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Soup can be based on meat, vegetable, fruit or dairy products, but with the tremendous variety of seafood available today, fish soup is among the more tempting options when it comes to cooking dinner. You can reduce a basic fish stock and serve it simply as consomme or you can concoct an elaborate flavor-and-texture fantasy such as cioppino, bouillabaisse or zuppa di pesce.

Shane Valentine’s latest book may be “Baby Cuisine,” but it was easy for him to shift to creating recipes for the elderly. “It’s the same thought process,” he said.

Former Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury has been appointed by the governor to a three-year term on the Northwest Power and Conservation Council.

The fish report is weekly. Its accuracy depends on marinaoperators, tackle shops and local fishermen we contact. Anglerscatching large fish should send the information to Outdoor NewsService, P.O. Box 9007, San Bernardino, CA 92427, or telephone909-887-3444, so it can be included in this report. Faxes can besent to 909-887-8180. E-Mail messages or fishing reports can alsobe posted to Jim ...

Family, friends and co-workers are mourning the deaths of Larry Barrett, Dani Schiff and Perry Krinitt, who were killed Tuesday in a chopper crash near Kamiah, Idaho.

There's been quite a bit of hype surrounding Catherine Walthers's recently released cookbook "Soups + Sides," and it's not difficult to see why.

For everything there is a season, a time to be quiet and a time to speak. The last warm days of summer are heralded in farming communities as the time of the harvest. Here in British Columbia the harvest many look forward to is not a crop.

Endangered salmon make comeback in Portland
kgw.com
Right in the middle of Southeast Portland, endangered salmon are making a remarkable comeback and soon they'll be swimming right under roadways. ...
Portland stream restoration bringing salmon backmyCentralOregon.com

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Linda Monroe adds a little love to every dish she makes. “I guess that’s my heart — people,” Monroe said. “I just cook to share. Almost every time I cook, I have someone in mind I want to share it with.”

BRIDGEPORT — Shady Bridgeport Park is an inviting retreat from the August sun as I ride into the quiet agricultural town below Chief Joseph Dam. I park the motorcycle and stroll across the grass where people are lined up to buy odd-shaped squash, watermelon, tomatoes, peppers, kohlrabi and cucumbers. The half-dozen truck farmers offer fresh vegetables peppered with local history.

How Low Can You Go? AMERICANS crave efficiency. We esteem cars that burn less gas for each mile driven, jobs that generate the most money per hour and mobile phones that pack the most capabilities into the smallest possible package. In short, we want bang for our buck.

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Ball Announces Plans to Consolidate Salmon Can Plant Production
PR Newswire (press release)
The Richmond plant manufactures steel cans for the Alaskan and Canadian salmon industry. It opened in 1985 and today employs approximately 40 people. ...
Ball to close Canadian can plantThe Associated Press
Ball to shutter Canadian can factoryDenver Business Journal

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A cookbook, with favorite recipes from American Fork Library staff members and friends, is nearing its second printing.

(Boise, ID) - The ECHL's Idaho Steelheads and Utah Grizzlies announced Tuesday that the teams would square off for a pair of preseason games on Friday, October 8, and Saturday, October 9.

FREEZEOUT CREEK — This tributary to the Russian River near Duncans Mills got its name from the lingering frost its steep, north-facing watershed attracts in deep winter.

» STEP salmon derby is this weekend
Umpqua Post
The 14th annual salmon derby put on by Gardiner-Reedsport-Winchester Bay STEP members will take place on Saturday, ...
Really is the one that didn't get awayKATU
Outdoors forecast: Fall chinook fishing should improve in lower ColumbiaOregonLive.com

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Globe and Mail
Fraser River whopper sockeye salmon run even bigger
Seattle Times
A forecast released Tuesday by the Pacific Salmon Commission predicts some 34 million fish will return to spawn in the Fraser River, a substantial jump from ...
Salmon over-fishing warning issuedCBC.ca
Experts casting about for correct new salmon quotaGlobe and Mail
Fraser River Salmon Run On Canada's Pacific Coast Biggest In Almost A Century ...Huffington Post (blog)
The Record (New Westminster) -Vancouver Sun -Fish Update
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My wife recently had a girl's weekend in Australia, where she was able to sample some of the fantastic restaurants.

BusinessWorld Online
FDA to hold public consultations for GE salmon
Lexology (registration)
FDA has specifically invited participants to consider the following: (i) “Which facts about the AquAdvantage Salmon seem most pertinent for FDA's ...
How I Learned to Love Farmed FishTIME
FDA ponders genetically engineered salmoniTWire
FDA Considers Approval Of Genetically Altered SalmonRedOrbit
Food Safety News -Green Chip Stocks (blog) -CBC.ca
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Barnard Construction Company of Bozeman, Mont., was selected Aug. 26 as the contractor to remove the Elwha and Glines Canyon dams on the Olympic Peninsula's Elwha River.