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During my first days in Russia, I headed for the stalovaya or Russian style cafeteria (9 rubles for soup and meat pie). The food's edible and I knew I still had a stash of granola bars for emergencies, like lunch. I was going to live like the Russians, I told myself. I was going to grab food when I saw it. When you see any-thing that looks (and smells) edible in Russia, you buy it. It won't be there tomorrow. Or the next...
ENYA: SHEPHERD MOONS (Reprise). Gaelic music of a different sort. Enya sounds like Sinead O'Connor after an overdose of chill pills; her songs seem, at first hearing, like the ideal background for stores that sell granola and wind chimes. But hang in. Enya mixes New Age with space age and Irish mysticism, and there is supple witchery here...
...stay off their land. Then Turner announced he would raise buffalo, not cattle, on his spread. "The buffalo were here first," he insisted. Local cattle ranchers are worried that the strange herds might spread disease. They are even more concerned about a campaign by environmental activists -- known sneeringly as "granola bars" -- to reintroduce gray wolves to Yellowstone Park. Ranchers fear the predators will grow hungry, start roaming and devastate their herds...
Cupcakes are, but doughnuts aren't. Ritz crackers are, but saltines aren't. Granola bars are, but granola cereal isn't. Confused? So are shoppers in California, where the state government last week extended its sales tax to candy and "snack foods." But the exemption for food products remains, forcing beleaguered bureaucrats into an exercise in semantics: What is a "food," and what is a "snack"? The extra $200 million may help balance the books, but it has nearly unbalanced grocers as they try to price chocolate chips (a tax-exempt baking product) vs. chocolate kisses (candy, which is taxed...
...manufacturers to play games with sweeteners, listing each type (corn syrup, sugar, honey, and so on) separately so they will appear in the lower part of the list. Kessler wants the sweeteners to be grouped together to enable a shopper to tell at a glance just how sweet those granola bars really...