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Nancy Hawks Miller, a 20 year veteran of the industry and our Director of Education, recaps the 2006 Napa Valley winegrowing season, a quirky, but ultimately very rewarding season. To celebrate the end of harvest, and especially for those that listened to this episode, we're pleased to offer a 10% discount on all Goosecross wines. Just call us at (800) 276-9210 and mention code: PC29.

Audio: http://www.goosecross.com/podcast/nvwr28.mp3

Söta muffins | 2 ägg, 2 dl socker, 2 tsk vaniljsocker, 2 tsk bakpulver, 3-3 1/2 dl vetemjöl, 1 dl blandade fiber efter eget huvud och skafferi (t ex fibrex, krossade linfrön, solrosfrön, rågkross, vetekli mm), 1 dl kokande vatten, 1 grovrivet äpple - syrligt, 1 finriven morot, Cirka 3 tsk kanel, 1 msk pressad citron, 1 dl flytande margarin

Söta muffins | 2 ägg, 3 dl Dr Westerlund-socker, 200 g smält smör, 1 dl mjölk, 1 msk citronsaft, 4 dl vetemjöl, 2 tsk bakpulver

Metal Outdoor Fireplace - The aroma of reuben sandwiches and buttered potatoes mingles with crab cakes, blackened shrimp and spicy sausage at Norton's Cafe in St. Louis' Soulard neighborhood.

The organic food movement has a mantra: ; eat local. ; Our family has been eating Georgia all year long, because that's how long it's been since we've been anywhere but Georgia! ; Thankfully, Mike and I had a getaway last weekend to neighboring South Carolina and let's just say, local eating in SC is a beautiful thing to behold.

On Saturday, we took in the Charleston Farmer's Market in Marion Square. ; While there were lots of local artisans, bakers and weavers, we were, of course, most interested in the farmers. ; We were not disappointed: ; even in mid-October, with weather in the 50's and 60's, local farmers were featuring beautiful produce and fresh seafood.

I spoke with Celeste Albers of The Green Grocer at her booth, which had sold out of the eggs for which she is famous. ; Her farm is featured in the spring edition of The Edible Lowcountry ;and I could identify with her close association ;to her chickens and specialty crops. ; Those are her hands and her onions on the front cover. ; I left her booth with a little heartache, wishing for my own ;flock of hens.

Each of the farm booths had signs affixed to the tents clearly stating whether the farm was "certified organic" or "certified naturally grown". ; The market at which we sold this summer did not require those types of signs but I like the idea of stating our affiliation. We will do that ourselves at our next market opportunity.

One other feature of local marketing I liked about South Carolina was the state-sponsored signage advertising a weekly local market in a small community. ; "Official Roadside Farmers Market" signs can be seen in the main square of several small towns in-between the major interstates (which we tried to avoid).

During this quiet garden-cleaning season, our family is dreaming big for next year. Taking a little road trip into a state with different soil and local growing options is sparking lively converstation. ; If you have the opportunity to take such an adventure, I would advise you to do so, and squeeze in a local market while you're at it. ; There is much to be learned.

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Denise Burns is the wife of Mike and the mom of Cooper, William and Eston. ; Her family farm website is Burns Best Farm and she blogs here at Homestead Blogger at a blog by the same name. ; Her last-gasp cherry tomatoes suffered a fall freeze last week and there is officially no more summer tomato love to be had. ; Please pause in a moment of silence as she wipes a tear..........

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An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America--a half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a movie theater that screened shoot-'em-up films, an all-you-could-eat buffet piled high with pork, a shopping mall that sold pornographic movies, a parking lot filled with shiny new SUVs, and a snappy dry-cleaning service--much of it run by Halliburton. Most Iraqis were barred from entering the Emerald City for fear they would blow it up. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and internal documents, Chandrasekaran tells the story of the people and ideas that inhabited the Green Zone during the occupation, from the imperial viceroy L. Paul Bremer III to the fleet of twentysomethings hired to implement the idea that Americans could build a Jeffersonian democracy in an embattled Middle Eastern country. In the vacuum of postwar planning, Bremer ignores what Iraqis tell him they want or need and instead pursues irrelevant neoconservative solutions-a flat tax, a sell-off of Iraqi government assets, and an end to food rationing. His underlings spend their days drawing up pie-in-the-sky policies, among them a new traffic code and a law protecting microchip designs, instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoringelectricity production. His almost comic initiatives anger the locals and help fuel the insurgency. Chandrasekaran details Bernard Kerik's ludicrous attempt to train the Iraqi police and brings to light lesser known but typical travesties: the case of the twenty-four-year-old who had never worked in finance put in charge of reestablishing Baghdad's stock exchange; a contractor with no previous experience paid millions to guard a closed airport; a State Department employee forced to bribe Americans to enlist their help in preventing Iraqi weapons scientists from defecting to Iran; Americans willing to serve in Iraq screened by White House officials for their views on Roe v. Wade; peoplewith prior expertise in the Middle East excluded in favor of lesser-qualified Republican Party loyalists. Finally, he describes Bremer's ignominious departure in 2004, fleeing secretly in a helicopter two days ahead of schedule. This is a startling portrait of an Oz-like place where a vital aspect of our government's folly in Iraq played out. It is a book certain to be talked about for years to come.

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