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Can Pepper Save Wine Grapes?

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Fancy Fast Food

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Bottoms Up for the Burgess Shale Centennial

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How to Toast Hemingway’s 110th Birthday

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The Recession is Making You Fatter

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Terrible Terroir

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The Best Fish and Chips in Ireland

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Land of the Lost Food Traditions, Part III—the Midwest and Southwest

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Why Modern Foods Hijack Our Brains

The history of the nuptial pastry is even stranger than these modern rituals suggests.

The Strange History of the Wedding Cake

How the traditional treat came to be

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Land of the Lost Food Traditions, Part II - The South

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Summer Slim Jim Scarcity Leads to Stockpiling

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The Culture of Obesity

From the runway, to the office, and now stored away in women’s dresser draws, pantyhose have gone through several life cycles.

50 Years of Pantyhose

Love them or hate them, the once-ubiquitous women’s accessory was a revolutionary invention that helped transform women’s fashion

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Land of the Lost Food Traditions, Part I — the Northeast

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Piranha Recipes From an Extreme Angler

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Ben Franklin: Patriot, Foodie

As we prepare to stuff ourselves full with corn dogs this weekend, it’s a good time to look back at an original American patriot’s food predilections

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What’s in Your Lunch Box? Part 5 — the 80s Through Today

The first Great Six-Day Bicycle Ride Across Iowa was in 1973. It was created by journalists and bike enthusiasts John Karras and Don Kaul.

The Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa

Now in its 37th year, RAGBRAI is the longest, largest and oldest touring bike ride in the world

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Welsh Cakes: Not a Scone, Not a Cookie

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