I'm not Jewish but I found this article profoundly moving. The ingenuity necessary to survive the experience notwithstanding, some even found ways to make matzo and keep the Passover holiday. I wish the article had been longer....
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I've noticed a lot of posts recently about passover menus. I was just on the Los Angeles Times website and I saw this wonderful piece in the Food section. I hope it will help some of you- or at least...
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So bad it's allegedly punishment for prison inmates. Anyone got a recipe? Ever tried it? http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Food-or-Punishment.html...
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Interesting article in the Freakonomics blog today about tipping practices, and what data tells us. "A cross-tab of the raw data shows that white customers tipped black servers almost four percentage points less than white servers and that black customers...
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This NYT article briefly discusses architect Fritz Haeg's _Edible_Estates:_Attack_on_the_Front_Lawn_, a book on the progressive concept using one's front yard -- not backyard -- as a vegetable garden. I'm not a homeowner yet, but I envision my "attacked" front lawn with...
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Did you ever notice the way your mood changes for the seasons? I came across this article today that I found very interesting: http://www.homemakers.com/Health&Fitness/healthymind/happy-foods--eat-to-beat-the-winter-blues-n247237p1.html...
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Has everyone seen this from the Times today? http://tinyurl.com/26u2b8 (may require free registration) Do you and your significant other share the same dietary restrictions? Both vegans? Vegetarians? Eat any and everything under the sun?...
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Has anyone here been lucky enough to go to Thomas Keller's French Laundry? I used to fantasize about it when i'd go to napa but i haven't been in years. I hadn't thought about it much when i saw this...
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There's an interesting article on the NYT website that describes the harrows of obsessive-compulsives eating out. Have you ever suffered this way in a restaurant, and if so, how did it manifest?...
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An interesting article, Dead Serious, which discusses how "little progress has been made this decade in reducing the size of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, a massive area of oxygen-depleted water caused by agricultural and urban runoff." The researchers...
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