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Nov 12, 2026 - Lifestyle

Chicago real estate agent Brandy Bell of Baird & Warner brings 15 years of corporate finance experience to a real estate practice built around seeing beyond a property’s current condition to its potential. She serves buyers, sellers, and investors across greater Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana and is the founder of the interior design studio Welcomed […] The post Brandy Bell: Where Real Estate Strategy Meets Interior Design appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Nov 12, 2026 - Lifestyle

This soft-but-dense, velvety delight is cake at its most pudding-like. It’s at its prime still warm from the oven, but gets gloriously fudgy after a night in the fridgeThe note by Elizabeth David is helpful here: “This cake can also be eaten like a pudding” for its soft-dense-velvet-texture. But I am jumping ahead: this week’s column started in Ferrara, a city in the wetlands of the Po delta in the north-eastern corner of Emilia-Romagna. Half medieval lanes and half green avenues and parks, Ferrara is home to one of Europe’s most imposing red-brick castles, one that provides a home to an annual journalism festival run by the magazine Internazionale. Ferrara is also known for a cake. In fact, it was after a discussion about translation and fact-checking with the Italian writer Domenico Starnone and the translator Ann Goldstein that I first ate a wedge of chocolate, butter, egg, sugar and flour torta tenerina.Having just mentioned fact-checking, I am now going to side-step the origin stories. The name, however, more or less translates as “little tender one”, although that “little” refers more to the fact that it is a bit tender, rather than being on the small side. Especially because tenerina recipes from Ferrara call for tins ranging from 24-26cm in size, which produce slender cakes that are gently cracked on top and tacolenta (sticky) within; in fact, another name for the cake is torta tacolenta. Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - Lifestyle

ShopKanna brings several hemp THC beverage brands together in one online store, including Cann, Cycling Frog, Just Chill and Wynk. Its current selection remains available as a federal deadline approaches that could change how much THC a hemp-derived drink can contain while retaining its federal hemp classification. The retailer’s drinks contain between 2 and 10 […] The post ShopKanna Keeps Hemp THC Drinks Available as December 11 Deadline Nears appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Nov 12, 2026 - Lifestyle

A company working to make chemical production more sustainable has taken the top prize at the world’s largest startup competition. ZymoChem, an East Bay-based specialty chemicals company, won the $1 million investment prize at the 2026 Startup World Cup Grand Finale in San Francisco, surpassing regional champions from more than 60 countries. The company’s pitch […] The post ZymoChem Wins Startup World Cup’s $1 Million Prize With a New Approach to Chemical Manufacturing appeared first on Grit Daily News.

Nov 12, 2026 - Lifestyle

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is the most common gastrointestinal disorder in the United States. Antireflux surgery (ARS) is emerging as a definitive long-term treatment option for patients with severe GERD to reduce the need for long-term acid-suppressive medications. Unfortunately, for decades, surgeons relied primarily on tactile sensation and visual judgment in the operating room to […] The post How Dr. Hala Al Asadi Is Transforming Anti-Reflux Surgery Through Precision MedTech with EndoFLIP appeared first on Grit Daily News.