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Forklore: (De)Stalking Celery
latimes.com 1 day, 4 hours agoWe think of celery as a vegetable -- a salad vegetable, mostly, contributing a cool, sweet crunch, although we do throw celery into soups and stews, and Cajun cookery would be unthinkable without celery fried with onions and bell peppers. Up to about 300 years ago, though, you'd never have eaten a celery stalk willingly, no matter how stuffed with cream cheese. The original form of celery, which grows wild over much of Europe, is known in English as smallage. Its stalks are so bitter they actually cause num
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Hunger Returns To Africa, Stalking 1M Children
boston.com 1 day, 13 hours agoIt's 10 a.m., and the 2-year-old is still waiting for breakfast. Aliou Seyni Diallo collapses to his knees in tears and plops his forehead down on the dirt outside his family's hut.










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