Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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IN THE KITCHEN: Industrial food is a meaty matter, indeed
By Pat Tanner Special Writer Calling “The River Cottage Meat Book” a cookbook is like calling “War and Peace” a novella. This tome by British chef, broadcaster, writer, farmer and educator Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does contain recipes — about 150, from the everyday (glazed baked ham, chili con carne) to the exotic (roast grouse, curried…
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Down Syndrome conference was ‘superb’
Mary Ann Dawedeit of Chevy Chase, MD I wanted to thank the Princeton University Class of 2010 for hosting the conference “Turn the World Upside Down” on Saturday, Nov. 17. The conference, organized by Princeton students Jenni Newbury and Connor Diemand-Yauman, provided over 200 families information about Down Syndrome via workshops and an understanding…
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Congo’s Law is absurd
Jonathan Eckstein of Princeton “Congo’s law?” It should be called the “force everybody to become an animal psychologist law.” According to this proposed law, a dangerous animal is free to maul anybody who doesn’t understand its particular psyche well enough not to “provoke” it. I urge the state Legislature to vote down this absurd…
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FIGHTING BREAST CANCER: A healthier future for ‘Jersey girls’
By Kristin Boyd Staff Writer Dr. Elisa Bandera has been studying the link between diet and cancer prevention for 20 years, but the disease recently hit close to home. Her mother-in-law and sister-in- law were diagnosed with breast cancer — within a month of each other. That, she says, only intensified her interest in…
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‘A Princeton Christmas’ CD will aid African hunger relief
Eight Princeton-based student choral groups — including the famed American Boychoir — are featured on the debut “A Princeton Christmas: For the Children of Africa” album as a way to lift spirits around the world and raise funds for the School Feeding campaign of the United Nations World Food Program in Africa. Tom…
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HEALTH MATTERS: Care can make all the difference in enabling people with mental illness to live productive lives
Consider the facts about mental illness By Jacqueline Oshiver, LCSW Special to The Packet
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Making history in Griggstown
Enjoying the premiere screening of ‘Historic Griggstown — Then and Now’ are John Allen, Paul Muldoon, Mark Alan Hewitt and Tom D’Amico.
