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What's the difference between star anise and aniseed?
Are they two parts of the same plant?
Is one the seed of the other?
Do they taste alike?
And are they equally effective against the Evil Eye?
Inquiring minds want to know.
A condensed history of canned black beans and me...
Ages 0-14. No black beans. No beans at all. Seriously. My mother never cooked them.
Ages 15-16. Campbell's Vegetarian Baked Beans (not black). During my brief affair with vegetarianism in my high school days, I'd come home from tennis practice, open a can, grab a spoon, and eat those beans cold, right from the can. Loved, loved, loved them. I don't think Campbell's makes them anymore.
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Things I can remember:
Phone numbers. PIN numbers. Latin verb conjugations. One phrase in Yiddish. The names of donors to a fundraising campaign I worked on fifteen years ago. My favorite jambalaya recipe. The words to old Beatles songs from the 1960s. Almost every line from every Doris Day-Rock Hudson film.
Things I can't remember at the moment:
The name of my first-grade teacher. How to use a slide rule. Kim's cell phone number (thank heavens for address books). Directions to Mary's new house (thank heavens for Mapquest). The current location of my favorite grey linen summer dress.
One thing I can't remember, ever, is the difference between baking powder and baking soda.
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From Andrea (Montreal Foodies), in Montreal, Canada:
It's been about a month since we moved into our new MontrealFoodies HQ and the pantry has managed to stay fairly organized.
