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The Almighty Beer-Can Chicken

The Almighty Beer-Can Chicken A popular method of cooking chicken in recent years both in Barbeque contest as well as backyard barbeques is the beer-can chicken. Cooking a beer-can chicken couldn’t be any easier but the results are worthwhile. This is a technique that delivers a moist, succulent chicken and flavorful chicken. It’s also a […]

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Frame, Reframe

Frame, Reframe My transcriptionist lived in New Orleans until August 28, 2005, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit. She and her boyfriend and their four cats evacuated with two cars full of valuables and art and ‘irreplaceables’. They rode out the storm in Tennessee in a pet friendly hotel. Eight weeks later they arrived in

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Many Flavors Of Wine

Many Flavors Of Wine The four main flavors of wine are sweet, salty, sour, and bitter. While this is the four flavors your tongue is really capable of tasting, the long lasting impression that wine leaves in your mouth is far more complex. When drinking or tasting wine, your taste buds and your sense of

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Photo Editing the News

Photo Editing the News With the advent of digital photography, news has become closer and more immediate. A combat photographer embedded with troops in Iraq can shoot a hundred pictures while out with the soldiers, and have them on his editor’s server minutes after he gets back, thanks to the magic of the Internet. However,

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The Road Trip Less Traveled

The Road Trip Less Traveled When President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act 50 years ago, he may have started the glorious tradition of the great American road trip. Seasoned travel writer Eric Peterson takes full advantage of the public works project, and in his book “Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A.” reveals some

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times What goes best with coffee? Nothing beats reading the latest news over a good cup of latte. The Seattle Times makes coffee breaks as worthwhile as possible. The largest and the city’s leading newspaper, the Seattle Times, has been bringing headlines to the locals for more than a century. It was not

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