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    Origin of the Species: Chili

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse.   Charles Darwin, I think, would have appreciated chili con carne. Turns…

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    Crazy About Cookies

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse.   Are we about to be gripped by a cookie frenzy? This…

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    Swweeeeet! Fall Vegetables

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse.   Some time in the next few weeks, we can expect to…

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    Some Like It Hot

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. Some like it hot – spicy, that is. One of my faithful…

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    Better with Bacon

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. Where’s all that bacon going? The average American eats 18 pounds of…

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    The Real Mediterranean Diet

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. What about a completely different approach to meals, one that makes them…

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    Find Your Thrill on Blueberry Hill

    From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. When I was growing up on the farm in Illinois, blueberries were more of an occasional treat. My grandmother and my mother would occasionally make…

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    Ode to the Mighty Cod

    To view the photos and comment online from your email, please click on the title. We owe a lot to the mighty cod. I just finished its biography: Cod by Mark Kurlansky. I found out a lot about the state…

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    A New Take on “Sea” Food

    To view the photos and comment online from your email, please click on the title. How would you like to discover something that’s a great source of vitamins and minerals, contains a variety of antioxidants, and provides fiber and polysaccharides…