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Mixed Review: Dr. Oetker's Double Chocolate Mousse Supreme

I agree with carriebwc's comment but think that these reviews should also list the ingredients for these packaged products. Serious Eaters should know that they aren't really eating chocolate mousse from this box but corn syrup and soy products and various other chemicals and dubious ingredients: Fructose, Dutched Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Hydrogenated Coconut and Palm Kernel Oil, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Modified Potato Starch, Gelatin, Monoglycerides, Acetylated Monoglycerides, Sodium Caseinate (Milk), Artificial Flavor, Salt, Sodium Alginate.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

When I was a kid my grandpa would take me fishing at my great-uncle's Christmas Tree farm, where there was a pond. He would fly-fish while I would fish with a bamboo pole. Once I caught 5 little sunfishes which we took back to the house, he cleaned them and fried them in a skillet. They were delicious and I was exhausted but proud of myself!

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In Videos: Michael Pollan on 'The Colbert Report'

I don't see Michael Pollan "politely taking a sip" of the soda- I see him sniffing it though. Where does he take the sip?

On the breastfeeding, the point isn't whether mothers who fed formula are to be blamed or shamed, the point is that at every level of the "food pyramid", from breastmilk to soft drinks to cheese, we've been sold a bill of goods by those who stand to make money in the processing of foods. Eating whole foods that we've grown ourselves (or bought from someone who did) and cooking it ourselves makes no money for the processors. So they told us that processed and packaged and bleached and fake were healthier and safer for us- sometimes lying outright so that they could make money. And our government participated in this. Thomas Jefferson would say it is our duty as Americans to stand up and protest against abuses by the government against its own people (or any people). That's why we are Americans now and not British :)

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Mixed Review: Dr. Oetker's Double Chocolate Mousse Supreme

I agree with carriebwc's comment but think that these reviews should also list the ingredients for these packaged products. Serious Eaters should know that they aren't really eating chocolate mousse from this box but corn syrup and soy products and various other chemicals and dubious ingredients: Fructose, Dutched Cocoa (Processed with Alkali), Hydrogenated Coconut and Palm Kernel Oil, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Modified Potato Starch, Gelatin, Monoglycerides, Acetylated Monoglycerides, Sodium Caseinate (Milk), Artificial Flavor, Salt, Sodium Alginate.

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Cook the Book: 'Endangered Recipes' by Lari Robling

When I was a kid my grandpa would take me fishing at my great-uncle's Christmas Tree farm, where there was a pond. He would fly-fish while I would fish with a bamboo pole. Once I caught 5 little sunfishes which we took back to the house, he cleaned them and fried them in a skillet. They were delicious and I was exhausted but proud of myself!

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In Videos: Michael Pollan on 'The Colbert Report'

I don't see Michael Pollan "politely taking a sip" of the soda- I see him sniffing it though. Where does he take the sip?

On the breastfeeding, the point isn't whether mothers who fed formula are to be blamed or shamed, the point is that at every level of the "food pyramid", from breastmilk to soft drinks to cheese, we've been sold a bill of goods by those who stand to make money in the processing of foods. Eating whole foods that we've grown ourselves (or bought from someone who did) and cooking it ourselves makes no money for the processors. So they told us that processed and packaged and bleached and fake were healthier and safer for us- sometimes lying outright so that they could make money. And our government participated in this. Thomas Jefferson would say it is our duty as Americans to stand up and protest against abuses by the government against its own people (or any people). That's why we are Americans now and not British :)

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Cook the Book: 'Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating'

Mark Bittman taught me that the way to eat healthier is to travel around Spain with a vegetarian babe!

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Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate

My mom's chocolate pudding cake, warm from the oven

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Cook the Book: 'Giada's Kitchen'

Alfredo with crabmeat, Old Bay seasoning and garlic

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Hungry for Paris'

A little Turkish place called Arda's, down the street from the Hotel Langlois. Arda himself served us our Salade Bergeres; he was about 5 or 6 years old!

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Crazy Craigslist Cookie Ad

Marcel Proust is alive and well and living in New York Cty.

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Cook the Book: Chocolate Brioche with Chocolate Chips

I have noticed that a lot of recipes that call for cocoa say to use the Dutch-processed kind. Why is that? Can the natural unsweetened kind be substituted? Many thanks for the recipe.

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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Epiphany'

A madeleine dipped in bittersweet chocolate~ which would cause me to have an epiphany similar to Marcel Proust's, thereby attaining immortality.

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Delta Catfish Farmers at the Crossroads

The death of catfish farming may be a tragedy of almost Biblical proportions for the people who make their living off of it, but it's not a tragedy for the catfish or for those of us who eat farm-raised catfish, who may not know that the catfish, like other feedlot raised animals (cows, pigs, chickens) are forced to eat an unnatural diet (corn & soybeans) and live in an unnatural environment (tightly packed in with many others of their kind, forced to live and eat in others waste). Both of these unnatural conditions require that the farmer also feed their animals antibiotics and hormones to keep them alive under such stressful and disease-ridden environments long enough for them to reach kill-weight. It is an unsustainable and deadly practice, both for the catfish (or pig, cow or chicken) and for those who eat them, as we ingest the antibiotics and hormones along with the meat. THIS is the tragedy of Biblical proportions: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16wwln-lede-t.html

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