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In which country would you (a Hound & more) like to retire?
of South America,own property and live there. Fluent french and english won’t serve enough needs and my vietnamese is weak,leaving out the north of Vietnam where the climate wouldn’t kill me in a week. Also have a house...
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What does your garden grow?
I’m doing my biggest garden yet this year, in a coastal Maine community garden. I have either planted or have seedlings ready for: Paste toms- opalka, polish linguisa, martino’s roma Slicing toms- stupice, tigerella...
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blue mesa grill in addison
using varying and often dissimilar ingredients, from the primarily seafood dishes along the coastal areas to the beef and cabrito reigning cuisine in the interior high plains to the proliferation of vegetables and fruits further...
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Ivy
not with restraunteurs but with governments whose duty it is to control the amount of effluent in our coastal waters. That said however, I would avoid any shellfish that comes from the North Sea or English Channel, the mixture of...
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Mexican Rice
common. Having eaten a lot of rice like that, I was surprised to learn some years ago that the preferred rice for a true Spanish paella is a short grain, similar to the Italian arborio. In Ecuador, rice is a staple in the coastal...
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The unbearable sameness of potatoes
Walla or Maui. It’s not just the breed, it’s the soil, water and climate. What a great opportunity to get to know the potato better!
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Food in Every Country
the usual three meals a day and due to rich agricultural lands and many regions with warmer climates we tend to favor salads at lunch. You know, for a concise write up covering a vast area, it wasn’t so far off. It might be a...
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Food myths--or are they?
of water – I think this really depends on where you are. I easily get through 3-4 litres a day, but I am in a coastal town, where our average temperature is 27 degrees. When I drink a litre or less, I notice an immediate...
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The documentary, "Food, Inc." Seen it?
and again there is no option of growing coca in the arid coastal lands. Further... lets get down to the nitty gritty... the farmers in Michigan are not being decimated because the U.S. is importing Peruvian Asparagus. The stuff...
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"Only in San Francisco" Restaurants
into the harbor, again is nothing unique for many coastal big cities. And you can barely see the Golden Gate. If you are a tourist would you go home and tell your friends that you had a great view of the Bay Bridge? You’d...
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Kroepoek... or why is "Chinese" food different in various countries?
at home. But the fact is that food from H.K. and Canton/Guangzhou (and probably the southern coastal provinces) had more variety of vegetables, fruits and plenty of meat due to location and warmer climate to grow crops. Whereas...
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Cuisine de Terroir in middle America
I’ve lived other places, too, coastal important happening places where we measured the strength of our economies against the economies of entire other nations and of our institutions of higher learning by the number of...
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"Chow Microclimates"
great term...bbq might be very regionalized; SC, Eastern and Western NC, etc. I recall seeing some kind of egg foo young sandwich; only served in St Louis..sort of a micro climate.
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What do Chowhounds do for a living (besides eat of course)?
This will be interesting. Will it be allowed? Agricultural and ecological anthropologist in international ag research center working on from climate change, the Amazon Basin, and environmental policy; to the impacts of “fair...
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Have you ever lived overseas?
I lived in Coastal Ecuador as a Peace Corps Volunteer for 2 years and 4 months from '88 to '90. I learned to cook on a 2-burner propane camp stove. I experienced many dishes that I’d never seen before in the States: Guinea...
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