Lisa Lacy

Lisa lives in Brooklyn. She started out as a financial reporter for Dow Jones (which is ironic as she's not very good with money). She likes to bake and dreamed of a career at Martha Stewart -- which she made happen for a brief, shining moment, along with a stint at Good Housekeeping. Now, she writes for publications like The Luxury Spot and LearnVest. In addition to N.Y., she has lived in California, Mississippi, Georgia, Wisconsin, Alaska, and England (but her parents were not in the military).

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Orange or Raspberry Seltzer Water...but never Lemon-Lime.

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Lisa's Latest Posts

• The Big Pizza Punishment

  posted by Lisa Lacy October 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM in Food & Party

  

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  Naughty children of yore used to go to bed without supper. Others got spanked. Their adult crime-committing counterparts used to face mutilation for petty crimes or an eternity in a dank jail cell. Times have changed. And so have the sentences.

  While time-outs seem to be the prevailing punishment for modern children, a grown man in Buffalo, New York recently learned that today's adult lawbreakers can sometimes face creative sentences for nonviolent crimes.

  That's because the man in question, a restaurant owner, has been sentenced to deliver 12 pizzas a week to a local shelter for 12 months. It's a good deal for him -- he avoids jail time despite a guilty plea to charges of grand larceny. (He withheld $104,000 in sales tax.)

  It's an unusual punishment from a Supreme Court judge, to be sure ... but it's one that does some good. But how much good? And is it really fair?

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• The Prize for 'Liking' Beer on Facebook? It Isn't Free Beer

  posted by Lisa Lacy October 18, 2010 at 12:47 PM in Food & Party

  

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  Corona Light is taking on the light beers of the world in a new promotion to make it the most liked light beer on Facebook ... and, in my humble opinion, it's biting off more than it can chew. (Or swallow?)

  True, it gained approximately 16,000 fans over the weekend, but it has a long way to go before it catches up with the likes of Coors Light (which has more than 494,000 fans) and Bud Light (which has more than 795,000 fans), for example.

  What's in it for these new fans? Each person who "likes" the brand is given an option to upload photos of themselves that will appear on a billboard in Times Square between November 8 and December 5.

  That's right -- at some ambiguous point during a nearly four-week period, your mug could grace the Times Square billboard, too! All you have to do is click a measly button and upload the most ravishing digital image of yourself and microseconds of world fame are all yours!

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• 7 Underrated Potatoes = Dozens of Exciting New Sides!

  posted by Lisa Lacy October 17, 2010 at 9:00 PM in Food & Party

  

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  I was recently having dinner with my better half when he noticed the steak he ordered came with fingerling potatoes.

  "Which ones are those?" he asked.

  "I think they're the small ones," I said.

  And that's when it hit me that other than Russets and reds, I don't know a whole lot about the different kinds of potatoes out there ... and I certainly don't BUY them to cook with them. But, after a little research, I discovered the world is full of interesting potatoes! And lots of them are at your grocery store right now.

  So, come with me as I share what I've learned about specialty potatoes (and by "specialty," I mean, "not Russet").

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• Is Jesus Trying to Contact Us Through Cheetos?

  posted by Lisa Lacy October 15, 2010 at 4:33 PM in Food & Party

  

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  Have you ever opened a bag of chips or walked through your vegetable garden and thought, "Wow! That [insert food here] looks a lot like [insert celebrity/animal/religious figure here]!"

  If so, you -- like Finn and his grilled Cheesus on last week's episode of Glee -- are not alone. Whether it's an act of nature, manufacturing, or cooking, images appear in food all the time. There's even an article on eHow that explains how to sell a potato chip that looks like a celebrity (in case you want to make some money out of it) and Consumerist went as far as writing a guide specific to religious figures in food.

  And Cheetos, which seem to lend itself particularly well to shape analysis, has a Lookalike Analyzer on its website.

  Whether you believe it's divine intervention or not, read on for 9 examples of G-rated lookalike foods. (Click here for the x-rated versions.)

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• Restaurant Ratings: Do Fewer Stars Mean a Terrible Meal?

  posted by Lisa Lacy October 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM in Food & Party

  

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  We all have a general understanding that the more stars a restaurant receives in a review, the better. Del Posto, for example, was recently given four stars by The New York Times -- a rare accomplishment that inspired owner Mario Batali to tweet, "Holy Shitaly!!!"

  It's safe to assume Batali's venture is a solid one, but what exactly do each of those stars mean in OTHER reviews? What's the difference between, say, a three-star restaurant and a two-star restaurant?

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