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South Carolina’s Southern Fried Fuel

photo: Sara Novak Down here in South Carolina we’re known for our southern fried chicken, but what about our southern fried fuel? In a move that could have a big time impact on the way Carolina views the deep fat fryer, city council officials are calling on local restaurants and residents to donate their cooking oil to be turned into biofuel to run the city’s garbage trucks. Right now it’s just a test run on one of the city’s trucks, but if it’s successful, it could make a dent in the city’s garbage pickup carbon footprint. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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7 Great New Food Books For Sustainable Eating

Image: Jeff Nield When we published our list of 9 Must Read Books on Eating Well over a year and a half ago, it felt like the good food fad may have reached its peak: The 100 Mile Diet had swept the continent, Michael Pollan had laid out the common sense problems and solutions surrounding our food system plain enough for all to understand, and

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Weekday Vegetarian Gets The Nod From TIME and PETA

Sam Kerr for Time Graham Hill’s Weekday Vegetarian concept is controversial among some of our readers, who don’t think people should eat meat at all. But Time Magazine says that only 2.5% of Americans are strict vegetarians or vegans, and Graham’s idea is that any cutback in meat consumption is good for the environment. Not everyone has the discipline to go, dare I say, whole hog; according to Vegetarian Times , a full 10% of Americans follow a “vegetarian-inclined” diet. But the most surprising takea… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gwyneth Paltrow Is the Most Perfect Person In the World [Your Life Sucks]

Gracing the cover of Vogue ‘s annual Age Issue is American expatriate and actress Gwyneth Paltrow . She has a cookbook coming out, so they dispatched a food writer to cook with her at several of her mansions. It was sublime. More

Deconstructing the Twinkie

Image credit: Good The Twinkie is, perhaps, the most iconic highly-processed snack food American culinary ingenuity has ever devised. Originally invented in the 1930s as a means to utilize strawberry shortcake cream-filling machines when strawberries were out of season, the “Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling” is now an entity all its own—one that photographer Dwight Eschliman has broken down into an elemental 37 or so Ingredients …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Wretched Excess Dept: A Loaf of Bread for $30

Image from Hobbs House Bakery We love our daily bread. But celebrities must love it even more, for this one costs a lot of dough: £21 (that’s $30 US). When Liz Hurley , Damien Hirst and Prince Charles are all eating it for breakfast and others are ordering it online to the tune of 100 a week, one has to be a little bit curious to know wha… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Here Comes Ajumma Korean Drama

Synopsis for Here Comes Ajumma O-nim is a housewife who has sacrificed herself to cater to all her husband and children#39;s needs. When she finds out that her husband is having an affair, she tries to transform herself into a classy lady and manages to parlay her cooking skills into a new career as a TV celebrity chef. This is a story of an ordinary housewife who is scorned by her husband for being shallow and ignorant but who later transforms into a successful and sophisticated woman. Her tr

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Paula Deen: You Defamed Me, and I’m Rich

Filed under: Celebrity Justice Paula Deen’s good name has been slandered, and she’s filthy rich — this is what TMZ has learned from a lawsuit filed by Paula Deen Enterprises.It seems the Food Network star made a deal with Celebrity Chefs Tour to do cooking demonstrations before … Permalink

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ Video: Pop-Culture Cheat Sheet, Part II

From Andy Warhol to ‘NCIS,’ there are plenty of references we didn’t spot the first time. By James Montgomery and Eric Ditzian Lady Gaga in her video for “Telephone” Photo: Interscope It is perhaps tribute to Lady Gaga’s sprawling, spot-the-references “Telephone” video that, even after we published a fairly comprehensive Pop-Culture Cheat Sheet on Friday, there was still enough ephemera left over for a second piece. Seems there was plenty we missed in our first go-round, so we’re back for round two, with special note of thanks to the intrepid readers who pointed out many of the following to us. Without further ado, here’s our Pop-Culture Cheat Sheet, Part II. Once again alphabetized and cross-referenced for your perusal. ‘Telephone’ Cheat Sheet Photos Blue, Alektra : American porn star. A former Penthouse Pet of the Month with credits to her name like “Housewives Hunting Housewives” and “Tease Before the Please 2,” Blue shows up as a leather-clad inmate welcoming Gaga to lockup with a suggestive roll of her eyes. “Chicago” : Musical based on a sensational 1924 murder trial. The play’s “Cell Block Tango” number (and its “Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail”) are nodded to in the “Telephone” prison dance sequence. “Command & Conquer” : Long-standing video game serious with both real-time strategy and first-person shooter iterations. One of three fictional ingredients in Gaga’s Cook ‘N’ Kill lunch special is a cup of Tiberium, a valuable yet toxic resource within the series’ gameplay. Dal

How to Cook, Circa 1917

The recipes listed here were originally published in a cookbook called A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband, with Bettina's Best Recipes . I sometimes wonder how pleased Bettina's husband was with her cooking.

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