Lifestyle Columns
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Angel food cake gets devilish treatmentFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Since childhood, I've been fascinated with angel food cake with its heavenly flavor and billowy texture. While most cake recipes offer variations limited to flavors and ...
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I've got Obama beat on beetsFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - I see eye to eye with President Barack Obama on several issues and disagree with him on others. I'm hoping I can sway him when it comes to a contentious culinary issue: ...
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Don't go nuts over salmonellaFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Q. Please explain why roasted whole peanuts and peanut butter are being recalled. I had thought that these would be safe and that only raw peanut products were dange...
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Deb Levar shares her "Over My Dead Body" chickenFeb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Deb Levar is a big-hearted gal, always willing to bake a treat for clients and co-workers, prepare dinner for family get-togethers and share her best recipes. Well, almo...
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Hip Hop for kids: Mom launches CDs and videosFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Hip hop music is popular in advertising, on local radio stations and in dance clubs. Since adults like it so much, why wouldn't kids? That's the idea behind suburban mom...
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Cody pops in at OscarsFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - What a difference a year makes for screenwriter Diablo Cody. The Lemont native and Lisle Benet Academy alumna was low-profile at this year's Academy Awards, after winnin...
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Fighting fair over Fairness DoctrineFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - So much for President Obama being a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. But just try telling that to right-wing talk-show hosts. Obama this week made the point - with none other t...
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'Slumdog' is top dog at the Oscars; Ledger gets posthumous awardFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - "Slumdog" had its day at the 81st Academy Awards show Sunday night, winning eight of its 10 nominations to become Oscar's top dog by taking best director and best pictur...
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Vitamin D supplements necessaryFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Clinical medicine is beginning to realize the importance of good nutrition in health. Over the past month, I have given three lectures to physicians and health care prov...
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Bizarre beginnings for medsFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Q. I was prescribed Coumadin/warfarin in 2005. I have just recently learned that both are a form of rat poison! Is that the best our "medical industry" can come up w...