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plump raisins stuffed inside pieces of cracklin' oat bran. It's fun, hearty with just the right amount of sweetness, and easy to grab on the go. Bonus points for getting the raisin to plump up like a grape!

I'm so glad that you are back! Your column was one of my favorites, and it was a total surprise today to see your post! I think I know the company you are talking about, because they came to recruit at my school. The woman who was doing the recruiting was very severe, and a little cold. Does it start with an "H" ?

Let's just be honest here. When I'm craving chocolate, I'm not going to last long enough to whip up anything that takes longer to produce than say, 35 seconds. The unspoken truth is that those bags of nestle semi-sweet baking bits? I'd say that a pitiful 40% of them actually made it to the full fledged status of being dessertified. They are bite sized and handful friendly for a reason! So while the other goods on this forum sound lovely, none can hold a candle to the foundation of the chocolate dessert - the supremely satisfying, instantly gratifying, chocolate chip morsel!

I haven't eaten beef since I was 9, so... I've gone 15 years without a burger!

If you don't have time to read Jennifer Lee's book, I highly recommend this TED talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_tso.html

It's one of my favorites: funny, informative, surprising... and you'll learn things about General Tso's, fortune cookie's, and other popular dishes that are pretty awesome :P

THIS ONE!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vsoch/1370362367/

It's a simple Yellow cake from a cookbook my parents got for their wedding (back in the stone age) with semi-sweet chocolate chunks, a chocolate Devil's food cake in the middle, all held together with home made buttercream frosting and rainbows. If you don't use semi-sweet, or don't beat the batter correctly, it's not right. If you nix the rainbows, it's not right either. With a glass of milk, this is the cake I want waiting for me in heaven.

My mom used to make homemade chocolate chip pancakes EVERY Sunday, and we'd freeze them in baggies in pairs for a quick throw in the microwave during the school week. Technically, each baggie had one cake for me, and one for my brother, but one day he didn't come down for breakfast, and I was left with an extra cake. Would I put syrup on it, and have a little more? Throw it back in the freezer for tomorrow? Well, I had a track meet that afternoon and knew that I could use a little extra energy, so I ditched the syrup, pulled out the vanilla bean ice cream, and made a chocolate chip pancake ice cream sandwich. The warm pancake and melty vanilla was... delicious!!

...and I broke the school record for the 800 meters that afternoon!! THAT is what i call powered by pancakes :OD

Dear Whole Foods,

I used to go to you every day, without a doubt, to get something covered in yogurt, and something covered in carob or chocolate. I'm a distance runner, and you know... we have our needs! Not only did you discontinue having your yogurt covered peanuts in your NC store, but you also soon rid of the yogurt covered raisins. Not only do I miss my trips to the bulk bins, but I hardly go to your store anymore. It's one or two rare items like those that give incentive to choose one store over another. Maybe I'm one in many, but it's a marginal loss of about 10 bucks a day for you guys. Bring back the yogurty-goodness!!