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...5. Tasty food comes in small batches. Today farmers' markets are a tourist attraction and many delight in regional specialities. For these producers play to the strengths of their ingredients, unlike, for instance, the makers of mass-produced cheese. This has to taste the same year-round, despite seasonal variations in milk quality. "So high-quality milk in the spring is downgraded so the finished product is consistent throughout the year," says Ms Goodman....

...8. Corsets, not bras. "By that I don't mean Victorian corseting," says Ms Goodman. "Corsets support your back as well as your chest, and don't leave red welts on your skin like bra elastic does. They made it hard to breath walking up hills, but I get short of breath doing that anyway. And most people feel sexy in a corset."...

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Oh, here's the link.

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...Far from being a reality series, these beautifully filmed programmes revel instead in the period's rich history, the British countryside as it changes through the seasons, and of course food. Every episode features a dinner cooked up using period breeds and varieties of animals, fruits, and vegetables, according to 400 year old recipes extracted from housewives' diaries, farming manuals etc...

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[ 25 August 2005: Message edited by: Contrarian ]

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Originally posted by Boom Boom:
There's a restaurant in Ottawa on what becomes the Prescott Highway/Highway 16, .... Can anyone give an update on how the Green Valley is doing these days?

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[ 25 August 2005: Message edited by: deBeauxOs ]

Oh, crap, another landscape from my youth gone - first, Union Station, now the Green Valley, and I don't know how many more in between. Thanks for the update.