Tonkatsu

Tonkatsu with the Bull-Dog Tonkatsu sauce :), served with sauteed red onion and Shiitake mushrooms.

Jeff used pork tenderloin breaded with panko bread crumbs, so the tonkatsu came out really light, crispy, and tender. It was so good.

Barney was sitting by Jeff's legs, as usual, while we were eating.  Jeff showed him the Bull-Dog sauce bottle and encouraged Barney to follow the lead of the bulldog on the bottle and start making money :)

Atlanta

We went to Atlanta a few weeks ago.  It was overcast and rainy while we were there, but we had a great time nonetheless.  We didn't take too many pictures, but here are some of them. 

We stayed in a Fabulous room (i.e. the smallest room) at the W hotel in Buckhead. Thom Felicia is the Interior Designer and I think he did a great job.  Our room really looked fabulous.  I like that this property didn't look ultra modern like the other W properties that I have been to. It was contemporary, with old charms mixed in with modern pieces.  The rest of the hotel has the same look as well.

The next day, we visited CNN and were given an insider tour of the studios.  We went inside a control room while a live show was on air and, in front of a different studio, waved to an anchor who was preparing to go on air.  It was super cool.

The World of Coca Cola was right across the park from CNN.  I was so excited to go there, given that Coke has been my most favorite drink all these years. 

This is what "Mr. Coke" (aka Mr. Pemberton, the inventor of Coca Cola) looked like.  He was hanging out by the entrance.

 There were a few rooms filled with original ads from the 50's, 60's and 70's from around the world.  Look what we finally found in the last room.  Look at the guy and the girl dancing in the back... hahaha.

An old fire station from the 1920's.

Milk

I bought a bottle of unhomogenized (whole) milk from Whole Foods the other day.  I actually didn't know what unhomogenized means but the milk looked farm fresh, so I bought it.  As you would expect with fresh milk, there is a layer of cream sitting on top.  The instruction on the bottle says to "shake it, baby!" so that the cream layer is mixed in with the milk.  It did taste different than the usual whole milk that I normally get from a supermarket.  It has that kind of funky/organic kind of taste - but I like it.  I've been thinking that I'll only get unhomogenized milk from now on.

So what is unhomogenized milk?  I googled it that night and what I found was pretty interesting.  Homogenization is a process by which fresh milk (with the cream layer on top) is put through a machine in order to break the cream layer into tiny particles.  The cream particles are then mixed back into the milk in order to make whole milk (I think that 2% of the cream is mixed back in if they're making 2% milk but I have to look it up again to be sure).  They do this because research has found that consumers find the cream layer unappetizing.  Homogenization is not to be confused with Pasteurization though.  Unlike pasteurization, homogenization doesn't kill bacteria or extend the shelf life of milk.  All it does is break down the cream layer and mix it back in.

Here's the interesting part. It turns out that those cream particles that are mixed back into milk are so small that they can now be absorbed into the blood stream.  This causes high cholesterol.  Can you imagine?  This won't happen with unhomogenized milk because the particles of the cream layer are too big to get into the blood stream.  Who would have thought?  More reasons to buy unhomogenized milk!