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The Salt
12:02 pm
Wed April 25, 2012

Mad Cow Disease: What You Need To Know Now

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Cattle feeding practices have been changed in an effort to halt the spread of mad cow disease.

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 9:29 am

Mad cow disease has been detected in a cow in California, the first time since 2006 that the deadly disease has surfaced in the U.S.

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Food
1:30 pm
Sat April 21, 2012

Earth Day Composting

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Your best crops may spring up from your backyard compost.

Tomorrow is Earth Day. While I risk sounding cliché, every day should be Earth Day. Instead, we treat the planet like trash. So, what is to be done?

For those of you who are discovering the joys of growing and cooking with fresh ingredients, might composting serve as one small step towards ecological responsibility? I know that sticking out of my market bags are voluminous carrot tops and leek greens. And that’s only that which I couldn’t fit inside the bag. Sometimes, I make stock with this excess fiber. Other times, I cut and disregard.

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Food
4:14 pm
Thu April 19, 2012

Where Y'Eat: Boiling on the Best Bank

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Shrimp and crawfish share the paper at Sal's Seafood.

A visit to one West Bank seafood specialist can feel like a mini road trip out to crawfish-producing Cajun country.

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