Archive forMarch, 2008

Local news briefs

Local news briefs
Polk Online - Visitors can learn about organic gardening and native Florida plants, take a class on composting or herbal remedies and find out how to save water using rain barrels.

Nancy Riley
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Q: I am planning my kitchen garden for this year. Can you recommend plants that I can grow for making herbal teas? — Elena Ruiz, River Forest A:

What s so bad about fructose?
Manila Times - Fruit juices, herbal iced-teas, natural sugar-free fruit jams and other self-proclaimed health foods have it. So too do most processed foods from soft drinks to hotdogs to hotdog buns.

Pua: Pull plug on political patronage
Malaysiakini - Pua, who was wearing the party uniform of white shirt and dark slacks, gulped a bottle of herbal chicken essence the moment he stepped into his office.

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Beer Fights Cancer

Beer Fights Cancer
NewsMax.com - For those who can t stand beer, herbal supplements made from hops contain the highest concentrations of beneficial elements. 2008 Newsmax.

Today’s Top Stories
WBZ-AM - The ongoing casino battle between Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi provided one of the highlights of the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast in South Boston. Patrick, who is pushing a plan to build three casinos in Massachusetts

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Remembering the Passover meal

Remembering the Passover meal
Jackson County Floridan - about the account in Exodus, the killing of the pesach (the Passover lamb) and painting the door with the blood to show their faith, so God would pass over their home, Krys Petyon said. During the feast they were to be ready, eat bitter herbs

Poland panel considers borderline supplements
Nutra Ingredients - specialist nutrients appear to have their foods and supplements use mandated in most member states for the moment, herbals are considered to be in more jeopardy for most in industry would see as the draconian and inappropriate classification of herbs

Mother, daughter doctors treat mind, body, spirit
AZCentral.com - Different therapies are given in various rooms: the “coming home” room for spiritual therapy, the Shirodhara room where oils and herbs are used, a yoga room and a meditation room.

Cooking at the South Pole
ZDNet Blogs - first one. For the salad of marinated mushrooms with tomatoes and cilantro, we had no fresh mushrooms, so Dan Von Bank, who handles materials for the galley, used a mixture of dried porcinis and shiitakes and canned buttons as well as dried herbs

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Tackling nausea in pregnancy

Tackling nausea in pregnancy
Punch - Herbal teas, fruit juices and popsicles are helpful in combating the nauseated feeling. Take a prenatal vitamin supplement to compensate for nutrients missed through not eating.

Bolivia Funds Push for Legal Coca Market
FOX News - The investment is part of a Bolivian government plan to promote the “industrialization” of coca leaf _ the main ingredient in cocaine _ into legal products such as tea, flour and herbal medicines Morales hopes will rescue the crop from the drug trade

Good Karma for Ground-breaking New York Coffeehouse Cafe Sutra
PRWeb - We also offer herbal, Chinese, Indian and specialty blends of tea. Outdoor seating in the summertime provides an ideal spot to relax and take in some rays in the otherwise busy Park Slope area. Ms Wilson hopes to capitalize on America s

Tea at the Plaza back with all its luxury intact
Detroit Free Press - The selection of teas has more than doubled to about two dozen, including herbal peppermint, chamomile and apple spice. Elizabeth Knight, who leads Tea In the City guided tours — www.teawithfriends.com — to tea rooms and shops around Manhattan, said

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Cooking at the End of the World

Cooking at the End of the World
Wall Street Journal - The variety of vegetables and herbs in the greenhouse, which range from fresh eggplant to jalapenos, are all produced hydroponically, using only water and nutrients and no soil.

Candy For Cavities
ScienCentral - We did a lot of the screening, and to our great surprise, one of the top hit we got out of the 2,000 medicinal herbs is licorice. And, as you know, many cultures have been chewing the licorice roots as a way to actually promoting oral health,” he says

Value-driven seafood lures diners to Reel Club
Chicago Tribune - There are spicy remoulade and horseradish-laced cocktail sauces in separate ramekins, and a third container holds a mix of chopped jicama, radish and herbs; the idea is to dip a shrimp in one of the sauces, dredge it through the jicama mix and

Start a something good during Living Well Week
McAlester News-Capital & Democrat - Grow some vegetables or herbs. There is something magical about producing your own food. If you don t want to grow your own food, support the nearest farmer s market.

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From farmer to you

From farmer to you
Willits News - The service will offer eggs, poultry, beef, pork, lamb, nuts, olive oil, honey, raw milk and cheese, grains and herbs on a weekly or less frequent basis (depending on the product)

Business Is Bloomin As Outback Steakhouse Celebrates Its Twentieth
CattleNetwork.com - Chargrilled Tuscan Rib Eye: A tender, thick rib eye seasoned with a Tuscan marinade of imported olive oil and fresh herbs and spices, then chargrilled over an open flame.

New items burst with flavor
Columbus Dispatch - Lamb bream ($15.45) is made with slices of lamb that have been cooked with dried herbs and stewed briefly with tomatoes, mushrooms, onion and zucchini.

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Salvia’s herbal high spurs push for ban

Salvia’s herbal high spurs push for ban
Miami Herald - It’s a type of mint plant, with broad leaves and a hollow stem, widely used by landscapers and gardeners as ground cover. It’s also sold on the Internet for about $15 an ounce for leaves, $11 for the more potent extract, to be smoked or chewed for a

The fur and feathers medicine cabinet!
Deccan Herald - So now we know why the clever, Ugandan chimps eat clay, before or after consuming the herbal medicine. The prescription says that the medicine should be taken with a handful of soil

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A winking version of ‘Rapunzel’ with a lot of ‘va va voom’ opens at

A winking version of ‘Rapunzel’ with a lot of ‘va va voom’ opens at
International Herald Tribune - A splendid childhood of hugs and herbs is shattered when the little girl becomes a woman and her terrified parent banishes her to a tower (a red swing in this version), for her own good, of course.

One Woman’s World
American Reporter - I’ve studied herbs and vitamins and macrobiotics and Eastern modalities and the wise ways of the old midwives of my mountain childhood and I don’t regret or discount any of it.

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Letter ‘To God’ part of church shooting investigative report

Letter ‘To God’ part of church shooting investigative report
KUSA-TV - It was later analyzed by the FDA and found to be an herbal substance, that when injected, would make a person violently ill. Also new, was the fact that a box of bullets was mailed to Mathew Murray at his home.

Finger Lakes vintners don’t shy away from dry reds
Detroit News - Cabernet Franc is lighter-bodied than Cabernet Sauvignon, and more spicy and herbal, sometimes with a licorice twist. It has the red berry, cassis, leather and tobacco notes of Cabernet Sauvignon and is one of the components of a traditional Bordeaux

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Chicken With Salsa Verde

Chicken With Salsa Verde
New York Times - Cover and finish cooking, about 15 minutes, adding stock or water if necessary. Remove chicken. Finish sauce with herbs and lime. Serve with whatever garnishes you like.

888 Seafood Restaurant
Los Angeles Weekly - Or try a soup of whole perch gently poached in the heat of broth, sharp with the flavor of Chinese celery and herbs, made complexly tart with sour plum, or an astonishing dish of Chiu Chow-style braised goose.

Chinese herbs may help treat eczema
Webindia 123 - A traditional combinations of five Chinese herbs may help treat people suffering from eczema, a new study by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong suggests. In the study, the researchers found that patients using the herbal treatment had

Mark Blumenthal, American Botanical Council Founder, Deemed a “Natural
Earthtimes - In her article, Uhland details Blumenthal’s extensive career in promoting the importance of herbs, beginning in the early 1970s with his herb distribution company called Sweethardt Herbs as well as HotChaCha!, the first company to make all-natural

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