• ROC National Diners’ Guide 2012 | Restaurant Opportunities Centers United- “WE ALL ENJOY EATING OUT.Unfortunately, the workers who cook, prepare, and serve our food suffer from poverty wages, no benefits like paid sick days, and little or no chance to move up to better positions. When the people who serve us food can’t afford to pay the rent or take a day off when they’re sick, our dining experience suffers.The newly released ROC National Diners’ Guide 2012 provides information on the wage, benefits, and promotion practices of the 150 most popular restaurants in America. The Guide lists responsible restaurants where you can eat knowing that your server can afford to pay the rent and your cook isn’t working while sick.”
• A Zagat-Style Guide for Ethical Diners | Mother Jones – A summary of the ROC NATIONAL DINERS’ GUIDE 2012

• Has the Devilish Math Problem “P vs NP” Finally Been Solved? | 80beats | Discover Magazine – “P is not equal to NP. Seems simple enough. But if it’s true, it could be the answer to a problem computer scientists have wrestled for decades.
  Vinay Deolalikar, who is with Hewlett-Packard Labs, has sent to peers copies of a proof he did stating that P is not equal to NP. “
• The Status of the P Versus NP Problem | September 2009 | Communications of the ACM – “The theory of NP-completeness helps us understand these limitations and the P versus NP problem begins to loom large not just as an interesting theoretical question in computer science, but as a basic principle that permeates all the sciences.”
• A compendium of NP optimization problems – “This is a continuously updated catalog of approximability results for NP optimization problems. The compendium is also a part of the book Complexity and Approximation. The compendium has not been updated for a while, so there might exist recent results that are not mentioned in the compendium. If you happen to notice such a missing result, please report it to us using the web forms.”
• CMU professor honored for computational complexity breakthrough – ” In a paper presented at the Symposium on Theory of Computing in 1994 and published in 1997 in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences, they showed that a wide class of proof techniques they call “natural proofs” can’t solve the P vs. NP question. What’s more, they found that those previous results turned out to have an almost contradictory double life, providing methods for breaking a wide class of cryptosystems.”

• The New York Times -Watermelon, Tomato salad
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• Zesty Cilantro Lime Roasted Chicken | Food Renegade
  Chicken from pastured hens is split, marinated in a blend of cilantro and lime, and oven roasted to create this flavorful dish shared with us by Megan Keatley of Health-Bent. A very easy way to use cilantro to make soem great tasting chicken.
• Nikki’s Cilantro Cornbread
  A very good recipe for cornbread. we’ve been making this with the cornmeal we got at the mill at Babcock State Park, WV.

• Slow-Baked Beans With Kale – Recipes for Health – NYTimes.com
  Beans baked very slowly for several hours develop a creamy texture, while the liquid they cook in, which thickens to a syrup, acquires a caramelized flavor. The kale practically melts in this casserole, going from bitter to sweet. I love using lima beans in this dish because they’re so big and their texture is so luxurious.
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• A Food Manifesto for the Future – NYTimes.com
  “Here are some ideas — frequently discussed, but sadly not yet implemented — that would make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging and more enduring. “
  (tags: food nutrition policy farmers)
• The Minimalist Chooses 25 of His Favorites – NYTimes.com
  Links to 25 best articles
  (tags: recipes food cooking recipe lists minimalist)

• Recipe – Ginger Ale – NYTimes.com
  Simpler than the others. uses ginger juice
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• Homemade Ginger Ale – The Amateur Gourmet
  “The recipe is pretty specific: it calls for one pound of fresh ginger, two stalks of lemongrass, and two small fresh chiles (“stems removed.”)” But this one uses less of each.
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• Ginger Ale Recipe : Alton Brown : Food Network
  This one uses yeast and a two-liter bottle
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Before we left for our trip to Puerto Rico, I copied this list of places to eat at the Atlanta Airport. The list was extracted from “Grabbing a Bite Between Flights,” by Matt Gross for the NY Times

Since we flew to PR on Christmas Day we thought we’d try One Flew South for our Christmas dinner. We enjoyed it so much that we also ate there during our layover in Atlanta, that’s what you get when you go for the cheap tickets, on our way back. The service and food was excellent. It is a bit up-scale and more pricey than most restaurant food, but it was worth it. We shared an arugula, butternut squash salad, and salmon ‘hot-pot’ style. We had one beer, one coffee and the cheeses plate for dessert on the way out and the rice pudding on the way back. The bill, with 18% gratuity included was about $50.00. Very much worth it, and if the restaurant were in Fredericksburg, we’d be regulars.
ATLANTA: ATL

www.atlanta-airport.com

Bistro del Sol, outside security, near the central atrium, (404) 767-3988, has Mediterranean-inspired food, wraps and jerk chicken. Bubbly service, too.

One Flew South, in Concourse E; (404) 816-3464; www.oneflewsouthatl.com. It opened Nov. 17, too late for inclusion here, but with twists on Southern food, it looks worth checking out.

Paschal’s, several locations; (404) 305-8888; www.paschalsrestaurant.com.

To find the Taxi assembly break room, leave the airport via the northern baggage-claim exits, turn left, walk down left side of the road and under the overpass.

The recipe comes from Herbs Health & Cookery, by Clyde Loewenfeld & Philippa Black, 1970 ( We bought it then for 95 cents.)

Ingredients:

• 1 Tablespoon Melted Butter
• 1 teaspoon crumbled dry rosemary or 1 Tablespoon fresh rosemary
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1 cup walnut halves

Method:

1. Mix together the melted butter, rosemary, salt, and paprika with the walnuts.
2. Pour into a shallow pan, spreading the nuts in a single layer.
3. Roast until richly brown in a moderate oven (350), shaking occasionally, for about 10 or 15 minutes.
4. Serve hot, as an appetizer. May be reheated.

• Uplands Cheese Company – Ordering Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese
  pasture cheese
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A Place to Bury Strangers

• A Place to Bury Stangers Rewires Noise Rock | Listening Post from Wired.com
  I grew up listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine. That is what really inspired me to play guitar. All of their sounds and textures made their songs so mysterious. There was this beautiful feeling of not knowing exactly what was going on. You were just hanging on to a song with no instruments. It left everything up to the imagination.
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• L.A. RECORD » Blog Archive » A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS: RADAR AND LAZER AND FOXTROT
  How did you get into making pedals?
  Just trying to create sounds that I couldn’t get in other places. I failed miserably for years and then kindda figured out how to make things work. And then I started the company because I wanted to go to Europe for a month as a vacation, but I didn’t really have any money, and I had this idea for a pedal that no one else had ever come out with before, and I just kind of marketed that real quick and I made enough money to go. Total Sonic Annihilation. The flagship of Death by Audio.
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• I Know I’ll See You, by A Place To Bury Strangers (7″, £3.29, Rocket Girl)
  Suddenly the “loudest band in NYC”, were the most wanted band in London, with features in Kerrang! and NME.
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• Kansas City A Place to Bury Strangers, Sian Alice Group, Roman Numerals@Record Bar – Events – The Pitch
  If A Place to Bury Strangers were one of the presidential candidates, the hypnotic trio would be John McCain. Politics and a namesake hinting at the Maverick’s imminent resting place aside, like the Straight Talk Express, this Brooklynite band tends to noisily echo the past more than strut into the future.
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A wonderful place. Go there.

Ki Sushi
192 Smith St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.935.0575