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    Where can I get real, & I mean real, vine-ripened tomatoes in Charlotte?

    'll be here when the time is right. My beef is that, during the peak of tomato season, I’ll go to farmers markets, and still find only the gassed tomatoes for sale, and touted as if they were the real thing you’d pick...

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    lake merritt

    in a cruvinet which automatically gasses the bottle after tapping off the pour. I also understand they smoke some of their own meats in the restaurant using H20 smokers on the top of the stove and venting the smoke out through...

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    They're still green.......

    and “speed ripened” in a garbage bag. The plastic traps the natural gasses given off by the fruit and will yield ripe bananas in a few days instead of weeks.

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    Kitchen trash bins (SimpleHuman and others)

    We have the very expensive slim butterfly model. I got it as part of a charity raffle. It works very well and contains odor exceptionally well. In fact, we sometimes wi off gassed a little. We do use the special bags (my husband...

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    Queens Chowhound Dinner #4 Laifood in Flushing

    a search for "mischa gass"...

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    Should yogurt taste carbonated?

    , expand. Some yogurts and similar fermented products (kefir; maslanka) have label statements advising of this. Kept long after its best before date, the fermentation gasses may actually force the seal open. You will likely have...

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    Finestkind Fish Market

    Say it ain’t so...Someone is praising supermarket seafood??? Frozen, color added, chemical added, Carbon monoxide gassed...that’s just for starters! They don’t even have to label things the same way small...

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    squirrels attack chiles//what to do with green habaneros?

    I am a first time grower of habanero peppers. The little plant in a pot went wild – it’s loaded with peppers. The excitement is mounting at my house . . . but the damn squirrels keep knocking the fullsize but still...

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    Vacuum sealed, how long will sauterne keep?

    I have a Rieussec that I want to open tonight, but we can’t polish off the whole bottle..with a vacuum sealer will it keep over a few weeks? Should I open the smaller bottle of ice wine instead?

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    One Meal In Alabama

    's amazing steaks so I pulled off the freeway and began tracking toward their door. My waiter from my college days walked up to the table and I nearly wept.Nick’s must be a pretty good job,I inwardly reckoned. Nick’s is...

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    Help! Produce storage question

    was pretty detailed regarding the various gases produce give off to offend each other. IIRC, there was a long chart that showed which fruits and vegetables should be kept apart. I should have ripped the damn thing out because I...

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    Fresh Fish in Burlington, VT

    Not any options. I would suggest Price Chopper on Route 7 (So. Burlington) for a wide selection and reasonable prices and Ray’s in Essex Jct. (just off Susie Wilson).

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    Hell Night Menu

    , for some reason the clams at ECG (Hell Night or non) always taste a bit off to me, they were also rather small. For dinner, DCs raved about the salmon (four bombs, great flavor, some heat, really savory) and swordfish (three...

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    Wild yeast in Toronto?

    to make a starter rather easily almost anyplace (unless your house is toxic with fungicide used to keep mold at bay or off-gassing toxic fumes from carpets and building material). Still, it is easier to start with a leaven that...

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    Spoiled Seattlite looking for good coffee roaster in Paris

    Sorry, Dodo, but the venerable Verlet was a total bust. The first clue was the open bins at the shop. The second was the dry feel of the beans. The third, and definitive sign, was the failure of the off-gassing test. These beans...

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