| Unlovable? Not at all! Just don't call rutabagas cute
Rutabagas acquired a bad name for themselves during the Depression and World War II, when legions of children (my mother included) were forced to eat them. Decades later, their image problem hasn't gone away. It doesn't help that they're ugly: rough-skinned and yellow, with a waxy coating and a bulbous shape, they can weigh in at a hefty couple of pounds. No, there's nothing sleek, glossy or colorful about this cruciferous root veggie, which is related to the turnip. But these days, rutabagas are getting downright chic. No one told the diners at Le Lupanar that rutabagas aren't fantastic. In fact, the Lower East Side French restaurant sells a lot of its braised lamb shoulder with rutabagas and baby carrots. “It's pretty popular," says host server Ian Daniel. “People really like rutabagas." Michael Anthony, executive chef at Gramercy Tavern, says the idea of a rutabaga being unpalatable is “definitely a misconception." At Gramercy, the vegetable is sliced thick and cooked with carrots and turnips at a low temperature until sweet and soft.
THE NEVADA CAUCUS: Poll: Nevada going to Clinton, Romney Obama picks ...
Huckabee wins on moral values, McCain wins on the war on terror, immigration is split, taxes are split. Romney does a little bit better on economic issues," Coker said. "Here, Romney is across the board the best on all five issues. I haven't seen that anywhere else, and it tells me he's pretty strong." Alone among Republicans, Romney has built a significant campaign infrastructure in Nevada, and is completing a two-day swing through the state today. "He's paid the most attention to the state, he has the organization, and he has national credibility" from second-place finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire. Coker said Romney's lead was the same before and after his win Tuesday in Michigan. Nevada's Republican caucus is likely to be overshadowed by Saturday's South Carolina Republican primary.
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Now at Hotels: The $250 Cigarette
The next day, Mr. Cole fired off a series of increasingly exasperated emails to customer service and the general manager. "Would you like me to take a polygraph to prove to you that I am not a liar?" he emailed Chris O'Donnell, the hotel's general manager. Mr. Cole is among the growing crowd of smokers ensnared by hotels' new and more stringent no-smoking policies. More hotels are starting to introduce fines for smoking, are increasing fines or are beginning to more aggressively enforce those that are already on the books. As more hotels institute 100% smoke-free policies, hotels say the fines are necessary to get people to stop lighting up and to cover cleaning costs for those who won't. Nonsmoking guests, they say, are getting more sensitive about smelling any hint of cigarette smoke in a nonsmoking room.
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San Francisco Assessor Phil Ting, whose campaign motto last year was "I'm a professional not a politician," took some time off from his city duties this week to, well, do politics. Ting joined city Board of Education candidate Jane Kim and Board of Ed Prez Norman Yee on a merchant walk in the Richmond district on Tuesday to press the flesh in favor of Proposition A, a school bond on the ballot Nov. 7. Prop. A would authorize the borrowing of $450 million for public school facilities, with the money -- plus interest -- to be paid back over 20 years through a property tax hike (of up to $129 annually for every $400,000 in assessed valuation on a home). Ting, Kim and Yee showed up together on Clement Street to convey unanimity on Prop. A across what passes as the political diversity of San Francisco.
Cooking in Common: Korea's kimchi addiction catches on in the West
No matter how succulent a Korean restaurant's shortribs or how savory its tofu stew, it's the kimchi that makes the meal. "Koreans wouldn't think of eating without kimchi," confirms Soyoung Scanlan, the Korean-born cheesemaker and owner of Andante Dairy in Petaluma. A passion for the fermented raw vegetables known as kimchi - or kimchee - defines the Korean palate, although many non-Koreans have a kimchi addiction, too. On a recent afternoon at the giant Kukje Super Market, a Korean outpost in Daly City, Joaquin Muoz, a retired professional cook of Hispanic heritage, was picking up kimchi to eat with Salvadoran pupusas. "I think kimchi is on the verge of becoming the next salsa," predicted Jim Poris, senior editor of Food Arts magazine, at a recent conference at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in St.
Book Sheds New Light on Baboon Social Scene
He wrote it on August 16, 1838, almost two years after returning from his voyage on the Beagle and 21 years before the publication of The Origin of Species. It was a time of vigorous intellectual activity, when Darwin read voraciously on many subjects, both within and beyond the sciences, and met and talked with many different people, from family friends to prominent literary and political figures. Despite this active intellectual life, however, it seems unlikely that he or anyone else had ever combined the words "baboon" and "metaphysics" in the same sentence. What was Darwin thinking? Mind and behavior in Darwin's time The Cambridge English Dictionary defines metaphysics as "the part of philosophy that is about understanding existence and knowledge." Writing in the Westminster Review in 1840, John Stuart Mill offered a summary of views on the origin of knowledge that were being discussed by Darwin and his contemporaries.
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