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...fairly limited, but this is bound to change once their “on tap” wine is up and running. Lest we forget cocktails, those listed under “Quintessential Classics” are well-priced and excellent, the Last Word and Moscow Mule both being green concoctions of Prohibition-era deliciousness...
Public service announcement: Put down the bottle and pick up the bong. Well, not really, but there is growing support that the alternative to unsafe drinking habits is a small, green plant...
Does all this sound familiar? The hyping of a previously unknown green that doesn't taste particularly strongly of anything? The testimonials to its cultural power? If so, you're probably thinking of arugula, whose cultural life cycle has already come and gone. Arugula, a salad green that looks kind of like lettuce, became so gentrified over the course of the past 20 years or so that Kamp used it in the title of his 2006 primer on how we became a gourmet nation: The United States of Arugula...
...worry is that ramps will soon become as passé as arugula, and that seasonal-minded cooks will take up another spring product, like the fiddlehead fern, as the green of the moment. There is nothing good about the fiddlehead fern. It's not even the wild cousin of anything good. And if fiddlehead ferns start getting touted on menus, then this green-market business will have definitely gone...
...software on new computers that would block some websites. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's proposal was promoted as a way to restrict pornography, but most of the targeted websites were political. In August 2009 the agency dropped the requirement to install the software, known as the Green Dam Youth Escort, after widespread protest from Web users and foreign computer makers...