Stroll the boutiques of downtown Truckee, then grab dinner and jazz at Moody's Bistro and Lounge, which lives by local, seasonal ingredients, whether it's a Shaw Family Farm egg, a Durham Ranch steak, or Heidi Watanabe's tomatoes.

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Herbivores can choose from such delights as wood roasted ratatouille topped with a farm fresh egg.

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Raised on a Utah egg farm, Mr. Covey was educated at the University of Utah, Harvard University and at Brigham Young University, where his doctoral thesis concerned the history of American "success literature, " such as Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.

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John Foster, who runs a free-range egg farm at Moreleigh near Totnes, said he had been waiting for 15 potholes to be fixed on the road to his farm.

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