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Win a $1,200 Dinner for Two at Citymeals-on-Wheels 2008 Fund-Raiser

two eggs and a fork
plus one butter hot pan, cooks
up quick one omelet

Spring-Inspired Ice Cream Sauces: Raspberry Sauce

i think raspberries are a late summer fruit - really being ripe in july/august/september. although, i guess that puts them in season for the south american harvest season right now.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Heritage Smoked Ham

Swiss cheese and mustard on raisin bread.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

What if Local Isn't Tastier?

Miracle Sour Berry

WOW-- "Mr. Grier's guests were about to go under the influence of miracle fruit, a slightly tart West African berry with a strange property: For about an hour after you eat it, everything sour tastes sweet..."

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117522147769754148-lMyQjAxMDE3NzM1MDIzMjAxWj.html

Is Kobe beef unethical?

I just read the article in Gourmet - it might make you rethink Kobe beef:

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2007/12/kobe_beef_estabrook?currentPage=all

Traditional Japanese producers, Blackmore said, raise their 1,600-pound cattle in highly confined areas. “From the time they are a week old until they are three and a half years old, these steers are commonly kept in a lean-to behind someone’s house,” said Blackmore, “where they get bored and go off their feed. Their gut stops working. The best way to start their gut working again is to give them a bottle of beer.

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