Lisa on March 17th, 2010

Have you ever thought about the classic burger “periodic table”?  You know: your burger, your bun, your pickles, tomatoes, cheese, mustard, lettuce, and ketchup.  If you deconstruct the ingredients, you wind up with the Holy Burger Trinity of tomatoes, cheese, and pickles.  (Ketchup and tomatoes are redundant, especially if you have juicy, fresh tomatoes, and [...]

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Lisa on July 24th, 2008

“The young sow wild oats; the old sow sage,” goes the adage.  Arabians associated sage with immortality while the Romans called it salva, or in Latin, to “heal” or “save.”  (Hence, the modern-day word “salvation.”)  There are hundreds of varieties of sage, ranging from the purple-flowered common sage to the more exotic varieties like pineapple [...]

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