Oct 07, 2009 -
By Caryn Rousseau
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
10/07/2009
While in Miami on vacation, Nancy Tringali Piho's 2-year-old son grabbed a piece of octopus from the table's ceviche platter. "He just couldn't get enough of it," she said. "All the people in the restaurant were turning around.
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Oct 04, 2009 -
By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: October 2, 2009
There shall be no cupcakes. No chocolate cake and no carrot cake. According to New York City’s latest regulations, not even zucchini bread makes the cut.
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Aug 24, 2009 -
It's hard to age gracefully as a supermodel. But at 43, Cindy Crawford has her coping strategies firmly in place – a mixture of acceptance and defiance. "I have cellulite.
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Aug 05, 2009 -
Non-Organic Organic Food
by Jim Hightower
When it comes to a healthy diet, I am not a purist. Too late for that because I grew up eating such culinary concoctions as toasted sandwiches constructed of Spam, white bread and that oddly orange, oddly spongy cheeselike stuff known as Velveeta.
As an adult, I even have been irresponsible enough to serve as a taster, judge and promoter of Spam creations that were served at a now-defunct annual event held in my town of Austin, Texas.
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Jun 05, 2009 -
Prison blues: States slimming down inmate meals
By SHANNON McCAFFREY
ATLANTA (AP) — The recession is hitting home for inmates, too: Some cash-strapped states are taking aim at prison menus.
Georgia prisoners already didn't get lunch on the weekends, and the Department of Corrections recently eliminated the midday meal on Fridays, too. Ohio may drop weekend breakfasts and offer brunch instead.
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Apr 27, 2009 -
Agency is so understaffed, it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food
Tom Costello Published April 26, 2009 by NBC News
The Food and Drug Administration may be the only federal agency that both political parties agree is in desperate need of an overhaul.
The FDA is so understaffed it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food.President Barack Obama is promising action, though progress has been slow in the first 100 days. His choice to head the FDA - Dr.
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Apr 25, 2009 -
Look! There is a buttloaf! Yep right there for everyone to see.
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Mar 10, 2009 -
David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding - Posted on Mon, Mar 02, 2009, 12:37 pm PST
Eating out invariably raises a number of tricky questions: sit-down or drive-thru? Burgers or pizza? Thin or stuffed crust?
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Dec 18, 2008 -
One more day after this ladies and gents! Not really a question per se, but you get the gist. ;)
Describe your perfect holiday dinner...
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Jan 29, 2009 -
I have to say I think I made a really wise decision to read the book, ‘Dead until Dark,’ after the first season of True Blood aired. Because I now understand the grumblings about the series changes, Alan Ball made. In this post I want to discuss the character changes on the book versus the characters on the series.
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