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FDA: Avoid jalape.os from Mexico, not U.S. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:19 EDT

WASHINGTON . The government is narrowing its warning to hot-pepper lovers, saying only Mexican-grown jalape.os now are linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak . clearing the U.S. crop.

Food and Drug Administration inspectors were on a large Mexican farm that grew a pepper discovered in a Texas warehouse that was tainted with the same strain of the bacteria. They're trying to determine where that farm distributed its peppers, to see whether it harvested enough to be responsible for an outbreak that has sickened nearly 1,300 people and counting.

Tomatoes were an initial suspect and health officials still haven't exonerated them from causing illnesses when the outbreak first began in April. But those on the market now are safe to eat.

Associated Press

Pull up a chair and stay a while Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:12 EDT

Please be seated.

The store's name is Huckleberry's Chair Fetish, but entering the remodeled bungalow on South Ashland, it's clear that owner Earlene Huckleberry has a thing for much more than furniture made just for sitting.

A more precise name might be Huckleberry's Healthy Obsession With Midcentury Modern Home Furnishings. But that doesn't have quite the same ring.

To be sure, there are plenty of classic chairs by many of the brightest stars in the furniture firmament, including Charles and Ray Eames' terminal seating for Herman Miller, Studio 65's Marilyn Monroe-lips sofa, the Wassily by Marcel Breuer, classic Barcelona chairs by Mies van der Rohe, and many more.

Reaching out in a non-traditional way Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:43 EDT

Call him the Rappin' Chaplain. He won't mind.

The Rev. Norman Fischer, parish priest at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, is a product of the hip-hop culture who often follows his homily at Sunday Mass with, say, a rap song that praises Jesus or comes down hard on the evils that tempt us.

On a recent Sunday, he treated members to his version of The Temptations' hit My Girl.

.He sang, .My God, talkin' .bout my God,'. said member Norma Collins. .And the choir did .doo-wop' behind him. It was really something..

Experiencing Egypt Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:17 EDT

CAIRO, Egypt . After a four-hour flight from London that landed in Cairo just after midnight, all I wanted to do was fall into bed, but the bellhop who showed me to my room at the Mena House Hotel was in a particularly chatty mood. Drawing back my drapes and indicating the inky blackness, he smiled and whispered conspiratorially, .You can't see them now, of course, but they're out there..

It occurred to me that my smiling bellhop was in some kind of Egyptian Witness Protection Program and that .they. were coming for him, not me. Taking comfort in that thought, I fell into bed and slept soundly until a blistering ball of sun, pouring through the partly open curtains, served as my wake-up call.

Opening the curtains all the way, I gaped in surprise, realizing just what my bellhop had meant the night before. .They. certainly were out there . right beyond my balcony . huge, mysterious and more than a little menacing: the pyramids of Giza, including the Great Pyramid, the last remaining wonder of the ancient world. I gulped, the first of many times I would do this over the next eight days. Egypt has that effect on people.

Ever since the fourth grade, when I wrote a report on Egypt for United Nations Week, I have had an insatiable desire to visit the Land of the Pharaohs. Now, here I was, on Abercrombie . Kent's ..Highlights of Egypt. tour. More than once, over the course of those eight days, the concept of trying to cram 5,000 years of history into such a short time frame made me smile. But no one can say I didn't try.

Farmers Market offers food for the homeless Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:04 EDT

Buy as much fresh produce as you can at the Lexington Farmers Market, but at day's end, much of what's left over is donated to The Hope Center.

Kim Livesay, director of community relations for the homeless shelter, said the center feeds about 200 men each day, and another 200 men and women at the recovery centers. .Having this delicious fresh food assists us in serving our clients nutritious and enjoyable meals,. she said.

The Lexington Farmers Market is open beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturdays on Vine Street and on Tuesdays and Thursdays at South Broadway and Maxwell Streets, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays on Southland Drive.

Blackberry champs Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:05 EDT

As far as some people are concerned, there are only two kinds of blackberries . wild and tame.

Tame blackberries, the thornless ones that grow on small farms and in back yards, are big and beautiful. Wild ones that grow along fence rows in undeveloped rural areas are smaller but have twice the flavor of the tame.

At farmers markets and roadside stands across Central Kentucky, you'll find plenty of both.

.The blackberry crop looks good this year,. Bill Best said. Best, an heirloom tomato expert, also grows blackberries on his Madison County farm.

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