Aja Goare

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Water was being boiled for Chinese emperor Shen Nong when a dead leaf from a wild tea bush blew into the hot water. This encounter in 2737 BC, as legend has it, is the origin of tea. That is just one of many alleged beginnings of a drink that has become an essential component of countless cultures around the globe. Like the lore around it, tea has various cultures of preparation, presentation, and consumption.

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Cal Poly Creamery Featured at California Artisan Cheese Festival At the creamery on Cal Poly campus in San Luis Obispo, Jenna Bates and her fellow classmates create cheese that’s distributed to California grocery stores and restaurants.

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Anyone who has engaged in debate about bagels (given that this is a food magazine, it’s assumed such an argument is relatable) has found themselves on one of two sides: New York bagels are either superior or they’re not. The reason, Big Apple believers argue, is the water. “Very little water goes into a bagel,” contests Brenda Hock, a San Luis Obispo cooking instructor who has made her share of the round bread. “It’s more to do with the oven than the water.”Water is important, though.

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Semi-sweet orbs with gem-like tones of purple, red and yellow, the beet is a versatile root vegetable that can gin up any salad, Buddha bowl or fresh juice. Spring is the perfect time to plant beets, which will be prime for picking in just two months from seeding. The name “beet” comes from the Celtic word for “red,” but modern cultivars span the rainbow of colors. Golden beets, in particular, present a beautiful sunny shade of yellow.

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One such film was Mistress Dispeller, a documentary feature film about a peculiar line of work in China that aims to save disrupted marriages. In the film, the audience follows a couple in their 60s who has been drifting apart for some time. This relationship is threatened when the male counterpart meets a much younger woman with whom he begins a romantic relationship. The wife hires Teacher Wang, a “mistress dispeller,” to help bring the relationship back from the edge of crises.