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Fall Food Memories: Thai Pumpkin Bisque Recipe
Why is comfort food so popular at many restaurants nowadays? Because a big bowl of mac and cheese is more than just a way to fuel your body, it’s also a time machine that takes you back to your childhood.
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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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Finding the Food: Valley, Nebraska
Recently, I have spent a few days looking for a town or area to write about for this quarter’s article, and, surprisingly, it was more difficult than usual. Many times when driving around the back roads and through the towns
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The Dumpster: It’s a Wrap
I bought a 16MB Flash card for my camera. The card itself is about the size of a Cheez-It. It was packaged in a little plastic box, which was wrapped in a four-inch plastic bubble, sealed in a plastic hanger
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Food Guilt: Eat it now, apologize never
Recently, I had a casual potluck dinner with some friends. It’s a regular group, and we know each other pretty well. As we were setting out the dishes, I noticed there was a lot of apologizing. “Sorry, this isn’t organic.”
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Finding the Food: Lincoln Highway and Elkhorn
My latest adventure to find pockets of food outside of the Omaha area didn’t bring me far away from town. A short jaunt down the historic cobblestone Lincoln Highway brought me to the familiar old main street of Elkhorn. The
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Allez Cuisine! Heirloom Tomato & Fresh Mozzarella Tower Recipe
Yes, I know some of my friends think I’m a little extreme in my devotion to the joys of local farmer’s markets. People stopping by my office on a cold and blustery February morning, may find me staring longingly at
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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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