#78 - moving & shaking.

ATTENTION PEOPLE OF THE BLOGOSPHERE!
EAT!DRINK!SNACK! HAS MOVED!

monday, march 30, 2009
after a short love affair with the blogger.com blogging platform, eat!drink!snack! is moving on to greener pastures. this is something i had been planning for june 9th, on the one-year anniversary of my first entry, but this past friday, i finally had the url & the new blogging platform & i just couldn't wait. it's like if somebody gave you a birthday present & you were sooooo excited about it, but instead said "you know what? thank you for the gift, but i'm going to wait until two months from now to open it"...no way was i putting the gift up on my nightstand only to have to stare at it for the next 70 days.

70 days is a long time.

what does this mean exactly? well, it means that:

new web address!
http://eatdrinksnack.com

new rss feed!
http://eatdrinksnack.com/index/rss.xml

new logo (of sorts)!
i was chatting with my design-awesome brother via an instant messenger program on friday night, when i first started thinking about the new site & asked him if he wanted to make me a header for the site. he started just playing around with reverse type & whatnot and sent me a few "messing around" versions...i ended up liking one enough that i put it up on the site. thanks, bro.

new entries from this weekend!
there are two new entries waiting for you over at the new site--one focusing on the decemberists & one focusing on a weekend trip to chinatown with the aforementioned bro.

new content!
in addition to my periodic meditations/rants & the newly-added "nosh nook," which brings you the best snack news item from the previous day, this wednesday, i'm adding a new weekly column for the month of april...snack away! snack away! comes to you every wednesday from a different city across the globe, bringing you a snack & drink-themed rant from someone who is not me, but still awesome.

please redirect all applicable indicies...& thanks for following.

#78 - moving & shaking.
snack: wel-pac edamame
drink: chamomile ginkgo biloba tea

i woke up relatively early on sunday morning to put the finishing touches on the new site & sit down to write this goodbye to blogger. my chinatown purchases from the day before included a bag of wel-pac edamame & a box of chamomile ginkgo biloba tea, so i started my day with a bit of each.

edamame are so good & protein-filled. i can eat approximately 3,000 of them in one sitting. i am slightly infatuated with their pseudo fur-covered pods. if you are at a restaurant with me & we order some, you best be on your toes. if you don't like them, you're a communist. at the same time, these wel-pac edamame come from china, so if you do like them, there's good chance you're a communist anyhow. either way, this morning, i snacked on a bowl of edamame & loved every minute of it.

i also had a few cups of chamomile ginkgo biloba tea. ginkgo biloba is often used pharmaceutically, but for the life of me, i can't remember what for.

fyi...you could have read this entry on the new site. new site!