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Tampa Bay Area Readers Share Krumkake, Old Sour Recipes

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Readers share recipes for krumkake in time for the holidays. They also uncover the way to make "Old Sour," a traditional Florida drink. A reader wants the recipe for spaghetti sause from a defunct restaurant named Montauro that...

Book review: The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

Random House. $26. Robert J. Samuelson, an economics columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post, says historians have not understood the significance of the "Great Inflation" that raged through the economy in the late 1970s...

Annie Leibovitz: The View From Behind The Lens

Whoopi Goldberg in a milk bath? Meryl Streep in a white mime face? After training her lens on some of the most notable faces of our day, the photographer reveals the stories behind some of her famous portraits.

'Nehru paved the way for extinction of Nehrus'

Nehru's birth anniversary brings to light an old biography, which is perhaps the best-written work on him, historian Ramachandra Guha tells Rrishi Raote. Walter Crocker spent eight years in Delhi [Images ] as Australian high...

Jenice Armstrong: Jane Fonda: Eating woes

PROVING YET again that money, fame and beauty don't amount to squat when it comes to happiness, Jane Fonda was in Philly Friday talking about her life-long struggles with anorexia, bulimia and self-image.

The Jewel of Medina; Mohammad and Aisha a love story

The Jewel of Medina became a cause célèbre when Random House dropped it in August 2008 just before publication, citing fear of threats from Muslims—threats, it bears noting, that had not yet materialized.

Sarah Palin offered $7 mil book deal

Sarah Palin in an older photo featured in her 2009 calendar. Credit: Fame In what would have to be the biggest pay out for a seven week memoir, Sarah Palin is rumored to have been offered $7million to write her biography. I...

Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Web Site

The conservative website HowObamaGotElected.com reports that it has commissioned Zogby International to conduct a poll of 512 Barack Obama voters as part of what can best be described as a viral marketing effort to discredit...

Breaking: Zogby A Crock

My title is ironic and muted because J does not want me calling people charlatans in the titles. Poblano "breaks" the news that Zogby is a charlatan: To my mind, this [Zogby] survey meets the definition of a "push poll", which...

Another tell-all inside Nine

Wendy Squires's The Boys Club about life at Nine THE paperback attacks on Channel 9 continue, with former publicity director Wendy Squires penning what looks suspiciously like an autobiography for Random House called The Boys...

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