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Brandon Boudet of Dominick's in Los Angeles wasn't so sure. A Spam virgin, he blanched a bit when it plonked out of the can, all pink like a newborn mole rat. After bravely sautéing some little squares of Spam--for Spamghetti carbonara--he tested one and was surprised. It was pleasantly hamlike and not as salty as he had expected. And it was eerily airy. He was so confused, he grabbed the can and scanned the ingredients. It was the potato starch. That's what holds the shape but kind of melts in your mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome Back, Spam | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...smile on my face, but I'm maybe a little more devilish and firmer than people realize," he says, looking very much like a grownup version of the impish comic-strip kid. "You can have a smile and be quite firm--it's tough love with a little bit of humor built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: eBay Bids for Revitalization | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Klein's parting shot at a president who once had an approval rating in the high 70s and still has an approval rating twice as high as Congress's is out of line [Dec. 8]. Armchair quarterbacking is a national sport, and while I recognize that Klein leans a bit to the left, his column shows a stunning lack of perception. To paraphrase a political line from the past, "It's the security of the people, stupid." This President, like all Presidents, has his faults, but the economic results of a decade-plus of putting people into homes everyone knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

According to the results of the survey, 21 percent of respondents called their knowledge of sustainable foods very or somewhat complete, a response that Kogan said was “a bit disconcerting...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Food Sustainability Low Priority for Students | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...bagels here suck. They taste like rocks,” she said. “No one outside of Manhattan knows how to make bagels, but at least Finagle gets a bit closer than whoever HUDS uses...

Author: By Liyun Jin and Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: HUDS Finagles New Bagels | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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