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Tell the truth. How many times have you clicked on an article titled "Nature's 5 Miracle Foods" or "10 Worst Drive-Thru Choices" and been disappointed to read that, surprise, strawberries...

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It's getting prettier outside, in case you haven't noticed: in fact, this is one of the earliest and warmest springs I can remember.  So, assuming you started your warm-weather seeds abou...

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Joining other grocery chains, Safeway and Giant, two of Maryland's biggest grocers, announced this week that they will no longer sell "pink slime" beef, The Baltimore Sun reports. Fi...

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In a small town in a country that's about as meat-centric as they come, tofu gets no respect.  (Try ordering it in a restaurant and see what kinds of stares your friends give.) But t...

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I had visited the Le Creuset store half a dozen times over a span of several years before I finally purchased the pot I'd been eyeing all along.  I gulped, signed the receipt and brought ...

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This time of year, home gardeners fight to quell a rising tide of internal panic with every weekend that passes unsowed.  Willy Loman's obsessive lines start sounding more and more reason...

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"Oh, milkman, milkman," she says, "You can come and live at my house anytime!" As a child, I was always curious about that line from The Patchwork Cat, and intrigued by the illustrat...

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She shuts the water off and reaches, fingers dripping, for the what isn't there. She thinks it will be wherever hers is -- above, to the right, on the wall, vertical, horizontal.  She gla...