| Bottled Water Boycotts: Back-to-the-Tap Movement Gains Momentum
From San Francisco to New York to Paris, city governments, high-class restaurants, schools, and religious groups are ditching bottled water in favor of what comes out of the faucet. With people no longer content to pay 1,000 times as much for bottled water, a product no better than water from the tap, a backlash against bottled water is growing. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which represents some 1,100 American cities, discussed at its June 2007 meeting the irony of purchasing bottled water for city employees and for city functions while at the same time touting the quality of municipal water. The group passed a resolution sponsored by Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, and R. T. Rybak of Minneapolis that called for the examination of bottled water's environmental impact.
The most influential Britons in America: 20-11
Telegraph.co.uk unveils its list of the Britons who are making the biggest impact over the pond in the United States. Today we publish those ranked 20 to 11 and will publish the top ten tomorrow. Have your say: Who do you think are the most influential US Britons?The 50 most influential Britons in America: 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 10-1 20. GORDON RAMSAY
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Freecycle members told not to trade weapons
Nick Skeet, who set up the Croydon arm of Freecycle, has told members of the group that "firearms and weapons" of any sort are not to be offered or requested. A blanket ban on advertising replicas, air powered or pump action weapons and ornamental swords is in place on the site. A notice on the site says: "I know that some people belong to clubs and want guns for use there. However this is not something we will venture into at Croydon-Freecycle." Mr Skeet, from Upper Norwood, said he felt it necessary to issue the warning after one member used the site to request an air rifle. "With everything that's been going on recently, especially around my area with what happened to Evren Anil, I wanted to put a stop to it," he explained, adding: "I don't want Freecycle to end up being a part of something like that - for there to be a newspaper report saying something awful has happened to someone and the perpetrator got that weapon off Freecycle." .
Chef Puts the 'Mod' in Modern Mexican Cooking
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Old Mexico meets modern cuisine with delectable results in Dos Caminos Mod Mex: Cooking Vibrant Fiesta Flavors at Home (Andrews McMeel Publishing, $24.95, November 2007). Mod Mex is the creation of award-winning chef Scott Linquist of the highly successful Dos Caminos restaurants and cookbook maven Joanna Pruess. With three highly successful Dos Caminos locations in New York City -- as well as a fourth outpost opening in Las Vegas in The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino in the Venetian in December 2007 -- it is the ideal time for Scott to share the authentic Mexican flavors and secrets from his restaurant kitchens with home chefs everywhere. The techniques and more than 125 fresh and easy- to-prepare recipes in Dos Caminos Mod Mex draw from Scott's more than 15 years of studying Mexican food and culture, highlighting regions from Baja and the Yucatan to Oaxaca.
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