Swine flu causes surge of garlic sales in Serbia

Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item — garlic.

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At last, a stimulus cash sighting in Elkhart!

PIPEWORT POND NATURE PRESERVE, Ind. - The first visible chunk of federal stimulus money to reach Elkhart County landed in this tick-ridden wetland near the Michigan border. Its arrival was great news for Matt Ingle, a 24-year-old father of four who had been unemployed for four months when he landed a job doing battle with the garlic mustard plant that is invading this nature preserve.

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Iowa town's roads well seasoned

Slush has never smelled so spicy. City crews in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny are using garlic salt to melt snow and ice on streets from Tuesday's storm. The salt was donated by Tone Brothers Inc., a top spice producer headquartered in Ankeny.

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Buffet Worker Stomps Garlic With Boots

Stomping on garlic with your shoes on is apparently not the correct way to prepare food. The Rockland County health department hit the Great China Buffet restaurant with two violations after someone took pictures of an employee stomping on a bowl of garlic with his boots in an alley. The man alerted health inspectors.

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A Garlic-Free Recipe for Pasta

A pasta recipe as prepared by anti-garlic chef Filippo La Mantia.

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The Lawndale City Council is considering ripping out thousands of dollars worth of smelly flowering garlic plants along Hawthorne Boulevard because of complaints by residents.

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Wrapped up in earmuffs and a heavy jacket to fight the Beijing winter, Liu Zhan shows little sign of soaring wealth. Until he removes his gloves — and reveals a large gold ring.

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The price of garlic bulbs has tripled in just eight months in China, with global prices likely to rise as a result. Speculators have been blamed for the massive rise - but there is also a popular theory in China that garlic may offer protection from swine flu.

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If you want to get rich in China, the way to do it this year is to buy and sell garlic.

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Serbians may have found a potential cure for Swine Flu. It's Garlic.

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AS the clock strikes midnight Lady V raises a goblet to her lips and takes several hearty gulps. Finally her thirst is quenched - thanks to the warm human BLOOD she has just downed.

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Hot Dogs. What do ya put on 'em?

I don't mean when you get one from a vendor or at a ball game. I mean when you're making the dogs at home. What kind do you use and what do you put on them?

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Grilled radishes...what a unique idea! And they are inexpensive, easy to make, delicious and look great on your plate with other food.

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A man suspected of filling a Crown Court with a foul garlic smell appeared in court under a new name - Gordon Alistair Darling-Brown.

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It has quietly become something of a green gold rush. In woods and forests across Britain, wild garlic is being harvested for soup makers, wood sorrel gathered for Michelin-starred chefs, and spruce needles picked to infuse hand-made chocolates.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Malaysia) - A WILDLIFE official says Malaysian authorities have rescued more than 800 turtles and 160 protected snakes from being smuggled on a truck under a load of garlic to mask their smell.

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Microplane Best Simple Kitchen Tool Ever Invented

The Microplane is a very simple, one piece grating tool. It can be used for grating cheese, nuts, herbs and for zesting. I love using it for grating garlic cloves. This simple hunk of stainless steel is truly one of the best kitchen inventions ever.

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Researchers conclude that no "credible evidence" exists to support a potential protective role for garlic on various forms of cancer, in spite of many animal studies demonstrating otherwise.

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The residents of a south coast town could be forgiven for thinking they had woken up in France this week after the entire area was engulfed by a huge cloud of garlic.

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Easy, Tomato, Basil, Cream Cheese Pasta

This is an easy recipe that is absolutely delicious. You can use your favorite pasta. Linguine, Rotini, Bow Ties, etc. What you need:

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Newsvine's Josh Yockey On Grawlix And The Profanity Filter

I counted over fifty grawlix in an article once. I don't think I knew quite the impact and character of the Newsvine profanity filter until then.

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Greene County has already recorded as many cases of tick-related illnesses this year as it recorded in all of 2007, public health officials say.

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Peeling garlic cloves can seem like an onerous chore, particularly if you develop a taste for a greater quantity of garlic in your culinary preparations. Nonetheless, a certain rhythm and efficiency is soon acquired, and the task becomes quick and automatic.

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"Organic garlic is my favourite, the best for fresh breath at breakfast."

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Eat fiber, avoid trans-fat, watch your glycemic load ... you've got the basics down cold. But nutrition science can be wild and woolly, with more surprises than you might expect. Consider: 1. Mushrooms make vitamin D in sunlight.

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Victor Yool collects, cooks, chews and swallows the gooey local garden snail, and he has served hundreds of the slimy pests to terrified dinner guests. I interviewed the amateur escargot chef at Berkeley Horticulture Nursery, where he is employed as sales manager.

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Whether you're walking around with a box of tissues or curled up in bed with aches and the shivers, what you feed your cold or flu can speed your recovery. Here's how to maximize your body's virus-busting powers.

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Recipients on Valentine's Day may worry about how their breath will smell after eating the garlic chocolates, but the company doesn't seem worried - "If both people eat them, there'll be no problem!"

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We love garlic and use it in just about every savory dish we make. We also cook in mass quantities and I always dread peeling the garlic. I hate it when my fingers get sticky from the garlic juice and the skins stick to my finger. It's not a difficult task. It's just mundane.

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