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The Goods raise purebred Durocs that delight pork epicurians

May 13, 2010
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By Grant Guggisberg
OLSBURG – Drive 30 minutes north of Manhattan, and you’ll find a country road just off K-16. Another mile or so on that gravel road leads to a well-kept ranch-style home where Craig and Amy Good have lived for more than 25 years. Click to continue…

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Chocolatier creates art at Cocoa Dolce in Wichita

May 13, 2010
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By Catherine Metzgar
Beth Tully spends her days surrounded by chocolate.

Sounds like a pretty sweet career. How did Tully go from working in sales at a Fortune-500 company to a master chocolatier?

A foodie at heart, Tully stumbled upon some chocolate recipes in an issue of Bon Appétit in 1988. From there, the experiments began. Dissatisfied with her career, Tully began her chocolate endeavor in 2004. At her 50th birthday celebration, Tully had an epiphany that she needed to be doing something she was passionate about. This led her to seriously pursue chocolate. Click to continue…

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Eating disorders play havoc on coeds’ lives

May 13, 2010
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By Elizabeth Gittemeier
“An eating disorder is like a relationship with an abusive boyfriend. It will lure you back with promises of better things,” said a young woman who has battled eating disorders for 7 years.

“An eating disorder always has a promise that it can cure so many things: my anxiety will go away; I will forget stress; relationships are better; I don’t even need relationships. But every time I turn back to it, it drops me on my face.” Click to continue…

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KSU’s The Bakery offers study snacks, memories

May 13, 2010
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By Rachel Semjenow With the scent of cinnamon rolls and fresh baked cookies floating through the air, Christina Devaney, a sophomore at Kansas State University, waited at The Bakery for a few old high school friends to gather so they could reconnect. “I no longer live in the dorms, so now it is a special [...]

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Carhops take orders for apple pie and onion rings at one of state’s oldest drive-ins

May 13, 2010
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By Lindsay Creviston Drive-in restaurants may arguably be one of the most enjoyable pastimes of the late 1940s and ‘50s.  In 1948, with World War II behind them, rock and roll increasing in popularity, and Truman winning what some call the biggest upset in presidential history, Orville and Elsie Bobo opened Bobo’s Drive-in at the [...]

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Dairyman supplies fresh milk to local communities

May 13, 2010
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By Beth Troutt Tim Iwig’s alarm goes off at 3:30 every morning. Hours before the sun rises, his feet hit the floor and he is off to the pasture to herd around 100 cattle up to the dairy farm. The aroma of straw and aged manure is under foot and in the air. Cows must [...]

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Kansas City’s Slow Food District: A Table at the Heart of Our Community

May 12, 2010

By Jeanette Pryor Old Downtown Overland Park, two quaint, store-lined streets, is becoming Kansas City’s Slow Food District, its Culinary Center and specialty shops are delectable evidence that the local branch of Slow Food International is convincing people to center their lives around the joy of home cooked meals; meals made from the resources of [...]

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