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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thetakeout.com | Diego Villena
You may have come across recipes calling for lemon juice in quantities larger than a couple of teaspoons — and you might well have avoided them for that very reason. As tantalizing as making fresh lemonade can be, it's tedious, messy work juicing lemon after lemon. However, there's a tried and true trick for getting every drop of juice out of your citrus, allowing you to save on wasted time, effort, and fruit.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
mashed.com | Diego Villena
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images By Diego VillenaDec. 9, 2024 1:15 pm EST In the Venn diagram of cooking shows and reality television, "Kitchen Nightmares" sits firmly at the epicenter. It has all the ingredients of a certifiable classic: Gordon Ramsay, dysfunctional restaurateurs, explosive kitchen drama, and despite it all, success stories of businesses turning it around after some tough love from America's favorite master chef.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
msn.com | Diego Villena
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
mashed.com | Diego Villena
By Diego VillenaDec. 8, 2024 2:15 pm EST Domestic lime fruit production in the U.S. isn't what it used to be, to say the least. Total growing acreage has shrunken down from its peak of around 7,300 acres in 1983 to virtually nothing today. The story of what happened to America's lime farms is steeped in disaster, both natural and manmade. And while there is some hype around a potential resurgence, the future of American limes is fraught with challenges.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
msn.com | Diego Villena
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
mashed.com | Diego Villena
Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty Images By Diego VillenaDec. 7, 2024 2:15 pm EST Filipino fast food chain Jollibee provides a remarkable case study in how savvy marketing can create a socio-economic bullseye that even McDonald's hasn't fully managed to hit. Jollibee's origin story starts with a humble ice cream business in Manila, opened in 1975 by Tony Tan Caktiong.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
mashed.com | Diego Villena
By Diego VillenaDec. 7, 2024 6:15 am EST At best, practicing etiquette makes people feel welcomed and valued; at worst, it imposes archaic norms for its own sake. Perhaps nowhere is the latter more evident than in the (thankfully now mostly obsolete) practice of men standing every time a woman approaches or leaves the table during a social meal. This practice is not only outdated but also rather patronizing.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
finance.yahoo.com | Diego Villena
Costco achieves this through a strategy called vertical integration, where it owns and controls every step of the production process, from farm to shelf, which helps reduce costs and increase efficiency. Additionally, the company uses its rotisserie chickens as 'loss leaders' to attract customers, which means they are sold at a loss but drive sales of other items.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thetakeout.com | Diego Villena
Any southerner worth their salt knows (or at least thinks they know) all about Cheerwine. Most will tell you it's a cherry-based soft drink made in North Carolina. A further astute few know that the "wine" in the name comes from the color, not because it ever had psychoactive substances (unlike Coca Cola which did indeed have cocaine, or the lesser known connection between 7UP and lithium). But the origins of Cheerwine are quite a bit less cheery than its fruity effervescence might otherwise imply.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
thetakeout.com | Diego Villena
The culprit behind your metal sheet pans popping and warping in the oven is fairly obvious: it's the heat. However, considering just how heat and metal interact will lead you to better baking practices (and not to mention flatter pans!) You may remember from middle school science class that heat causes metal to expand. However, your baking pan doesn't heat up evenly, which is necessary to prevent warping.
