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...Erik R. Trinidad, a New York advertising designer and amateur food stylist, created the site to poke fun at the self-important culture of food connoisseurship. And it has become consuming: "I spend a lot of time online just looking at the menus," he says. "Even when I cook for myself now, I try to make it look fancy." Trinidad welcomes submissions to the site, but he has one rule - everything must come from the same fast-food restaurant. That leads to some creative solutions: need soy sauce for that chicken "sushi"? Heat the Coke you bought on a stove...
While the upgraded meals are virtually unrecognizable, Trinidad says the concoctions taste basically the same as the original grub, albeit with different textures. His favorite menu choice is the "Tacobellini" - a pair of Burrito Supremes sliced to resemble tortellini - though he's not that crazy about fast food to begin with. In fact, one New Year's resolution was to stop eating it entirely except for road trips, but "this thing kind of broke that rule...
...member of the club of left-wing Latin American leaders - and its honcho, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, has already deemed this a hemispheric crisis that will challenge the new north-south bonhomie President Barack Obama established two months ago at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Less than an hour after Honduran military aircraft had whisked Zelaya into apparent forced exile in Costa Rica, Chávez was accusing the CIA of having a hand in his ouster. "The Yanqui empire," he said, "has much to do" with what he called "this troglodyte coup...
...discussion. "Where there is resistance to a certain set of policies that we are pursuing, that resistance may turn out just to be based on old preconceptions or ideological dogmas that, when they're cleared away, it turns out that we can actually solve a problem," Obama said in Trinidad...
...President Hugo Chávez, Correa espouses "21st century socialism," which has put him on a confrontational course with Washington over the past few years. But even more so than Chávez, who publicly warmed to U.S. President Barack Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Correa has been effusive about the new government in Washington. Obama is a "sincere, open, cordial person who creates great expectancy," Correa gushed after the Trinidad summit. Now it is a matter of seeing how well Correa's pragmatic socialism meshes with the policies in formation in Washington. (Read...