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Call me crazy, but I like them plain--no butter--with lots of salt.

I am crazy about sweet potatoes, and it's kismet that I should read this post on SE right now, directly after having devoured a sweet po with butter, cinnamon, cayenne, brown sugar and sea salt -- and blogging about it! (http://thenervouscook.com)

made some buckwheat sweet potato cake w/ orange glaze a few days ago.

http://glutenfreemommy.com/buckwheat-sweet-potato-quick-bread/

i just subbed in regular flour and a T of cornstarch for the gluten-free flours and xanthan gum.

I loved the clove, licorice the best but actually enjoyed all the flavors. Didn't know about Neccos being the candy for the soliders..interesting. I lived on an army base when I was a teenager, we would go to the show and throw jujubees at each other...was weird going to the show all the soliders that lived on the base would stand up and cheer when my sister and I walked in, not just for us, they cheered for all young girls age 15, 17 years. Was very strange but I never felt scared, they probably knew who my Dad was!

I worked as a bartender in NYC restaurants and hotels from 1978 to 1993, and I agree with every last one of Buschel's commandments. I don't think they're inconsistent in the least. The inclusion of the "only" in the line about the two final lobsters, for example, is what makes that a hustle rather than a piece of information.

And just because the Served blogger claims it's OK to ask what was wrong when the tip is bad doesn't mean it's right. It's far better if the manager goes over and asks if there was a problem than if the server does.

I love lists! For those who think there are inconsistencies, they are missing the point, for example, make sure the water glasses are filled(it pisses me off when wait staff or bar tenders intentionally are slow on bringing a water glass or slow to fill up the glass to encourage me to drink more alcohol), but at the same time don't refill them every second.

It boils down to, waiting tables is an art and a profession, there is a fine line between too much and too little...and the really good staff are few and far between even at very top, expensive restaurants(I have experienced the water issue at a top restaurant in Chicago)so when you have a great person serving your table be sure to show your appreciation in whatever way you can.

P.S. I am not in the restaurant business, so this is not a plug, I am in the customer service business and there is a HUGE gap between Great and medicore people, and most of the time the GREAT people don't get the praise they deserve and the mediocre ones get more praise than they deserve...

Buy outs? Like they do not feel they can live on the small profits and meager returns and sell out? Or children who have been to college and decided life off the farm is more personally and financially rewarding to them? The ones near cities where it is more profitable to sell the farm to make a subdivision of people who wonder where the farm went? That is lifestyle choice. Sorry, I know my family and friends as well. Former dairy and vegetable farmers who decided the long hard hours were no longer of interest, and rented the land to others to work or sold it to developers for massive profits unachievable in a lifetime of farming. Farming is not easy, it is long, hard, time consuming work, very few are willing to do it.

Most smart farmers incorporate the business side, yes the Family owns the land, but they use a corporate structure to protect themselves financially, the farm corporation owns the product hires the labor and the family owns the farm and rents it to the corporation. It removes their personal liability if a worker maims themselves on the job, or someone gets salmonella or listeria from a product they produce, the corporate assets are at risk, not the home and land.

Why not ignore the CAFO's we ignore Human cities which are far more destructive, far more polluting. Where are the organic farmers to use the hills of manure that are essential to replenishing the soil? The farmer who mixes cattle sheep pigs and poultry on one farm is the guy who is responsible for the hybrid influenzas like the current H1N1.

When we go all organic and eliminate the evil corporations, who will process the product that can't be sold fresh? Are you willing to be included in the third of the worlds population that is estimated to starve to death because of inadequate food supplies? Are you willing to work on a farm for meager pay for excessively long hours to fill your Utopian dream? Oh and then lets complain about the low paid farm workers, the suffering migrant laborers, the fact that you can't grow locally enough food to feed metropolitan New Your City's population. Where do you get your fruit and vegetables in winter in Fargo North Dakota in January? Hope you like beets and rutabaga, that's about all your options would be.

Grow up, their is a middle ground that is essential to feed an overpopulated world. You need corporate entities to preserve, can and process the seasonal crops that are essential to feed everyone. Yes, modern agriculture must be sustainable, but organic as it exists today can't fill every need, science, selective breeding of plants to improve yields and disease and pest resistance are essential, and only evil corporations have the resources to do this.

Hmm I beg to differ, my meat-eating friend. Though I now live outside the United States, I could name you at least 10 of my friends whose families still operate family farms. Gradually, they are being put out of business due to buyouts by corporation farms. And when I say put out of business I mean they are put OUT of business; not being managed by a corporation.

And yes, they are evil. CAFO's? Are you kidding? Those aren't evil? Have you blatantly ignored the negative impact these cattle-cities have on the environment? Come on now.

Thankfully there's a burgeoning movement to return to the as you put it in quotes, "family farm." I assure you, they do exist.

Individuals can do much to educate those around them.

Wow, that was terrible.

Surprisingly, I thought Marcel and Ilan had actually grown up and were quite entertaining. Bringing back Lisa was kinda digging at the bottom of the barrel.

And then we get to Fabio's hosting ..... the thing that struck me the most was how upset he got about rehashing troubled times when he kept bringing them up himself (his only purpose for being there it seemed).

Aquavit - I agree! but not all the time.

Got off of tabasco - and using Frank's hot sauce now.

Definitely olives -- and please no celery, thank you very much

Calling Marcel a jerk is a huge understatement.
I enjoyed the show though.