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Holiday cookie recipes from newspaper food sections
This is Part 1 of our survey of Food Editors' holiday cookie recipe choices. Here's Part 2. A reader requested that I survey the food sections for cookies as I do for holiday dinner recipes. Here's the first installment. This...
December 4, 2009 8:25 pm
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Google will send a holiday postcard to one of your offline friends
Happy holidays from Gmail Sure, email is great, but there's something uniquely heartwarming about the kind of card that comes in the actual mail -- especially for folks who don't hear from us as often as they should, simply...
December 3, 2009 11:18 pm
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Update: Many fish die today to keep killer carp out of Great Lakes
Aftermath: Asian carp: State's fish kill in Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal yields only 1 Asian carp. Chicago Tribune. Killer carp: In hiding or just a big fish tale? Detroit Free Press: The discovery of one dead carp may not...
December 3, 2009 11:44 am
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Prune cookies: A family heirloom holiday recipe
My colleague Beth Heaney has only one specialty cookie, passed down from her grandmother via her Aunt Anna. She says they're such a tradition in her family that if she showed up for a holiday without them, "Everyone would...
December 2, 2009 1:45 am
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Online museum showcases the history of Christmas lights
"This Propp set (c. 1923) includes figural lamps from Japan, including (from left to right): a monkey, fish, strawberry, pine cone, banana, frog, Santa, and a dove. All these lamps have carbon filaments. The red sockets on the festoon...
December 1, 2009 9:34 am
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Free mp3s: Rosanne Cash, Brooklyn '09
Rosanne Cash - Brooklyn 2009 Live at St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, October 9, 2009. Very good soundboard. A crisp and clear recording, this is truly heartfelt by the numbers and thanks to Evil Dr Louie for sharing the lossless...
December 1, 2009 12:22 am
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CyberMonday's best online deals involve discounts AND free shipping
Dealnews's reporting from Friday's online shopping front (Black Friday Cheers & Jeers 2009 ) probably presages what you're likely to encounter today on CyberMonday, aka Shopping From Work Day. Jeers outnumbered cheers. Examples of each: Jeers: To Roku, maker...
November 30, 2009 2:20 am
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