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Sunday/Funday: Tea, Earth Day, Artichokes, Science of Cooking

8:00 a.m. PST - HOUR #1: Food Beverage and Travel News. Using green tea to help produce algae fuel. The 2013 Earth Day Food & Wine Festival.

9:00 a.m. PST - HOUR #2: California's new official state vegetable: artichokes. The Science of Good Cooking with Jack Bishop.

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Sunday/Funday: Organics, skyscrapers, chili, Santa Ynez

8:00 a.m. PST - HOUR #1: Food Beverage and Travel News. Becoming a "Flexitarian." Growing Green Award for Larry Jacobs. Travelzoo's Gabe Saglie

9:00 a.m. PST - HOUR #2: San Francisco and Los Angeles compete over tallest building. Winning Meatless Monday recipe. Santa Ynez Valley stagecoach rides.

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Sunday/Funday: Soft drinks, Frankenstein's Cat, California Parks, Citrus, Alcohol laws

8:00 a.m. PST - HOUR #1: Food Beverage and Travel News. Sugary drinks and death rates. Frankenstein's Cat. Saving California State Parks.

9:00 a.m. PST - HOUR #2: National Oranges and Lemons Day. Funky wine and beer laws.

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Market Fresh: Official state produce, forging knives, vegetarian cooking

Tonight's edition of Market Fresh (heard locally on  Krush 92.5 FM ) features news, including an update on California's new, official state produce categories.

Don Andrade, hand-forged chef and kitchen knives, with California Custom Knives . Part of our Edible SLO series.

Also, Roxanne Lapuyade, proprietor of Roxanne's Cafe in San Luis Obispo (vegetarian).

Our Street Report features Mallard Lake Ranch, K...

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Market Fresh: Flexitarian diets, CSAs

Tonight's edition of Market Fresh (heard locally on  Krush 92.5 FM ) features news, including an update on the Asian Citrus Psyllid .

Author Dawn Jackson Blatner discusses her book: The Flexitarian Diet . 

Also, Rachael Hill, Proprietor of local CSA operation SLO VEG .

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Market Fresh: Pesticide-free citrus, Avila Beach Fish & Farmers season begins

Tonight's edition of Market Fresh (heard locally on  Krush 92.5 FM ) features Mike and Carol Broadhurst with Cambria's Dragon Spring Farm. You can find their oranges and lemons at the Cambria Farmers Market each Firday.

Also, Julie Andrews-Scott discussing the start of the 2013 Avila Beach Fish & Farmers' Market season.

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Shopping for healthy groceries just got easier

A new and easy tool is showing up in U.S. grocery stores to help you navigate the nutritional content of your shopping list. The NuVal system, now available at 19 chains throughout the United States, rates individual food items on a nutritional scale of 1 to 100.

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Central Coast Split Pea Soup

CENTRAL COAST SPLIT PEA SOUP

Serves: 8 people

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Your daily snack purchase could help feed the world's hungry children

Oprah calls it an "ah ha" moment, others may refer to it as a "light bulb" idea or a "streak of brilliance," but whatever you call it, Two Degrees Food co-founders Will Hauser and Lauren Walters absolutely had one several years ago when they developed a revolutionary idea for feeding the world's hungry children. 

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The popular California sea otters return this Saturday to Monterey Bay

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's popular otter exhibit is set to re-open for the public this coming Saturday, March 23, after months of restoration and upgrading.

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