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I didn't have to spend so much time at the Election Warehouse, on the other hand, it's not the latest I've made it home from an election.

6-4

Six-4 was not the last Minneapolis precinct to report. It was the next-to-last.

11/5/08

From the sweet potato vine

chocolate

THEIR OWN TREAT In Ecuador, the Quechua make chocolate from cacao they grow. Above, cacao drying in the Napo Valley.
By JILL SANTOPIETRO
Published: November 4, 2008

ON an island in the Napo River in Ecuador’s Amazonian rain forest, in a tin-roofed hut on stilts, live some of the world’s most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs. More

Cook’s Delight: Another Helping of Hopkinson

By JULIA MOSKIN
Published: November 4, 2008

THE English chef Simon Hopkinson wears his crown lightly. After being anointed author of the “most useful cookbook of all time” in 2005 for his work “Roast Chicken and Other Stories” by a panel of his British food-world peers, he might have cracked under the pressure: retired from the field, succumbed to crippling writer’s block or indulged in some scandalous behavior, like endorsing a line of frozen entrees. More

Bubbly!

GENTLE HAND Anselme Selosse, Champagne maker, says "My religion is the vineyard."
By ERIC ASIMOV
Published: November 4, 2008

WITH rough, work-thickened hands, unruly hair and a steady gaze, Anselme Selosse looks the image of the French vigneron, a man more comfortable tending vines and working in his cellar than he is in a New York restaurant talking to sommeliers and wine writers. More

Roast Prosciutto-Wrapped Fish

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