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		<title>The (Food) Year in Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Sunday magazine came out yesterday with it&#8217;s 9th annual &#8220;Year in Ideas&#8221; issue.  The Times calls it a collection of &#8220;noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity . . .&#8221; Several of those notions involve food and beverage.  Though they aren&#8217;t Northwest specific, they&#8217;re certainly noteworthy. Cows With Names Make More Milk &#8220;A study of several hundred British dairies published in the journal Anthrozoös in March . . .  found that cows that have names make, in a given year, about 258 liters more milk per farm than anonymous ones — a bump of about 6 percent . . . &#8216;The naming,&#8217; says Catherine Douglas, the Newcastle University animal behaviorist behind the research, &#8216;reflects the humans&#8217; attitudes toward the cows, and therefore how they behave around them.&#8217; Named cows are more often treated nicely, and well-treated, calm and happy cows make more milk. The point, Douglas says, is that it definitely can&#8217;t hurt to name your cows.&#8221; Gourmet Dirt Laura Parker, an artist and agricultural activist based in Northern California, is offering what could be described as wine tastings, only with dirt.  As the Times says &#8220;&#8216;Grassy&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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