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I have been eating the truffle crisp for about six months and I do like it. I think I like it better than the classic. The crisp does feel like it is meringue but is much sturdier and since there is not much fluff it 'feels' lighter.

Go Huskies! Nice to hear another from Northeasterner (class or '92). It's been awhile since I been back on campus. What is good to eat on (or more probably) off campus? Since this is your co-op what is it being applied to?

I'm in Columbia, SC and I was on the phone with a client concentrating getting their equest done to notice anything else. But as soon as I got off the phone that everybody in my office was talking about. Since we are an IT and software company, we were checking all the web sites. We had this and now we have to worry about Irene. Maybe I keep that watermelon I bought at the farmers market for the weekend.

I'm seeing a lot of comments for the 'Little House' books. There is a Little House Cookbook, with all the recipes from maple candy to 'long winter' bread. I got it for Christmas one year and I still love it. That's how I know I have a great book in my hands: when I'm so imersed in the story that I'm sitting at the table with the characters eating the food with them ('Pie for breakfast? Thanks Ma Wilder!' 'Mr. Wonka? Can I have a ladleful from the choclate river too?' 'MUST FIND HONEYDUES')

I listened to the author on NPR's Fresh AIr. I knew the industrial tomato was 'a tastelss orb' but I didn't realized how bad things have gotten. Like how tomatoes shold not be grown in Florida: It's too humid, with too many insects and are liteally grown in sand, so water is wasted.

He also gave how he got the idea to investiage tomato growing practices: he was behind a truck filled with green tomatoes down a road when the truck hit a bump or pothole. Tomatoes came flying out and the author swerved from being hit. He got out of the care and looked at the dicth by by the road. Not only the green tomatoes survived the pavement to bounce into the ditch, but none had split or even bruise.

It is Winnepeg. The groom worked for a while in Alberta, that was how I got confused. I'll check these out. Thanks.

As much as I like seeing what happened at HQ, it still stings that there are no Dumpling pictures this week nor anymore weeks :(

Just want to thank you for your suggestions. I took scarletini and annient's advice and pan fried them (in a combo of butter and butter flavored olive oil). I did dredged them in flour that had a pinch of papirika in it. I served with rice, a lemon pan sauce and microgreens that I also picked up at the market. At first it felt wierd eating a shell, but you get taste that sweet meat and before I knew it the two crabs were gone.

@MandyEats "Poor little upper-middle-class (possibly rich) girl with no real problems". An abusive father and indifferent mother sound like real problems to me.

For your Beer and Cider based drinks you should include Shandies - Beer mixed with a flavourings like ginger or another spice. I've seen them in Ghana and the Caribbean. In fact I had a Carib's Shandy last night.

@andrearode: I'm reading The Spice Necklace right now. It's great reading this thinking some of the people the Vanderhoofs meet are would be cousins of mine (Dad's family from 4 islands and Granddad was a cook). The Art of Eating is more like 3 books plus essay collections, but it is still good. Some parts do feel a bit elightist, you you have to remember how isolated she was grew up and and does learn what it feels like to be on the other side.
Bourdian and Riechl are also my faves.

I'm part of that "over 51, all African-Americans, those with type 2 diabetes, those that have hypertension or high pressure or kidney disease" group that is warned to cut thier sodium down to 1500 mg, 1/2 teaspoon) a day (actually I'm in more than one catagory for that group). My first thought was how? Yes I am eating better and trying to cook more myself, but I know the resturants aren't helping and and sodium is in places you don't sould be (salt in frozen foods, really?). The worst part of this is I care and I try to make a difference in my eating habits. I have too many relatives who refuse to change, and some have paid the price too young. Others who just don't look at the side of the box and think they are doing fine ('look it says its low fat!' That is a 3 Musketeers bar!)