Instead of fruit-tree wood, the ducks here are cooked in an oven with straw as fuel.

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Ducks here are roasted with fruit-tree wood, giving the dish a special fragrance.

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While off-the-cuff comments about tree size may provide low-hanging fruit for late-night shows, they are not usually a good measure of a speech.

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For your health and pocketbook, read The End of Medicine--more fruit from Schumpeter's tree.

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Scientists at the University of California helped by creating a W. Murcott tree that produced near-seedless fruit, even when visited by bees.

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For decades, passers-by affixed their chewed Bubblicious and Juicy Fruit to tree outside a cheese steak joint creating a technicolor gummy mosaic all Philadelphians came to know if not love, and now it's gone.

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