Daily Tech: Sheraton Hotel Lobbies Get the Microsoft Surface


Updated 08/14/08 2:01 AM · Posted by GeekSugar · 1 comment

Daily Tech: Sheraton Hotel Lobbies Get the Microsoft Surface

Sheraton Lobbies in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Boston have been outfitted with Microsoft Surfaces so guests can utilize its many applications. — Switched Bluetooth headsets are now getting the bling treatment by being covered with Swarovski crystals. Be prepared to pay $260 for this sparkly gadget. — Crave Polaroid wants readers of Amateur Photographer magazine to come Read more

Meet Baumkuchen, Germany's Glorious Cake on a Spit


Updated 05/12/12 10:08 AM · Posted by · 2 comments

What Is Baumkuchen?

I'm not much of a German food aficionado, but a few years ago, I read a New Yorker article about Germany's "king of cakes" that's been forged in my mind ever since. In the story, Mimi Sheraton embarks on a fervid quest for baumkuchen, a ringed, hollow cake that's made on a spit with layer after painstaking layer of batter, then iced with a coating of chocolate or sugar. Source: Flickr User Read more