Is 60-Year-Old Canned Water Still Drinkable? We Find Out
If you opened a sealed can of water from the 1950s and drank it, what would happen? Would you die? Only one way to find out.
LA Restaurant Unveils Fancy 'Water Menu,' Offers 'Water Sommelier'
A fancy shmancy restaurant located inside a Los Angeles County museum is taking pretension as art to its illogical conclusion by introducing what it calls "LA's most extensive Water Menu."
It's Water... With That Brooklyn Flavor
If you're a hip and trendsetting young urban affluencer like me, you can hardly count how many times you've purchased a new brand of bottled water, only to be disappointed with its lack of that... certain something. "I dunno, this just takes like water," you grumble, tossing the disposable plastic bottle onto the…
Fiji Water May Not Be Made in Fiji Anymore
Fiji Water announced it's shutting down operations in Fiji after the government imposed a harsh new tax on water bottling and had a Fiji Water executive deported. Where on earth will they ever find more water for their square bottles?
Sipping Iceberg Water Is 'Like Drinking Air'
Soon you'll be able to pay $10 (or more) for a bottle of Glace Rare Iceberg Water taken straight from an iceberg in Greenland. What a deal! The producer says "It is so tasteless that it actually creates a taste."
Massachusetts Freedom-Haters Ban Bottled Water
Concord, Mass., home of juice company Welch's, has banned the sale of bottled water starting in 2011. An effort to save the so-called "environment," or a bow to pressure from the powerful grape-juice lobby? We report—you decide. [Fox]
Marketers Now Going Bananas For Coconuts
Why did we all get together and agree to stop drinking water? Who knows, really, but we must have at some point because sales of bottled water have been falling fast over the past few months. Which explains why beverage companies are now in the process of coming up with all sorts of crazy new drinks to make up the…
Eating & Drinking: Friday Edition
• Jeffrey Chodorow says he plans to turn his failed steakhouse, Center Cut, into a seafood shack-style spot called Ed's Chowder House. Ed Brown, the chef and owner of Eighty One, will be his partner in the venture. [NYT]
• Like father, like son, apparently: The new chef at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Perry Street is…
Eating & Drinking: Friday Edition
• More than 200 places will be taking part in New York Restaurant Week, which kicks off on Sunday. Here's a list of some of the notable newcomers. [Zagat]
• The outdoor courtyard at Locanda Verde has opened. [GS]
• A rendering of what the "sophisticated cocktail lounge" on the ground floor of the Empire State building…
The Recession Bypasses Sardinia
A "luxury fair" designed to appeal to the world's richest people took place in Sardinia this past weekend. But if you were thinking the economic downturn would have put a damper on things, well, think again. Thirty bottles of "Exousia Gold Luxury Water," which is describede as a "gold petal designer label mineral…
How Bottled Water Hypnotized Us All
Bottled water is a bit like smoking: deep down, we all knew there was something wrong with it from day one. Environmentalism has been a widespread subject in our public consciousness for more than 30 years now. Did anyone really believe that getting our water out of 16-ounce plastic bottles would be an efficient…
