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The Power of Pumpkin
With fall just around the corner, many of us enjoy its signature dish: pumpkin. Pumpkin pie is likely the most popular and oldest pumpkin dish, but many foods and drinks containing pumpkin are being introduced such as pumpkin muffins, pumpkin bread, pumpkin ravioli, and coffee flavored with pumpkin.
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Young ‘Uns’ Frances Jones’ tenure as big as her heart
Frances Jones’ volunteer work at CC Young started out like many others. She was coerced to provide supplemental help with something she knew little about: in this case, a residents-only choir group called the Young ‘Uns.
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Knowing Your Options: Planning and Paying for Long-Term Care
It’s difficult for a person in good health, someone with no past or looming health issues to be concerned about, to understand the need to plan for long-term care once they’re too old and frail to care for themselves. But the numbers bear out the wisdom of doing so. It’s estimated that more than 50 percent of people turning 65 will require some form of long-term care.
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Sous Vide
“Sous vide” is French for “under vacuum” and refers to the process of vacuum-sealing food and cooking it in a temperature controlled water bath. However, that’s a bit of a misnomer. You don’t need to vacuum seal your food to cook sous vide. Instead, this technique is really about bringing food to a very precise temperature and holding it there for a period of time, which is why the technique is referred to as “precision cooking”.
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