SABRITASH
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A healthy new salad that has swept the nation from coast to coast.
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USA HUNGRY
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Food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), provide financial assistance to low-income individuals and families to help them purchase food. This program is crucial for ensuring that millions of Americans have access to nutritious meals.
NOODLES
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Noodles serve as a staple in many cultures and various cuisines, ranging from Italian pasta to Asian favorites. But easy does it. Listen to your body. Learn to distinguish between physical and emotional hunger. Before reaching for food, ask yourself if you are truly hungry.
WILD WORD
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How did this character develop? Was it created as a challenge? An April Fools' joke? Or does it have a deeper meaning?
$TRAWBERRY FIELDS
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U.S. grower of pricey Japanese strawberries holds $134m funding round. Oishii to invest in automated indoor farm; premium berries priced at $11 for six.
Image: Oishii Farm co-founder and CEO Hiroki Koga shows off a strawberry at an indoor vertical farm in New Jersey. (Oishii Farm)
Oishii's Omakase strawberries can be found in high-end grocery stores. (Oishii Farm)
PEEPING TOM
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Every year near the holidays, Tom Turkey counts down the days in hiding. He knows he’s being watched and is on the lookout.
The name PP comes from the legend of Lady Godiva's naked ride through the streets of Coventry, in order to persuade her husband to alleviate the harsh taxes on the town's poor. The story goes that the townsfolk agreed not to observe Godiva as she passed by, but that Peeping Tom broke that trust and spied on her. A "Peeping Tom, is a nickname for a curious prying fellow."
CHINA CUBANA
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The term Cuban-Chinese is not an oxymoron, but my ABC wife is. Born in Shanghai, with a green card working since 2001.
A living, breathing paradox, at first she may look Chinese, but she speaks Spanish in addition to English and Mandarin. But how did she and the Cubano come to be? She’s a musician’s daughter who plays cello and GuZheng 2K year old guitar.
GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH
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My beautiful Sophia called and while we were chatting she told me she likes to have a grilled cheese sandwich now and then.
I suggested she ask her mom Natasha who makes the best in the nation's west, north, south, and east sides. There was a time I was crowned king of the grilled cheese-crowded kingdom. Mind you, Charlies, my son-in-law, and her dad is a wonderful chef and I enjoy all his meals.
The cheese you should pick for the gooiest cheese pull, the bread and kitchen tool to take things to the next level, and the controversial secret ingredient some chefs swear by.
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
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While Trader Joe’s fans rush to buy bite-sized snacks that are supposedly delicious, I seek Mango O's.
These were the Cheerio mango flavored cereal they once sold and I must now find them before my self-imposed deadline is up and I see my grandchild who’s In first grade. She continues receiving awards and medals 🏅 for excellence. A chip of the old block. Her mom is a celebrity https://www.cbs.com/shows/secret-celebrity-renovation/ They are a couple of my personal Superstars.
GRAB A BURGER
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They say the hamburger came from Hamburg, Germany but was invented in New York City during the 1820s. The Big Apple loves them.
The burger was named after a North Sea port and sold as street food to German sailors along the docks around Chambers Street.