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1. Elizabeth Madrigal - 8/8 - Gather.com : Gather.com
Sustainability blogger, community activist and an artist, I am passionate about what I believe and
can be annoyingly cheerful and enthusiastic at times.
Unless you've lived in Mexico or were lucky enough to have Mexican friends who knew how to cook,
it is unlikely that most of you have ever tasted this wonderful meal-in-a-soup. It is made with
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In the mid-1960's the U.S. Surgeon General announced that smoking was bad for our health and
eventually millions of smokers quit or simply died. Mad Men, a TV show set in the 1950's, perfectly
illustrates
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2. Polar bears are not actually white, but slightly yellow compared to the snow and ice they live in. I
realized this when I was trying to paint one and it looked 'wrong'. They are also
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I am sick of gifting or receiving fruit cake, so I am sharing a few recipes for which you will get
'encore' requests. With dried fruits you can marinate for a few weeks and the fruit will
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Sadly most people don't recognize the onset of mental decline in the people closest to them or are
reluctant to mention it. When Mom can no longer distinguish between the scents of cinnamon and
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3. As I am one of those people who loves cucumbers, I wanted to offer this recipe.nnJapanese
Cucumber SaladnnIngredients:nn2 cucumbersnn2 Tablespoons soy saucenn2 Tablespoons Dulse (a
sea vegetable from the
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After living an hour and a half away from an active volcano for fourteen years, I finally committed to
go on a day trip to Mount Saint Helens. Lots of family and friends had visited from the East
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They are in every family. The drunk and the amateur genealogist, hopefully not one and the same.
The person who maintains the family tree and occasionally is generally ignored by the others
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4. My godmother sent me a diary for my birthday when I was nine years old. My sister never admitted
breaking the lock but when I confronted her she quickly blamed my mother. I ran downstairs and
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Who would have imagined that our four-year-old granddaughter would ask, "Can I have this,
Grandma?". She'd discovered it hidden for safe-keeping in the Moroccan box on my bureau.
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Foreign Country Recipes
Ah, yes, I was also as appalled as some of you are that my husband and son were eager to attend a
Novillada, or 'un evento' not quite the major league for bullfighters, but required exposure for
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5. My friends and I have a rather informal book-swapping habit, and it has been wonderful to read
things that I would never have discovered on my own. Recently, a friend gave me a book she'd
finished
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My daughter tells me not to buy non-organic milk, as the growth hormones in there are not good for
cancer surivors. I bought some seeds for a Mexican cooking herb (Epazote) also used for tea and
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A sense of dread descended upon me when I checked my calendar yesterday. Tuesdays are
generally pretty benign, but three months ago I had scheduled a dental appointment on the off
chance that I might
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When my mother was dying in a hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, where I was born, my sister and
6. I were allowed to visit her. My father planned to drive us to Cape Ann in northern Massachusetts
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