The premium on locally sourced ingredients, after gaining hard-earned time in the limelight, is once again being ousted by the imported, just so we can have something new to brag about.
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Requiem for a Duck: When Tradition Requires an Animal Sacrifice
The Chinese believe that things come in threes. A string of deaths in particular, no matter how random their causes may be, must surely be cosmically linked. Death left unchecked, much like a virus, could be spread. Fortunately, there were ways to break the cycle, to prevent death from claiming a third.
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Meat is Murder; Tasty, Tasty Murder
I was young. I wanted to save the world. I cut out beef, chicken, pork–anything that lived on land– reasoning that I would eventually stop eating seafood. I was a vegetarian for a week. I was a pescetarian for 10 years.
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What is horror? Go past the monsters, the serial killers, the scary clowns. Go past the books, the TV shows, the movies. Go past the make believe. What is horror in the here and now? In history? What is horror in real life?
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