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"I really like the spices," Brodt said. "When I buy spices in the grocery stores, it is too much, and I end up throwing them away."

What makes the baguettes so good, in addition to the quality flour, is the two-day process that includes overnight fermentation using a sourdough starter.

While you technically can cook certain fish from frozen (the leaner varieties, like cod or tilapia, but nothing as fatty as salmon or swordfish), we don’t recommend it for the same reasons as above. More moisture leads to less flavor and increased sogginess, which you don’t want.

According to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, critical food operations are ongoing during the shutdown including high-risk domestic food inspections, foodborne illness surveillance, high-risk food recalls and inspection of foreign food facilities and imported food samples by unpaid staff.

Hoping to learn more, I meet Allison at a Winchell’s in the Valley, an hour from West Hollywood. He asks me whether I would prefer yeast or cake. When I choose yeast, he smiles.

Park Shin Sook, the North Korean defector who spent the day with my tour, is a petite and vivacious middle-aged woman with short hair who was more than eager to talk about her life in North Korea and why she had left, and I had plenty of questions. As we set off on the bus, Park explained that she had left her home in North Korea in January of 2011 with her daughter and her mother. Someone asked, why hadn’t her husband come with her, and had he known she was leaving?

I started with a fair sized log that we could make a fireboard from. The fireboard is what you drive the drill into. The thinner the better. With the CSP-2 I was able to quickly refine my fireboard down to about 3/4 an inch. The CSP 2 also made quick work of the notch for the burn. When you look at say a log think about how long it would take to make a flat board? A lot longer than you think. The next is the spindle itself. I started with a limb a bit thick. About the size of a 40mm grenade and worked it down to about the size of a 20mm shell. It needs to be smooth and one end a point and the other a round nub. The point sits on a rock or bearing block of some type and the nub in the notch on the fireboard. Once again, this took much longer than one would think.

Another great place arrowroot can work its binding magic is in veggie burgers, plant-based "meat" loaves, or these drool-worthy Gluten-Free Veggie Waffles.

Having reached his limit in the donut trade, Winchell moved up the ladder of the American fast-food business, acquiring Denny’s, a restaurant chain. He eventually cashed out of both during the 1980s. According to Allison, he emerged with $60m and moved to Las Vegas, where he didn’t have to pay income tax. He spent his last years eating broccoli and bran flakes at the casino buffets, and taking his private jet to his horse farm in Kentucky.

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The Grand Portage Lodge reported an assault at 10:30 p.m. August 11. A guest insulted a woman and got into a scuffle with her boyfriend.

The family’s little dog, Nick, who didn’t appreciate the pastor’s gruff voice, grabbed the minister’s work coveralls and hung on. Her mom had to pry off the dog, but the pastor remained good-humored.