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Every year Rachael Ray hosts a Burger Bash at the South Beach and New York Wine and Food Festivals. We caught up with Rachael at the Miami event to ask her a few questions about hamburgers, American tastes and how things have changed under her watch...
...good person to ask, especially here at this event, in terms of American cooking, how have things changed over the last 10 years? How is the stuff you do now different from 10 years ago? Things are really changing. Ten years ago people wanted dishes in their arsenal that they can slap on the table in a couple of minutes; now they're not afraid to try something that has a long list of ingredients, some of which might be new to them, because they're available now on a wide basis, at a fair price...
...Rachael, you know that any discussion of American foodways comes back around, for me, to the subject of our great national food, the hamburger, which is after all what brings us all here today. I don't think I have enough words to declare my love for the burger. I know you always take pains to say hamburgers because you're a purist. But I think you can make anything you want into a burger. I love tuna burgers, veal burgers, beef burgers. [Laughs...
...bother straining the scalp? Nearly eight minutes into overtime, Canadian Jarome Iginla, probably the team's second-most recognizable and beloved star, shoveled a neat pass to Sidney Crosby, No. 1, the modern-day Great One. Crosby's shot slipped through the wickets of American goaltender Ryan Miller, who was so terrific throughout the Olympics that he was named tournament MVP long before the game was decided. Iginla to Crosby for the gold medal? Are you kidding me? "You're going to see a lot of kids growing up now, dreaming they were Sidney Crosby, scoring in overtime...
Bachelet, a moderate socialist who remains remarkably popular in Chile, hands her office to conservative President-elect Sebastián Piñera on March 11. She is expected to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a relatively small amount of American aid when Clinton visits Chile on Tuesday during her previously scheduled tour of Latin America this week. Clinton will no doubt praise Bachelet's leadership during the emergency - as most Chileans have, despite the apparent tsunami mishap. It will be up to Piñera to put mechanisms in place to make sure Chile...