nutraceutical industry. While nutraceuticals specifically for the beauty market have been popular in Japan for the last few years, that use is virtually unknown in the US.
Beauty nutraceuticals are generally drinks or juices that are aimed at some beauty issue, such as skin appearance. Drink the product and your skin will be glowing, or that's the idea. Nestle's Glowelle comes in two flavors: natural jasmine and natural pomegranate lychee.
As the holidays approach, we'll certainly be doing our fair share of entertaining, whether it's a casual get together of friends on a Saturday afternoon watching football, a simple cocktail party, or a full-blown sit down dinner. In any case, you're going to need the right stuff to set your table (and I don't mean a tablescape) -- linens, plates, cups, and flatware.
We'll cover your indoor tailgating another day, but if you are throwing a luxurious sit-down dinner party, Neiman Marcus has some fabulous ideas for setting your table. They've gotten together with four top designers who have picked things to set tables in their particular style. There's master of knits and resort-wear St. John, Valentino, Jay Strongwater, and my personal favorite, Nanette Lepore, who sets the table with rich crumpled linens and Baroque-inspired dinnerware.
Sure, we can't help but think of heavy stockpots simmering with stews and deep dark caramelized root vegetables braising in wine-stained casseroles when the month of October hits. It's autumn, right?
Ah, but October is also National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and to show your support for the cause, think pink! Sure, we know all about wearing the little looped pink ribbon, but you can go even further to show your support in the kitchen. We've already started the morning with the Sip for the Cure line of teas from the Republic of Tea, and as we come across more of them, we'll point you to cool, pretty, delicious pink things that are on sale specifically to support breast cancer research and awareness.
These pots and pans are covered with pink porcelain enamel and are available from Neiman Marcus for $140 for the set. Neiman Marcus has a whole area of their online Home catalog dedicated to the pink ribbon products, too.
The classic wedge shape of a pie server and its rectangular counterpart, the cake server, rarely change much in appearance from model to model and brand to brand. Like many kitchen tools, they are designed for function and not to have a stylish edge. For anyone interested in fashion, this fact makes servers boring because the designs of almost every other piece of cookware and tableware, including plates, measuring cups and appliances, change from year to year, if not season to season like designer apparel does. Those fashion-conscious individuals, who want to serve their cake and eat it too, will love the Shoe/Handbag Server Set. The sliver plated pieces are shaped like a high-heeled shoe and a handbag, giving a version fashionable look to a functional tool.
Peeps and grocery-store
chocolate candies are all well and good, but the end of Lent calls for
something of a splurge. Fortunately, the purveyors of fine chocolate and other goodies are more than happy to oblige
the impulse to celebrate the season. Here at Slashfood, we are happy to indulge whenever the opportunity arises, but
these luxury Easter chocolates are really ideal for a special occasion.
Harry and David may not be the "go-to" chocolatier for some, but their Chocolate
Praline Eggs are somehow shaped inside a colorful, real eggshell and need to be broken out before eating. A half
dozen eggs are $29.99.
Robert L. Strohecker'sAssorted
Rabbits are chocolate bunnies designed to have three different flavors of filling inside different parts of the
rabbit: toasted almond ears, an almond butter crunch head, and a caramel pecan body. Available in both milk and
dark chocolate, this is one bunny you won’t get bored with. They are $30.95 a pair.
Neiman Marcus'Chocolate
Easter Bunny is hand poured, hand decorated and hand wrapped. At nearly 5-pounds, it is one very big, but festive,
bunny. Use it as a centerpiece, then serve it for dessert. Each bunny is $99.
I can sort-of understand the $99
chocolate bunny for sale on the Neiman Marcus special
occasion desserts website. Though I'm not completely sure what "semi-solid" means, the bunny is 19-inches
high and weighs almost 5 pounds. And $35 for egg-shaped
chocolate chicks is not entirely unreasonable because they have been painstakingly hand-decorated with colored
chocolate. I have to draw the line on exorbitantly priced desserts somewhere, though, and the set of
three chocolate eggs filled with marshmallows, graham cracker and caramel does not seem worth the $80 price tag,
especially considering the additional $17 shipping fee. The most unreasonable dessert is a six-inch
square cheesecake, wrapped in chocolate "paper" to look like a present, that retails for $190 plus $27 for
shipping. Did I mention that the cake only serves 6 people?
The turkey turned out perfectly, but the gravy's a different story. Avoid botching the one recipe that guests pour over their entire Thanksgiving plates with these quick fixes.
If you thought that the grocery store was the only place you'd ever find Nestlé products, think again. As of last week they're on the cosmetic counters at Neiman Marcus.
As the holidays approach, we'll certainly be doing our fair share of entertaining, whether it's a casual get together of friends on a Saturday afternoon watching football, a simple cocktail party, or a full-blown sit down dinner. In any case, you're going to need the right stuff to set your table (and I don't mean a tablescape) -- linens, plates, cups, and flatware.
Sure, we can't help but think of heavy stockpots simmering with stews and deep dark caramelized root vegetables braising in wine-stained casseroles when the month of October hits. It's autumn, right?
The classic wedge shape of a pie server and its rectangular counterpart, the cake server, rarely change much in appearance from model to model and brand to brand. Like many kitchen tools, they are designed for function and not to have a stylish edge. For anyone interested in fashion, this fact makes servers boring because the designs of almost every other piece of cookware and tableware, including plates, measuring cups and appliances, change from year to year, if not season to season like designer apparel does. Those fashion-conscious individuals, who want to serve their cake and eat it too, will love the 
I can sort-of understand the 
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