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Cool as a Cucumber
My garden is about to produce a big crop of cucumbers, and I want to put them to good use. After all, cucumbers are among the human race’s oldest cultivated vegetables – technically, a fruit. The Oxford Companion of Food…
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You Don’t Know Beans
Growing up, I never would have expected to sing the praises of beans. But, of late, I’ve come to admire the lowly pods of protein and carbohydrates first domesticated in South America 10,000 years ago. Compare them with a hamburger.…
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Watermelon: No Longer Just an Athletic Event
There was a time when my only questions about watermelon involved which one of my pals had the injector to get the vodka or rum into the big green melon. Or, having achieved this milestone, who could spit the seeds…
