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    My yerba mate gourd.
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    Tea Tuesdays: South America Runs On Yerba Mate

    Mar 17, 2015
    Legend has it the moon gifted this drink to the Guaraní people of South America. It was banned by the colonial government. The Jesuits made it their most profitable crop. Oh, and the pope drinks it.
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    Butter is inspected inside a creamery in Dublin, Ireland, during the first quarter of the 20th century.
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    To Eat Authentically Irish This St. Patrick's Day, Go For The Butter

    Mar 17, 2015
    From 3,000-year-old peat bogs to 19th-century Brazil to modern foodies, the love of Irish butter has spread far. The secret to Ireland's deliciously rich, creamy butter is in its rolling green hills.
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    Customers line up, waiting to order from Chef Chane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He runs his restaurant like a fiefdom, dispensing food and insults majestically from the kitchen, which doubles as a serving station.
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    Meet Chef Chane, Ethiopia's Version Of The Infamous 'Soup Nazi'

    Mar 17, 2015
    Like the famously curt broth ladler on Seinfeld, Addis Ababa's Chef Chane is known for serving up both delectable cuisine and insults. He says he learned his vaunted culinary skills in royal kitchens.
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    Best of the City Bonus: Good better best

    Mar 16, 2015

    To find the best of something, you have to look for it — examine the candidates, weigh their merits, reach a conclusion. Here, then, four crawls that do just that

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    After this photo was taken, Robert chewed on his bone for hours.
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    Sandwich Monday: Bone-In Pork Chop Sandwich

    Mar 16, 2015
    For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try a Chicago sandwich classic from Jim's Original. They leave the bone in — for flavor, and for danger.
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    Looks Matter: A Century Of Iconic Food Packaging

    Mar 16, 2015
    Many of the boxes, bags and bottles that contain our edibles were once groundbreaking — both in their design and in how they changed our perception of what's inside. Designers tell us their favorites.
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    The International Cocoa Quarantine Greenhouse in Reading.
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    The Fate Of The World's Chocolate Depends On This Spot In Rural England

    Mar 15, 2015
    Cocoa is unusually susceptible to disease. Every year, a third of the crop is destroyed, even as the appetite for chocolate grows. That's why the world needs the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre.
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    Pi Day Isn't Just Magical, It's Mathematics. And There's Pie!

    Mar 14, 2015
    Math geeks are excited about 3-14-15, this year's Pi Day. The San Francisco Exploratorium will celebrate with a pizza-pi-dough-tossing contest, a pi parade and special pie. Mmmm, pie. Or is it pi?
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    Some grape vines on the Masumoto farm are almost a hundred years old. Mas Masumoto's father purchased the farm after World War II, but he says it's possible that his grandparents, who were itinerant immigrant farmworkers, worked on this farm and pruned t
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    The Family Peach Farm That Became A Symbol Of The Food Revolution

    Mar 14, 2015
    Heirloom peach trees, and an essay about them, turned one California farm into a landmark of local food. It's now the scene of another unconventional choice: a daughter's return to take the helm.
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    What kind of red wine pairs well with Chinese takeout?
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    Off The Menu: Realness Is A Matter Of Taste

    Mar 14, 2015
    A new documentary about the spread of Asian-American cuisine got us wondering about how we remix pieces of culture — and how we police them for authenticity.
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    Pi plates, T-shirts and other retail items are helping Pi Day supporters take their math-themed celebration mainstream.
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    Making Pies For Pi Day: Think Inside The Circle

    Mar 13, 2015
    As math lovers know, it's almost Pi Day. And what better way to celebrate than by rolling out the dough? An NPR editor known for her experimental baking shares some of her favorite recipes.
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    <strong>Icy planet</strong>: bottom of a glass containing half and half, water, food coloring. <strong>Moons</strong>: silica gel, food coloring. <strong>Stars</strong>: sugar, cinnamon, cumin.
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    Behold! The Cosmos Created From The Contents Of A Kitchen

    Mar 13, 2015
    From spices, flour, milk, water and food coloring, a photographer creates startlingly realistic-looking images of space. These photos are convincing enough to impress an astrophysicist.
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    "There's a lot of stress involved. We have 14,000 pounds of stainless steel arriving in two days," Thor Cheston of Right Proper Brewing Company says. "It's a lot of fun though."
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    A Craft Beer Tax Battle Is Brewing On Capitol Hill

    Mar 12, 2015
    Craft beer is a rapidly-growing industry and Washington lawmakers have noticed. Two proposed bills would lower the federal excise tax for small brewers.
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    Lazy Magnolia's Southern Pecan Brown Ale is produced in Kiln, Miss.
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    Southerners Are Getting Creative With Their Favorite Nut: Pecan

    Mar 12, 2015
    The pecan has become the latest obsession of Southern farmers, chefs and craft breweries. They're giving the buttery nut new opportunities to shine in the form of oil, flour and even beer.
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    A lunch served by the Yarmouth, Maine, School Department on Sept. 26, 2014, featured Sloppy Joe's made with Maine beef and local beets, carrots, apples and potato salad. More than 80 percent of Maine schools said they served local foods in a survey condu
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    Why Some Schools Serve Local Food And Others Can't (Or Won't)

    Mar 11, 2015
    A survey found that 36 percent of U.S. public schools bought food from local farmers during two recent school years. But a slightly greater number of schools served no local food at all.
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    The cuisines of the classical world made use of cumin both as a flavoring and a drug.
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    From Ancient Sumeria To Chipotle Tacos, Cumin Has Spiced Up The World

    Mar 11, 2015
    Cumin has been popular since the dawn of written history: It's the only English word that can be traced directly back to Sumerian. Since then it has insinuated itself into cuisines around the world.
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    How Big Sugar Steered Research On A 'Tooth Decay Vaccine'

    Mar 11, 2015
    Though it never panned out, the sugar industry backed research to develop a vaccine to fight tooth decay, old industry documents reveal. Researchers say the goal was to deflect efforts to limit sugar.
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    Robert Fortune was a 19th-century Scottish botanist who helped the East India Trading Company swipe the secrets of tea production from China.
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    Tea Tuesdays: The Scottish Spy Who Stole China's Tea Empire

    Mar 10, 2015
    In the mid-1800s, Britain was a global superpower with a big weakness for tea, all of which came from China. But a botanist with a talent for espionage helped Britain swipe the secrets of tea.
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    Ultimate Veggie Burger
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    'Test Kitchen': How To Make Vegetarian Dishes Pop With A Little Umami

    Mar 10, 2015
    Cooking with plant foods naturally high in compounds called glutamates can stimulate the same taste receptors that meat does. America's Test Kitchen explains in The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook.
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    Jeff Potter feeds roadkill pheasant to his kids, Lucy and Henry.
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    The Accidental Hunter: For One Outdoorsman, Roadkill Is His Only Red Meat

    Mar 10, 2015
    When a car hits and kills a deer or other creature, Jeff Potter swoops in and recovers the meat, then feeds it to friends and family. No one has ever gotten sick, he says.
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    Circadian Surprise: How Our Body Clocks Help Shape Our Waistlines

    Mar 10, 2015
    We have different clocks in virtually every organ of our bodies. But living against the clock — eating late at night or working overnight — may set the stage for weight gain and chronic disease.
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    The food truck sells about 100 My Little Pony Burgers a day at festivals.
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    Pigeon, Parakeet And Pony: Amsterdam Food Truck Serves Maligned Meat

    Mar 09, 2015
    The Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animal, a food truck and specialty food provider, is trying to change attitudes toward "edible" animals in Holland. They're doing it one My Little Pony Burger at a time.
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    Intern Jeanette is not having Funajeanette.
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    Sandwich Monday: Pizza-Flavored Salad Dressing

    Mar 09, 2015
    For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try Funagrette "Cheesy Pizza" flavored salad dressing. We never thought a salad could make us feel so bad about our eating habits.
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    The Salt
    FDA tests have turned up residues suggesting a few dairy farmers are illegally using antibiotics.
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    FDA Tests Turn Up Dairy Farmers Breaking The Law On Antibiotics

    Mar 08, 2015
    Random tests of milk reveal that a few farmers are treating dairy cows with antibiotics that aren't supposed to be used on them. The FDA is now considering tighter controls to prevent such practices.
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    A "ballet" of Brussels sprouts dazzles at the <a href="http://www.urwhatupost.com/">Food Porn Index</a>, a site that tracks which foods are trending in social media part of an effort to heighten the appeal of healthy eating.
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    Voluptuous Veg: Can Food Porn Seed Lust For Healthy Eating?

    Mar 06, 2015
    Tempting-looking spoonfuls of chocolate are plentiful online. Beautiful Brussels sprouts? Not so much. A campaign aims to boost the number of these images and whet our appetites for healthy foods.

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