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It looks, cooks and tastes like a burger, but…

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Some forty years ago, while staying with friends in Minnesota, I was served soybean "bacon" strips, prepared in a microwave by the hostess, who has long pursued a healthy diet, including a reduction in the consumption of meats and other animal-based products.The fake bacon strips, sporting whitish stripes meant to resemble the layers of fat …

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Roasting Matilda

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With Barbara and Camille's Kingsolver's rhapsodies about eating foods grown locally by independent small farmers still resonating in my head, I decided to try an experiment involving eggs. Stew had been complaining about supermarket-bought eggs having too-fragile shells and yolks. A friend who raises his own chickens theorizes that's because hens at nearby American-style factory …

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