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LA Says “No Way” to Jamie Oliver

For the last two weeks, cameras were rolling as chef Jamie Oliver prepared to give LA Unified’s school lunch program a makeover. On Friday, the cameras were stopped. Officials decided that no reality show filmings, specifically “Food Revolution,” would be allowed in the school district. “They told me to stop but then they turned around and asked for a 3-week…
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“Taste of the NFL” Kickoff Tonight

Not all of this weekend’s action in Texas will take place Sunday on the gridiron. Today in Fort Worth, on Super Bowl eve, about 2,000 people are expected to attend the sold-out “Taste of the NFL,” where about 30 of the nation’s top chefs and football legends will team up and cook for charity. Chef Paul O’Connell will be serving…
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in Eating & Cooking

Do We Love Foodily?

When you’re looking for a recipe, you probably start by going to Google or your favorite cookbook, right? Well, there’s a new website that’s about to make your life a whole lot easier. Foodily (short for “food I love you”) is a social food search engine that has indexed the recipes of all the major food websites to offer up…
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Wine Will Save Your Life. Really. (Okay, Hopefully?)

As reported in the most recent edition of Wine Spectator, biotech researchers in Vienna have found that red wine contains “favorable levels of a chemical currently used to treat type 2 diabetes patients. In time, they say, red wine treatments may offer an alternative to current therapies.” So far, Zweigelt and Blaufrankish top the charts for their diabetes-punking properties. Well, hot damn! Pass…
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in Happy Hour

As American as Apple Brandy

The largest downfall of applejack was when the bar community moved away from fresh ingredients and started using things like that lemon-lime sour mix – it killed the Jack Rose. Killed it!