I came across this Father's Day recipe today. It sure looks yummy!

"Oreo was first introduced by Nabisco in 1912, it used a much more organic wreath for its emboss, later augmented with two pairs of turtledoves in a 1924 redesign. The contemporary Oreo stamp was introduced in 1952, and it has remained unchanged. Oreo enthusiasts have studied the logos extensively, searching for their meanings:

The circle topped with a two-bar cross in which the word 'OREO' resides is a variant of the Nabisco logo, and is either 'an early European symbol for quality' (according to Nabisco's promotional materials) or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the Knights Templar into the Crusades. Continuing the Da Vinci Code-theme, the Oreo's geometric pattern of a dot with four triangles radiating outward is either a schematic drawing of a four-leaf clover or — cue the cliffhanger music from Jaws — the cross pattée, also associated with the Knights Templar, as well as with the German military and today's Freemasons."

Read the article here.

Sagres is Portugal's leading beer brand. This year, Sagres brewed a new product: Sagres Preta Chocolate, a chocolate flavoured stout beer.

Vegetable art from Magimix ad by Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive

Recipe from Mireille Guiliano's the "French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook."

This morning I came across this wonderful recipe from Beth Michelle:

Dan Lewis has a wonderful blog called "Now I Know", where he shares something interesting everyday.

Today I learned the truth about baby carrots.

Americans eat roughly 10 pounds of carrots each year. And we are willing to bet that most of those carrots are of the two-inch long, sold by the bag, baby variety. These popular crunchy snack items are ubiquitous, with some grocery stores carrying (literally) a ton of them. They are relatively new, appearing in stores only since the 1990s. What genetic legerdemain has provided us with this tiny vegetable?

None. Baby carrots are just regular carrots, whittled down into tiny, two-bite sizes.

Sommer Collier at "A Spicy Perspective" has a wonderful story and recipe for an Indian summer drink.