caloriecount.com

As you probably know deep inside your inner brain, the key to losing weight and maintaining a healthy poundage lies not in omitting carbs, fat, sugar, or gluten, but in eating less of everything. As a mnemonic aid, caloriecount.com has invented a set of infographics to remind you what "healthy" portions should look like.

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In very sad news today, the wonderful Maurice Sendak has died due to complications from a recent stroke. Sendak was considered one of the most important children's book artists of the 20th century.

There will likely be many tributes and stories about Sendak today; you can read some here:

The New York Times
The Atlantic
Associated Press

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Fork in the Road is proud to announce another series of participants for the Choice Streets tasting event, to be held on a Hudson River pier with the Battleship Intrepid towering overhead.

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Video courtesy KSAX, Alexandria and Redwood Falls, Minnesota

"Holy cow, this thing is long," exclaimed one student as he dug into the banana split yesterday afternoon at the Willmar Community Christian School in Willmar, Minnesota (population 19,610).

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A string of nine armed robberies in Queens, mostly along Junction and Queens boulevards, has the New York City Police Department keeping a careful eye on food carts along major thoroughfares in the borough -- the target of eight of those stickups (the ninth victim was a livery cab driver). Most of the victims have been Asian males between the ages of 37 and 55, and the robberies occurred between Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 10.

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Grand Forks Herald

Welcome to the Big Apple, Marilyn

Marilyn Hagerty, America's most famous food writer of the moment, is planning a trip to New York City. And she's going to be blogging about her visit, which will include stops to Le Bernardin and, of course, the Olive Garden in Times Square.

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The Kelvin slushy truck just after it began operation in 2010

Fork in the Road is pleased to announce that tickets for Choice Eats are entirely sold out, both VIP and normal-admission tickets. Next year, get them earlier! But the cloud has a silver lining: Tickets for the Voice's first annual Choice Streets festival -- featuring a gaggle of excellent food-vending trucks -- go on sale today.

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onlinedentist.org

The New York Times reports that children's chompers have become astonishingly bad lately due to a number of factors. One is the tendency of parents to put their offspring to bed with a bottle of juice, which leaves the sugars eroding teeth during sleep. Another is the preponderance of snacks the kids consume on a continuous basis. But one of the biggest reasons apparently may be the belief on the part of parents that bottled water is better for their kids than tap water.

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Jeff Pearson

Fork in the Road is proud to announce former Smiths bass guitarist and veteran DJ Andy Rourke will be spinning the wheels of steel at this year's Choice Eats tasting event. Which raises the question: Can you pogo while eating?

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You may have thought that the Village -- a hotbed of Belgian ales, saisons, barley wines, craft beers, and locavoric brews -- had become impervious to mass-marketed suds. But into that hoppy maelstrom Anheuser-Busch dives this evening, shooting a commercial near Horatio Street beginning at 8 p.m. and running all the way to 4 a.m.

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