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Austin Food and Wine Festival 2013

Austin Food and Wine Festival 2013

Scenes from the second annual Austin Food and Wine Festival, which moved to Butler Park this year, featuring celebrity chefs, sommeliers, winemakers and even a few farmers thrown in the programming mix, on Saturday, April 27, 2013.

50 Eggs, 50 ways

50 Eggs, 50 ways

50 Eggs, 50 Ways: Ahead of Easter, we roundup 50 ideas for using eggs, plus a dozen or so tips, tricks and techniques for these hardworking dietary staples.

Aquaponics farms

Aquaponics farms

Using fish and pool-bound plants, three local farms are changing the way food is grown.

 
  • IHOP serves a breakfast consisting of deep-fried steak with gravy, two fried eggs, deep-fried potatoes, and two buttermilk pancakes. The Country Fried Steak & Eggs combo has 1,760 calories, 23 grams of saturated fat, 3,720 mg of sodium, and 11 teaspoons of added sugar. CSPI says that's like having five McDonald's Egg McMuffins sprinkled with 10 packets of sugar. **from Center for Science in the Public Interest**
  • Johnny Rockets' Bacon Cheddar Double burger has 1,770 calories, 50 grams of saturated fat, and 2,380 milligrams of sodium. An order of the chain's Sweet Potato Fries adds another 590 calories and 800 mg of sodium. The chain's Big Apple Shake—a milkshake that actually contains a slice of apple pie—has 1,140 calories, 37 grams of saturated fat, and about 13 teaspoons of added sugar. That meal delivers a total of 3,500 calories (nearly two days' worth), 88 grams of saturated fat (four-and-a-half days' worth) and 3,720 mg of sodium (two-and-a-half days' worth. It's like eating 3 McDonald's Quarter Pounders with Cheese, a large Fries, a medium McCafé Vanilla Shake, and 2 Baked Apple Pies. **from Center for Science in the Public Interest**
  • The Deep Dish Macaroni & 3-Cheese at Uno Chicago Grill has four cups of pasta; Cheddar, Parmesan, and Romano cheeses; an Alfredo sauce made from heavy cream, cheese, rendered chicken fat, and butter; and a crushed Ritz Cracker topping. With a day's worth of calories (1,980), three-and-a-half days' worth of saturated fat (71 grams), and two days' worth of sodium (3,110 mg), eating this entrée is like eating a whole Family Size box of Stouffer's Macaroni & Cheese—with half a stick of butter melted on top. **from Center for Science in the Public Interest**
  • One might think that the Bistro Shrimp Pasta from The Cheesecake Factory is one of the less fattening things on the menu, what with its shrimp, mushrooms, tomato, and arugula. It actually has more calories than any other entrée (at 3,120), along with 89 grams of saturated fat (enough to keep your arteries busy from Monday morning to noon on Friday, says CSPI). It's the nutritional equivalent of three orders of Olive Garden's Lasagna Classico plus an order of Tiramisu. **from Center for Science in the Public Interest**
  • Smoothie King combines peanut butter, banana, sugar, and grape juice in its Peanut Power Plus Grape Smoothie. Some may think that sounds healthy, but a 40-oz. large size has 1,460 calories and three- and-a-half days' worth of added sugar (22 teaspoons). Make that six-and-a-half days' worth, since the 17 teaspoons of naturally occurring sugar in the grape juice aren't any healthier than added sugar. There's an additional 12 teaspoons of sugar coming from the banana and nonfat milk. **from Center for Science in the Public Interest**
  • Few would consider eating an entire, eight-serving Entenmann's Chocolate Fudge Cake. Yet a slice of the Chocolate Zuccotto Cake at Maggiano's Little Italy is roughly equivalent, with almost a day's worth of calories (1,820), three days' worth of saturated fat (62 grams), and four days' worth of added sugar (26 teaspoons). **from Center for Science in the Public Interest**
 

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