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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Just-picked asparagus from Kathy Gunst's yard. (Kathy Gunst/Here & Now)

Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst brings us five recipes, including an Asian asparagus salad, braised artichokes with roasted asparagus and an upside down rhubarb cake.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Brothers Paul Norden (left) and J.P. Norden (right) are pictured with their mother Liz Norden. (Facebook)

Restaurants and other businesses are hosting fundraisers to raise money for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, including brothers J.P. and Paul Norden, who each lost one leg.

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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Smart Recipes For Kids With Cancer

When her young son’s cancer treatments destroyed his appetite, mother Danielle Cook Navidi invented nutrient-rich recipes that he could tolerate – and that eased his symptoms. She now has a cookbook.

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
A customer inserts cash into a donation box to pay for her order at Panera Cares in Boston. (Kevin Sullivan/Here & Now)

Panera Bread, the nationwide restaurant chain, has opened a new “pay-what-you-can” cafe in downtown Boston, called Panera Cares. The concept is simple: diners pay what they can afford.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Eddie Huang poses for a picture at his restaurant Baohaus in New York, January 28, 2013. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Eddie Huang has made a name for himself with his New York eatery Baohaus, but growing up as the only Taiwanese-American in his community, he continually felt like an outsider.

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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Heads of cabbage are stacked in a basket prior to being packaged at a farm stand in Dracut, Mass., in July 2010. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Cabbage is inexpensive and incredibly good for you. These six recipes from Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst make the leafy vegetable worth eating year-round.

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Friday, March 1, 2013
Mark Bittman is a longtime food writer for The New York Times. (Sally Stein)

Food writer Mark Bittman says the Mediterranean diet is not the only way to eat well. “Whole minimally processed foods of almost any type can be included in a sound diet. Period.”

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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Lenka Cernikova takes samples of food to test it on traces of horse meat in a widening European food labeling scandal at a veterinary laboratory in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Horse meat has turned up across Europe in frozen supermarket meals such as burgers and lasagna, in beef pasta sauce, on restaurant menus, in school lunches and in hospital meals. (Petr David Josek/AP)

The horse meat scandal has drawn attention to the complex and murky trade in meat, before it reaches the consumer. In the U.S., food fraud is most common with seafood.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013
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Is your cooking going through the winter blahs? Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst shares six recipes, along with some insight on inspiration and ideas.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Mushroom chef Jack Czarnecki holds a large Oregon white truffle found while out truffle hunting in the forest near Dayton, Ore., in 2004. (Don Ryan/AP)

Here & Now resident chef Kathy Gunst brings us photos, recipes and more from the Oregon Truffle Festival, where you can learn to grow, hunt and cook the coveted fungi.

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Monday, May 20, 2013
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If you find yourself waxing nostalgic for the kind of 1970s investigative journalism that led to the Watergate hearings, you can now relive the chills and thrills of the Washington Post investigation.

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Monday, May 20, 2013
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The law requires the IRS to determine whether a group is a social welfare organization, which is allowed some political activity, or a political group, which must disclose its donors.

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Friday, May 17, 2013
Paul Monti next to the truck of his son, Jared Monti. Jared Monti died while serving in Afghanistan in 2006. (Anna Miller/Here & Now)

A conversation Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock had with Paul Monti about his son Jared Monti, who was killed in Afghanistan, sparked a song that hit No. 1 on the country charts last month.

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