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Omaha – Most Restaurants per Capita?
It’s testament to the dynamic city we live in that Omaha makes a lot of ‘Best of’ lists. Best place to live, to work, to drink, to raise kids, to go to the zoo, to start over, to sing a
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Creativity as a Spiritual Business Practice
“It is not change that is painful, it is the resistance to change that is painful” – Anonymous Everything changes; That is perhaps the only constant in life, but to a business, change must be part of a plan, and
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Still We Rise: Celebrating Omaha’s Food Scene
Creativity is an act of problem solving, defined by how well the immutable constraints of the problem are met, mitigated or massaged. Innovation – real innovation – is different; it is the ability to change the parameters altogether. Omaha’s restaurant
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Pickle or Die
Long ago, people ate what they grew, and grew what they ate. If they couldn’t gather or grow it, so it is said, they didn’t eat it. If they didn’t eat, they died, so they stayed busy. If they caught
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The Ethnically Enhanced Pantry
Define Ethnic: The categories of culinary ethnicity in this article are mine, and are a very general clumsy way to clump an entire globe and time-line of human eating into a very small space. The clumps and delineations are not
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Bacon: The Ultimate Ingredient
From jam to donuts, cupcakes to macaroni and cheese, to even Vodka, bacon is everywhere in food and spirits. Bacon has an amazing affect on the people on nearly everyone and in recent years bacon has influenced many culinary dishes.
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The Top Dishes & Drinks of 2011
Welcome to the 2011 Menu of Menus. The menu items featured here were the top vote-getters in an online poll of Omaha’s top dishes and drinks in 11 different categories. Those are Best Salad, Best Comfort Food, Best Entrée, Most
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The Pathos of Cooking
Romance, comfort, grief — food triggers emotions in all of us If we agree that cooking is a method of persuasion, of dialogue, then we can explore the formal Aristotelian components of persuasion — ethos, logos and pathos — to
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BBQ Review: Nine BBQ Restaurants Duke it out to be Omaha’s best
For this issue’s food review we held another one of our food competitions — this one to answer the oft-asked question, “Who has the best barbecue in the area?” Barbecue was brought in from nine of the best slow-cooking, meat-extravanganza,
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Omaha’s Largest Pizza Review, Ever – Part 2
For our food review this issue we revisited an event we held last year, appropriately named “Omaha’s Largest Pizza Review, Ever.” We gathered nearly 20 of Omaha’s pizza places and invited the public to share in the pizza extravaganza. The
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