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Passover NYT Article...

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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Passover Menu

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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Nutraloaf?

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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Racial Tipping point

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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Attack your Front Lawn?

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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Happy foods -- Eat to beat the winter blues

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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I love you but you love meat

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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The French Laundry

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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When Anxiety Is at the Table

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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More corn but no fish?

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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