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Newspaper Features One of My Recipes

As I’ve told you before, I worked with the healthy-food innovators at Santa Barbara’s Backyard Bowls to create some new menu items. (More coming soon, too!) The local paper there, the Santa Barbara News-Press, did a nice writeup on Backyard Bowls illustrated with one of my creations, called Spartan Muesli. I thought I’d share the picture with you. (Also: If you’re ever in Santa Barbara, make sure you try Backyard Bowls . It’s an incredible experience. Tell them Amira sent you!)

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Last Apples of the Season!

I was buying apples at the farmer’s market Sunday (as usual), when my favorite apple farmer informed me that I wouldn’t be seeing him until next fall (I try to eat seasonally and only locally grown fruits and vegetables). To my dismay, he said that the apple season is over in this area (San Francisco Bay Area). I did the only natural thing one can do; I bought more apples, of course! I ended up with a half of a case of fujis and pink ladies. Walking home for almost a mile with 22 pounds of apples in an awkward box, plus another 15 pounds of other produce in my basket hanging from my shoulder was a challenge (all part of the health plan though). I made it home and, although I was sad about the apple season ending, I was ecstatic to see so many apples in my kitchen. And what best way to celebrate the last harvest of apple season than to bake and eat lots of homemade and whole grain apple pie? I wish I could share some with

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The Rock Crusher

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Haggis, Coming to the United States?

Full Scottish breakfast, with lovely dark, lumpy haggis. [ Flickr: Tuftronic10000 ] Today, the BBC reports that the United States may begin to loosen the imported meat restrictions that ban the Scottish haggis —a legendary national dish of sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, with spices and oats, all boiled in a sheep’s stomach. Incidentally, the news comes just in time for Burns Night, an annual celebration of the poetry of Robert Burns, at which haggis takes center stage—per tradition, presented with a bagpipe fanfare and saluted with Burns poem “The Address To A Haggis.” We’d imagine he’d be pleased.

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Help For Haiti

As the news continues to pour in about the shocking loss of life (estimated in the tens of thousands now) and wide-spread destruction following the quake in Haiti this week, I hope you Wreckies will consider donating to one of the many relief organizations providing aid there. Unfortunately there are a lot of scammers popping up, though, so do be careful where you give. Charity Navigator has a great list of trustworthy organizations here , which includes our previously featured Doctors Without Borders . For an easy way to donate to the Red Cross, you can text “Haiti” to 90999 and $10 will be added to your next phone bill. (Over $1 million raised this way as of this writing.) I know a lot of you can’t afford to give much. That’s Ok! As we saw from the Charity Countdown, it only takes each of us giving a little to accomplish a lot together. So let’s give what we can, spread the word, and say a prayer for this poor country and the heroes working there on the ground. (Our Doctors Without Borders First Giving page is still up, and there’s no minimum donation required. Only have a buck

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Saint Cupcake in DailyCandy

It’s frustrating when there’s Blogger issues. Grr! Anyway, I wrote a whole post about this and it was eaten unceremoniously by blogger so I am just going to cut and paste the original source. (Sorry.) This came in today from DailyCandy : January 8, 2010 Give Saints Saint Cupcake Delivers Nationwide Sorry to break the news: You’re not God. But people will sing your praises when you serve them Saint Cupcakes. The Portland-based bakery’s goodies are now taking flight. Just head to the site and specify the amount (in multiples of three), flavors, and toppings. Soon you’ll receive a kit that includes the moist baked plain cuppies, frosting, and sprinkles, along with an icing wand and decorating tips. So it wouldn’t really be a sin to claim them as your own. Favorite combos include carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut, vanilla chocolate chip with hot fudge icing and rainbow quinns, and chocolate with mint buttercream and white jimmies. For the vegans: chocolate or vanilla cake and frosting. Of course, such heavenly treats are chockful of calories. But even you only live once. Available online at saintcupcake.com . To see the goods up close, check out our gallery . I had to look up

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Veggie Might: Newsflash! Scientists Getting Closer to Lab-grown Meat

Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian. The illustration is borrowed from the uber-talented Natalie Dee . A group of scientists in the Netherlands, funded by the Dutch government and a sausage maker, are getting close to viable lab-grown meat replacement. According to Sunday’s Telegraph , they “have created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it.” The Sunday Times reports that while, “the scientists have not tasted it…they believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years’ time.” In April 2008, PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk issued a challenge to Scientists Everywhere : figure out how to grow meat in the lab, and we’ll stop actin’ the fool all over the place and give you a million dollars*. Turns out that Newkirk’s gauntlet toss, which came just weeks after the In Vitro Meat Symposium in Norway, was unnecessary. Scientists Everywhere were already on it , driven by their own innate “what happens if …

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FOOD BLOGGER CONNECT 09

FOOD FOR THOUGHT, SOMETHING TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO Who among us wasn’t both nervous and excited? Scared to finally be revealing ourselves, exposing ourselves naked in front of others, wondering if our real up-close-and-personal self was the same as our internet persona. Nervous to be meeting those food bloggers whom we so admire, the friends we tease and laugh with, those talented cooks and writers who share information and tips with us, who leave us drooling in front of jaw-dropping stunning food photos, wondering if our ideal image of whom they are and what they are like will be shattered into a million shards, fragile like a crystal decanter. Yet so excited! Sure in our hearts that the friends we’ve made, those distant friends, will be all that we have expected and waited for, that meeting them face to face will simply confirm the ideas we have formed in our heads and solidify an already strong connection. I finally got to hug my twin sistah Deeba! And then it happened. Tumbling into it head first, I found myself standing in the middle of the London City…

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Is Millennium the Best Restaurant In the World?

On a recent visit to San Francisco, I enjoyed the best meal and dining experience I’ve had at a restaurant in a long time—it happened at Millennium . From the mouth-watering food to the impeccable service, the innovation and attention to detail at Millennium is unparalleled. I’ve eaten at Millennium many times over the years, and it’s always great. But unlike most visionary restaurants I’ve enjoyed, Millennium just keeps getting better and better. Millennium used to be a tiny restaurant located in some vaguely unfashionable hotel in the not-so-fashionable part of the San Francisco Civic Center. It’s been a few years since it moved to a nicer and trendier neighborhood in the outskirts of Union Square. One of the many things I love about Millennium is that everything feels real, authentic and down to earth. And yet, seeing, smelling and eating the stunningly beautiful, organic and delicious plant-based food is out of this world. Millennium strives to provide the most enticing and culturally diverse gourmet food, by taking you all the way around the world in one meal through the use of exotic spices, herbs and farm fresh produce. Millennium’s menu is based upon the seasonality of locally grown produce, but you can find a few signature dishes that are standard …

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Free cupcakes tomorrow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Seacost Online brings news of free cupcakes tomororw, November 7th, from 1 pm to 4 pm at The Old Stove Bake Shoppe in Portsmouth, New Hampshire! Plus what fun flavors they are debuting… The shop will introduce four new gourmet cupcake flavors: candy corn, death by chocolate, salted caramel and monkey bread. Two hundred customers will receive free their choice of one of the four new flavors on a first-come, first-served basis. There is a limit of one per person. “It fits with our style,” Mugherini said of the new cupcakes. “We’re always making up new flavors. It makes people smile when they see candy corn or monkey bread.” Mugherini’s personal favorite, monkey bread, is similar to the traditional cinnamon pastry, but with a cream cheese frosting. The candy corn cupcakes are made of a light butterscotch cake with vanilla buttercream colored orange, yellow and white. Death by chocolate is made with dark chocolate cake with mini chocolate chips, decorated with a dark chocolate buttercream with a chocolate drizzle. Made of vanilla brown sugar cake, the salted caramel cupcakes will have a caramel buttercream frosting topped with Himalayan

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