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  • Bluesfest 2010: Lineup Predictions, Wishes, Hopes, etc…

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    Bluesfest is set to announce their lineup next week, and as always, there has been much speculation around the major headliners.  Bluesfest announces their lineup relatively late compared to other summer festivals, which drives a lot of rumours and discussion around the bands on the festival circuit or otherwise that may drop by our beloved…

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  • In The Kitchen: Mom’s Easter Bread

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    Originally posted on FineDiners.ca Last year around this time my sister and I got together to do some Easter baking with the intention of writing up a post on our adventures for this site.  As with many of my intentions for this site, this post kept slipping through the cracks and just didn’t end up…

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  • Climategate: No proof of fraud

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    This won’t stop the deniers of course, but good news nonetheless: On the much cited phrases in the leaked e-mails—”trick” and “hiding the decline”—the Committee considers that they were colloquial terms used in private e-mails and the balance of evidence is that they were not part of a systematic attempt to mislead. Insofar as the…

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  • Ruhlman: The Shame of the Chicken Caesar

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    I cringe when I see the Chicken Caesar because it represents an embrace of the misinformed and unimaginative American diner, who for better or worse continues to shape our menus.  I’ll have a salad, the reasoning goes, because it’s healthy (let’s disregard what it’s slathered with), and I’m hungry so let’s pile on some chicken…

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  • Pharyngula: Reality Rejection Syndrome

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    So, yeah, face the facts: creationism isn’t just a weird reaction to bad science instruction and those annoying godless liberal college professors — it’s just one symptom of a deep-seated mental derangement.

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  • Elsewhere: Homemade Ricotta Cheese

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    Serious Eats has a Food Lab feature on how to make Ricotta cheese, where they dispel some myths about temperature and level of difficulty, and confirm something anyone who has ever heated milk on the stovetop already knows: As milk heats, the proteins and fats on the top surface begin to coagulate, forming a sort…

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  • I get water from a tap. Anything else seems silly.

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    Ron Eade on bottled water: Yes, I suppose we can mitigate our guilt by tossing plastic bottles into a blue box recycling bin (originally promoted by the packaging industry to put an end to returnable bottles). But the fact that non-renewable petroleum is used to make beverage containers, and then more petrol is used to…

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