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• Appeals court taking foie gras off the menu in California

  15-09-2017 23:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court reinstated California's ban on foie gras Friday, finding that a state law preventing sales of the luxury liver pate made by force-feeding ducks ...
  
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• Grassroots sustainability understood

  15-09-2017 23:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A new study that explores residents’ home gardening experiences in Winnipeg aims to understand what motivates gardeners interested in the conservation of native biodiversity in their own yard. The study ......
  
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• Health Canada announces ban on oils used for making artificial trans fats

  15-09-2017 21:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  OTTAWA - Health Canada is taking the final steps toward a ban on the main source of artificial trans fats in Canadian diets.The department says it is banning partially hydrogenated ......
  
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• Maine orders partial shellfishing shutdown, mussel recall

  15-09-2017 21:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MACHIASPORT, Maine - Maine is shutting down shellfish harvesting in parts of the state's eastern coast because of a marine algae bloom that can carry a neurotoxin.The state Department of ...
  
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• Appeals court takes foie gras off the menu in California

  15-09-2017 20:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has reinstated a California ban on foie gras, the fatty duck and goose liver delicacy.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday ......
  
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• Young kids who go down playground slide on parent's lap risk broken leg: study

  15-09-2017 20:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It may seem like the safer choice, but researchers say young children who go down a playground slide on a parent's lap are at risk of a broken leg or ...
  
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• Brexit looms over London catwalk as overseas brands take spotlight

  15-09-2017 19:23
  LONDON (Reuters) - London kicked off fashion week on Friday to pleas from the local fashion industry to protect the city's international outlook as uncertainty about Britain's impending departure...
  
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• Somali book fair offers respite from bombs

  15-09-2017 19:07
  MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Long associated with pirates, famine and bombs, Somalia showed a different face to the world this week as it welcomed foreign writers for the first time to its annual book fair.
  
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• Champagne on ice: London Fashion Week off and running

  15-09-2017 18:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  London is stepping into its role as style capital with the opening of Fashion Week.The extravaganza will feature five days of catwalk shows — over 80 in all — and ...
  
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• Get an autumn hug with a sweet potato and mushroom soup

  15-09-2017 18:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  What's for dinner? It is the eternal question and, nationwide, the "I'm out of ideas" face can be spotted on folks wandering the grocery store in search of inspiration.While even ...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ quick and easy recipe for blackberry and pecan tart

  15-09-2017 18:00
  The pastry is as much the star of the show as any tart filling will ever be – and that’s why, when time permits, I always go homemadeWhen I entered MasterChef way back in 2005, it was as if I had thrown down the gauntlet to my father. Ever since, the more I’ve discovered and cooked exotic ingredients, the more he has, too. I remember once going through his kitchen cupboards on the off-chance that he had a bottle of pomegranate molasses, only to be asked, rather snootily, why I
  
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• Food brands 'cheat' eastern European shoppers with inferior products

  15-09-2017 18:00
  European commissioner says firms ‘misled’ consumers by wrapping worse versions of well-known goods in same packaging• Are brands in the east lower quality than in the west?Multinational food and drink companies have “cheated and misled” shoppers in eastern Europe for years by selling them inferior versions of well-known brands, according to the European commission’s most senior official responsible for justice and consumers.In an outspoken attack on the corpora
  
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• Europe's 'food apartheid': are brands in the east lower quality than in the west?

  15-09-2017 18:00
  Many people in eastern Europe still regularly cross borders in search of better-quality food, drink or clothes – in what Bulgaria’s leader has called ‘the biggest scandal of the recent past’. But what’s really behind this food inequality row?When Boris Yeltsin visited the United States in 1989, he was said to have been amazed at the variety of food he saw in a Texan supermarket. The cornucopia of products, unheard of behind the iron curtain (or at best, poorly repro
  
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• Cocktail of the week: the fourth marquess

  15-09-2017 17:00
  Elegantly smart, and smartly elegant, as you’d expect from a collaboration between New York and London’s finestThis is one result of our collaboration with Gregory Buda from The Dead Rabbit in New York and Richard Ryan of Drinksology. Serves one.50ml green tea gin (see method; we use Tanqueray No. 10) Continue reading...
  
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• Should I tell my adult daughter that the man she calls Dad may not be her father?

  15-09-2017 16:00
  I want to be honest with her, but I don’t want to ruin our relationship. And I don’t know whether her father is my ex-husband or a friend of his. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI am not sure who the father of my daughter is. And I am not sure whether to tell her. She is in her 30s, and mother to a young boy. I was glad she had a boy, as it broke the rather toxic mother-daughter thread in my family. All the women seem to have hated their mothers, as far back as I know about.&n
  
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• Consumed by anxiety? Give it a day or two

  15-09-2017 16:00
  The problems you’re experiencing today seem fraught and important, but that’s mainly because you’re so narrowly focused on the presentThe next time you’re consumed by anxiety – which, given the headlines, is probably this minute – you might borrow a tip from the philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, author of the excellent new book How To Be A Stoic. In a recent podcast, Pigliucci described how he used Google Street View and Google Earth to create a slideshow th
  
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• Melur, London W2: ‘There are treasures here’ – restaurant review

  15-09-2017 15:00
  Forget kerb appeal – this Malaysian restaurant seems almost calculated to repel. But persevere…When I walk into a restaurant and one of the other diners is Kalpana Sugendran Sugendran, it’s as if all my Christmases have come at once to the bottom of a scruffy flight of stairs on the Edgware Road. Who he? Why, he’s the Roti King, boss of the eponymous Euston restaurant, one of my absolute London favourites. His presence here, chatting to the owner like an old friend, mean
  
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• Experience: I fell in love through Airbnb

  15-09-2017 15:00
  What if he thought I come on to all my Airbnb guests? What if he felt unsafe?I signed up to be an Airbnb host shortly after being dumped. When that three-year relationship came to an end, I knew I needed to be open to new people and experiences, and hosting visitors to my city, Philadelphia, in my home seemed a good way to do it. I’m a social worker in palliative care, and I thought, “If I don’t open myself up to opportunities for connection now, I’ll regret it.”It
  
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• British values for kids? Scepticism and bloody-mindedness would be a good start

  15-09-2017 14:30
  I’m fine with schools suggesting ‘We hope for peace among all nations’, but ‘We trust and obey our government’ sounds like very un-British sucking upFor some years now, British schools have been formally required to promote “British values”. According to the guidelines, this seems to focus on fairly uncontroversial issues such as democracy, the embracing of all faiths and the rule of law. However, schools are given a fair amount of leeway in defining tho
  
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• My life in sex: ‘I'm a catch, so why am I still a virgin?'

  15-09-2017 14:00
  The 28-year-old male virginThat damned clock is ticking. I’m sure it’s been pacing away since my teens, but I’ve noticed it only recently: the timer in my mind that counts up towards some chaste world record and down to some imagined expiry date. Because that’s what I believe: I’m steadily accelerating towards a cliff off the edge of which there is no return – no possibility of a fulfilling sex life.Likely you imagine me as one of two things: a religious
  
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• Christian O’Connell: ‘If I had a time machine, I’d go back like a shot to my childhood’

  15-09-2017 13:59
  The radio DJ talks about his excitement at getting a BMX one Christmas, having an Indian granny, and why the little moments with his kids are the bestI was born on a lovely council estate in Winchester, but none of my mates at school lived there – they were middle class, went on skiing holidays and lived in detached houses with crunchy gravel drives. We went to the Isle of Wight on our holidays and lived in a semi with no drive. Dad worked for Ford in Southampton as a foreman, and my mum w
  
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• I’m attracted to older men and it feels like a fetish

  15-09-2017 13:00
  I find the idea of sex with men my own age almost repulsive. I fear I’m destined to have a string of flawed relationships and will end up lonelyI am a woman of 30 who is attracted to older men. I find men of my own age unattractive and the idea of sex with them almost repulsive. It feels like a fetish, and stops me from having “normal” relationships. I don’t think I have daddy issues – my relationship with my parents is stable and loving. I have been in a relationsh
  
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• Idyllic Tree House Conforms to Meditative Landscape in India

  15-09-2017 13:00
  This lovely tree house in Tala, India, perches on the top of a hilltop property, surrounded by a forest and meandering river. The team at Architecture BRIO developed a wooden bridge that wraps around the house, allowing nature inside and around this new structure.“The Tree Villa was conceived as a celebration of this landscape by creating a series of blurred transitional spaces with different levels of transparency and openness within this forested tropical setting,”
  
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• How to eat: fried chicken

  15-09-2017 13:00
  This could get messy, How to Eat is ordering the fried chicken. With chips of course, what else is there? Except kimchi. And ketchup (but never together)Attempting to identify Britain’s national dish is a mug’s game. It is a question too wrapped up in history, culture and emotion, rather than straight sales. There is no objective metric. But, by any criteria, fried chicken must surely be a frontrunner? “The chicken shop is London,” declared Munchies earlier this year and,
  
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• Let's eat … TV dinners. The changing face of British mealtimes – podcast

  15-09-2017 12:50
  In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week speed and comfort rule with TV dinnersSubscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Soundcloud and Acast and join the discussion on Facebook, Twitter and emailGuests Kate Trelawny and Lizzie Mabbott join Hersha to discuss what makes the perfect TV dinner – the most important rule being that it requires no s
  
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• Three recipes to breakfast like a Scandinavian | Book extract

  15-09-2017 12:00
  A traditional start to a Swedish day can be found in freshly baked rolls, scone-muffins with fruit curd, and an autumnal granola, courtesy of new book LagomThe Swedes are pretty early risers, which is admirable given that, for much of the year, they will wake up, have breakfast and go to work in complete darkness. The only way to get through such dispiriting winter mornings is to wrap up (“there’s no such thing as bad weather – only bad clothing”, as my mormor (gran) alwa
  
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• Novel recipes: gazpacho from Love, Nina

  15-09-2017 07:30
  As her days working as a nanny come to an end, Kate Young enjoys Nina Stibbe’s warm and witty book about nannying – and finds a meal to makeScroll down for the recipeIt’s a thing you can have in the summertime. One, because it’s chilled and, two, because you need seasonal tomatoes. But it’s very simple and easy to make (in the whizzer). I decided to make some using a recipe that came from the wife of the Spanish Ambassador (via Pippa), so bona fide. I couldn’t
  
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• Guernsey goes gastro: a food adventure in the Channel Islands

  15-09-2017 07:30
  Kari Herbert samples the island’s emerging culinary scene, from local seafood and tapas to cheese and gin – all showcased at the food festival kicking off this weekend‘The best things in life are usually closer than you think,” says Luke Wheadon as he pours a healthy measure of his artisan gin over ice. I’m in Guernsey with my husband to discover some of the island’s new food and drink offerings, and we’re sampling Luke’s “gin experience&rdqu
  
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• Sudoku 3854 hard

  15-09-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1569 medium

  15-09-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).Buy the Guardian tomorrow or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,776

  15-09-2017 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,303

  15-09-2017 01:00
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• Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals

  15-09-2017 00:30
  Study compiling data from every country finds people are living longer but millions are eating wrong foods for their healthPoor diet is a factor in one in five deaths around the world, according to the most comprehensive study ever carried out on the subject.Millions of people are eating the wrong sorts of food for good health. Eating a diet that is low in whole grains, fruit, nuts and seeds and fish oils and high in salt raises the risk of an early death, according to the huge and ongoing study
  
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