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Ask the Splendid Table: Preserved lemons add a special note - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Make a large cross in the top of each lemon, and continue to cut down about 2/3 of the way through the lemon, leaving the stem end intact. Open each lemon slightly and stuff generous amounts of salt into and between the cut edges. Be generous. They ...
Posted Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:39:00 GMT

Split-level rises to new heights of mid-century chic - Democrat and Chronicle
The façade of David and Roz Sewhuk's Brighton home suggests your average solidly built, mid-20th-century house — just like many others on quiet side streets in the area. Only a tall steel sculpture in the yard hints at the decidedly atypical ...
Posted Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:40:00 GMT

I can't understand you Fergie - The Sun
DEFENDER Nemanja Vidic says he cannot understand Alex Ferguson’s Scottish accent. So SunSport has decided to help the Serb centre-back by translating a few of the Glaswegian gaffer’s stock phrases: 1. “Come oan, get aff! Ye aff yer heid ...
Posted Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:26:00 GMT

Furnishing the house, feeding the client - Baltimore Sun
M arin Alsop's interior designer traveled to her parents' Upstate New York house recently to select some family antiques for her new home, a condo in a historic Mount Vernon building that's brimming with 19th-century charm. The ground-breaking ...
Posted Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:25:00 GMT

Global Design makes it a small world - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
A home decorated with African masks, an altar table from China and a Moroccan lamp used to mean the occupants were either world travelers or very wealthy. No more. Today, you don't have to leave South Florida or hire an interior designer to import ...
Posted Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:37:00 GMT

Glam on a budget - Argus Leader
Remember flocked wallpaper? It's back. But it's not your mother's wallcovering. Nor is bamboo, which designers are using not just as environmentally friendly floor covering, but on walls, too. And what about those chandeliers? Not only do they bedeck ...
Posted Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:54:00 GMT

Artful floor lamps have become lighting standouts - Philadelphia Inquirer
First, you notice the cool shades - bold drums or rectangles towering over supports that are cylindrical, stacked or barely there. Actually, some new floor lamps look more like twisted tree branches than lighting. Others are dramatic pieces that arc ...
Posted Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:16:00 GMT

Redecorating on the cheap: Cut the clutter - Buffalo News
When looking ahead to home decorating trends, remember this color: mimosa. The warm hue –found in the flowers of the Mimosa tree and, of course, the cocktail –is touted Color of the Year for 2009 by Pantone, the global color-forecasting company ...
Posted Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:11:00 GMT

Actor undergoes 90-minute transformation to become Shrek on Broadway - Indiana Gazette
NEW YORK - It's a little after 6 p.m. in the star dressing room at the Broadway Theatre, where a sign on the door warns: ``Do not disturb. Shrek makeup in progress.'' In progress - and moving methodically along. Two makeup artists - Dave Presto and ...
Posted Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:51:00 GMT

Local detectives play waiting game to break cold cases - NWI.com
In a fairer, safer world, there is a bus full of nuns. The nuns ride around witnessing every homicide everywhere. These nuns are invaluable to the detectives who use them for comprehensive, trustworthy accounts of the knifings, shootings, stranglings ...
Posted Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:02:00 GMT