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Eagle Produce, LLC Recalls Cantaloupe Due To Possible Health Risk

June 24, 2011 by FDA Food Safety RSS Feed  
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Scottsdale, AZ – Eagle Produce, LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona has announced a limited recall of certain cantaloupes shipped from Arizona to upstate New York
in late May, due to their potential to be contaminated with salmonella. Although no illnesses
have…

Fig Compote With Walnuts and sesame seeds: Sweet delicious treats to spread on a toasted baguette.

June 24, 2011 by Jackie K  
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Fig Compote With Walnuts and sesame seeds: Sweet delicious treats to spread on a toasted baguette. Print Recipe Type: dessert Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 15 mins Total time: 25 mins This is a very simple, healthy dessert ready in less than 30 minutes and will last a year if kept in a well-sealed [...]

Top 10 wines of the week

June 24, 2011 by steve  
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Napa Valley dominates this week’s list, with six Cabernet Sauvignons/Bordeaux blends and two Sauvignon Blancs. The remaining two wines are both from Paso Robles. As always, my full reviews and scores will appear in future issues of Wine Enthusiast. Today, I’m off on a trip I’ve been looking forward to: to tour the wineries of [...]

Vinography Images: Early Morning Sonoma

June 24, 2011 by Vinography: A Wine Blog  
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Early Morning Sonoma
ALEXANDER VALLEY, SONOMA COUNTY, CA: A terraced hillside Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard stands against the early morning sky in this 2007 winter landscape photo.

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Off to Greece to Taste Some Wine

June 24, 2011 by Vinography: A Wine Blog  
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I’m a very lucky guy. I’ll admit that when I started this whole wine blogging thing, I had fantasies that someone would send me some free wine one day (now sometimes, I have to tell them to stop). But I never imagined that one day people would would…

Wine Counterfeiters Get Sloppy

June 24, 2011 by Vinography: A Wine Blog  
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It used to be that spotting the counterfeit wine was pretty tricky. You had to look for a cork that was just slightly too new; a label that was just a little too glossy; or perhaps even a vintage that was never made at the winery.

These days? Just l…