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Monday

Preparing For Summer With Celebrity Chef Carla Hall

Celebrity chef Carla Hall, a former contestant on the TV reality show Top Chef, drops by the Tell Me More studio to share her favorite easy-to-prepare summer recipes. She also offers guest host Allison Keyes tips on how to enjoy healthy eating.

Preparing For Summer With Celebrity Chef Carla Hall

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Economy

A Not-So-Sweet Tax On Candy

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Candy is candy, right? Not if you're trying to tax it. That's when the definition gets a bit sticky. Suddenly a Snickers bar is candy but a Twix isn't. This is an issue as states like Colorado and Washington move to tax sweets to help balance their budgets.

A Not-So-Sweet Tax On Candy

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Sunday

Miss Dahl Offers You Her 'Voluptuous Delights'

Former-model-turned-writer Sophie Dahl's cookbook, Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, not only offers yummy, seasonal recipes, but also offers an insight into Dahl's own relationship with food. Dahl has written for Vogue, The Guardian and The Times of London. Host Liane Hansen speaks with Dahl, who is also the grand-daughter of the writer Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal.

Miss Dahl Offers You Her 'Voluptuous Delights'

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Friday

Louisiana Eateries Fear Oil Will Scare Seafood Lovers

Kenneth Williams shucked oysters at Felix's Restaurant & Oyster Bar in New Orleans at the end of April. Restaurateurs say their seafood is safe and they won't put food on the table that isn't. But that hasn't stopped rumors from spreading. Bill Haber/AP hide caption

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Gulf Oil Spill: Containment And Clean Up

Louisiana Eateries Fear Oil Will Scare Seafood Lovers

Many Louisiana restaurants are worried that oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will drive customers away -- even though the seafood is safe. Restaurant owners have sued oil giant BP, and they're spreading the word that they won't put unsafe food on their tables. Ewell Smith of the Louisiana seafood board says they're facing a "perception challenge."

Louisiana Eateries Fear Oil Will Scare Seafood Lovers

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Gardening

Vegetable Gardening On A Budget

Wondering what to do with that old PC case? You could turn it into a planter, and grow strawberries in winter. "Cheap vegetable gardener" Shawn Verrall describes how he gardens in his limited backyard space, in a less-than-ideal climate, without spending a lot of money.

Vegetable Gardening On A Budget

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The Fourth of July

For The Perfect Hot Dog, Keep It Simple

Memorial Day weekend is here -- and the season for cookouts and hot dogs has begun. We asked a group of experts how to make the perfect hot dog -- without getting too fancy. They lay out the best way to approach the essentials, from the bun to condiments.

For The Perfect Hot Dog, Keep It Simple

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Taking Tomatoes Back To Their Tasty Roots

Called red currant tomatoes, these Solanum pimpinellifolium are actually a tomato cousin, in the nightshade family. The fruits are intensely tomato-flavored and very sweet. Harry Klee hide caption

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Science

Taking Tomatoes Back To Their Tasty Roots

Most supermarket tomatoes are bred for durability during shipping and to produce high volumes of fruit. Now, scientists at the University of Florida are trying to recapture the tomato taste that made the fruit so popular originally. To create this tasty tomato, the scientists are using a mix of genetics and psychology.

Taking Tomatoes Back To Their Tasty Roots

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Tuesday

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Saturday

A 26-Page Brownie Recipe? Only At The Pentagon

Penny Karas, owner of Hello Cupcake in Washington, D.C., measures a finished batch of brownies. The recipe states the brownies should not be cut larger than 3 1/2 inches by 2 1/2 inches by 5/8 inch. May-Ying Lam/NPR hide caption

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A 26-Page Brownie Recipe? Only At The Pentagon

Brownies are one of the simplest things in the world to bake -- that is, unless you're following the official brownie recipe for our men and women in uniform. The recipe has specifications on everything from nut size to water quality.

A 26-Page Brownie Recipe? Only At The Pentagon

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Books

Food Stylists Put The Sizzle On Your Burger

Ever wonder why your Big Mac never looks as good as the one in the ads? You don't have a food stylist picking out the wilted lettuce and choosing the perfect bun from a hundred contenders.

Food Stylists Put The Sizzle On Your Burger

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Friday

Road Food, Grand Trunk-Style, In India, Pakistan

A street vendor fries jalebi, a treat made of batter and crystallized sugar that is popular in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. John Poole/NPR hide caption

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Along The Grand Trunk Road

Road Food, Grand Trunk-Style, In India, Pakistan

Life along the Grand Trunk Road connecting Indian and Pakistan offers ample evidence of the contrasts in the two countries and their cultures. But at the table, at least, you notice the similarities, not the differences. The NPR team finishes its journey on the historic road by mulling over the region's culinary legacy.

Steve Inskeep reports

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Wednesday

Chilean Wine Wins Blind Taste Test
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Chilean Wine Wins Blind Taste Test

In 1976, a blind wine taste test in Paris put Napa Valley, Calif., wines on the map. More than 25 years later, a similar event called the Berlin Tasting brought new respect to Chilean wines. Now, a Chilean vintner has re-created the Berlin Tasting to bring more recognition to Chilean wines -- and, at the New York tasting, it worked.

Chilean Wine Wins Blind Taste Test

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A Seattle Biologist's Cookbook Research

Phil Levin, a biologist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, talks to Michele Norris about the method used for one of his latest research projects. Levin wanted to examine the area's seafood history to better understand the decline of rockfish, three species of which were put on the endangered species list last month. So he and a colleague looked at more than 100 cookbooks published in Oregon and Washington between 1885 and 2007. While he didn't find many rockfish recipes, he did discover some patterns in Northwest cooking.

A Seattle Biologist's Cookbook Research

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Tuesday