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The Restaurant With No (Visible) Workers - A new highly automated restaurant that opened in San Francisco on Monday looks to speed service through efficiency — you won't see any people taking your order or serving you at the Eatsa quinoa eatery. ... "With a virtual cashier and no wait staff, eatsa is a seamless, personalized experience utilizing kiosk stations and a cubby pick-up concept which provides food when customers want it," the company says in a press invite.



Are Women Better Tasters Than Men? - Many in the wine and beer industry claim women have a keener sense of smell, and thus taste, than do men. Sensory scientists who've tackled this question say there's something to this.

Scientists put Defence Force chocolate energy bar to the test - The bar has been developed by the Centre for Food Innovation, which is a collaboration between the University of Tasmania, the CSIRO and the Defence Science Technology Group (DSTG), which has a laboratory at Scottsdale in north-east Tasmania. DSTG's Paul Capella said the extended energy bar was designed to provide energy over an longer time period, instead of an instant sugar hit. "We need food that'll release energy slowly so they can remain focused and alert while on extended missions," he said.

Find Out What Country You Drink Like - See which country matches your drinking preferences for five different kinds of beverages, according to two studies that measured drinking behavior, country by country, across the globe.

Phillip White goes to a posh tasting that a big international wine outfit called Ficofi puts on every four or five years at Kaesler Wines in the Barossa:One or two hundred invited guests and some highly notable break-ins rock up to the Kaesler barrel cellar where one or two hundred bottles of the world's most expensive wines are lined up, open. Many of them are what winos call "large format" bottles, by which they mean double magnums, methuselahs, imperials and whatnot. Bottles that hold a whole case of wine. Thinking person's stubbies.

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