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in ENOS ...great place called the Continental Divide ...

chocolate pate with a raspberry sauce

I got a personal drink mixer which actually looked like a vibrator with a stick attached to it ...

Okay so when you mixed your drink you were to immerse the stick in your old fashioned and it would mix it for you therefore sparing you of the tiresome chore of actually stirring your drink with a stir stick.

roast lamb with garlic, mint, garlic, and drizzled iwht balsamic and olive oil

Pea, Bacon, and Ricotta sauce

homemade bread and butter pickles

Okay ... here is the skinny... Alton's Schtick is not schtick. That is really the way he talks and acts in real life. Keep him ...

Dinner impossible is an affront to anyone that has actually worked in a kitchen and been put in the weeds. Lose it

Unwrapped has run its course.....

Racheal Ray has way too many reruns .... lose her

Keep mario ... Great format ..... great content

The least of the concerns in postville is that it becomes a ghost town. The processing plant (which was shut down by previous owners) brought an onslaught of shady characters from eastern europe, central america, and western africa. The crime rate and gang activity was more than this very small town could handle and it essentailly became a "company" town then. The workers were the least of the problems, the horrid working conditions brought the dis enfranchised from all over but most dangerously also brought those that feed on hte disenfranchised. This was stuck in iowa away from the site of any informed consumer ..... On purpose.

The town has rallied to help the families setting up temporary housing, opening churches, etc.

raspberries with a drizzle of balsamic glaze

Fried Chicken Livers on Wide Amish Noodles with a white sauce.... makes me 12 again

Vietnam - for the food
Dijon - for the history of food
Argentinia - for the diversity

veal shank bones are the best for this, make sure it is that and not knuckle or leg bones (they come from up the animal) before you buy them you can see the amount of fat in them... although lamb is a rich hearty alternative. I like to serve with cold boiled potaoes sprinkled with sea salt, little cornichons, a hearty black bread, and a plate of radishes and sweet cream butter.