"we gotta keep away the scurvy"

Now available. If I had plants, I'd buy TWO cases!

A group from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has come up with some methods to determine why diet sodas suck.

Two varieties of Coca-Cola. Both sweetened with cane sugar, rather than high fructose corn syrup. On the surface–could they be more similar? And yet if we look a bit more closely, we find they have vastly disparate pedigrees. Which is the ultimate?

Right, I know what I'm buying this weekend.

"The key for me was to transition from regular Coke to an acceptable diet soda. Through the years I have tried a few diet sodas here and there and without fail found them to be absolutely disgusting."

A handful of freethinking bartenders have started to employ the techniques of avant-garde cooking to their work behind the bar, a trend that's being called "molecular mixology."

Just what the blogging world needs - a folksonomy for booze.