Those dishes, including red-cooked pork and pot stickers, were largely unknown at the time in America.

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That evening , the Lindens, their two sons and I feasted on a local version of the classic hong shao yu (red-cooked fish), fried until golden then braised in a soy-based sauce with fragrant seasonings like star anise, cinnamon and chili paste.

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Today also marks the culmination of Red Bull Stratos, the mission to break the freefall record cooked up back in 2005 by Red Bull, Baumgartner and Joe Kittinger, who previously held the jumping world record and who guided Baumgartner in his fall yesterday.

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Plump red pumpkins and squashes called kadhoos are pan-cooked with onions or transformed into halwa, a warm, melt-in-your-mouth dessert with the consistency of fudge.

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Radically different from the others, it features meat cooked on grills over open fires of native red oak, with and no rub or sauce, but heavy sprinkled seasoning.

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Is your paramour into the the textbook red roses and box of chocolates, or would they prefer a romantic home-cooked meal?

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Atlanta-based Ptek Ventures cooked up Million Dollar Challenge (sound vaguely familiar?), hosted by a Regis Philbin impersonator for Red Herring's Southeast venture conference in March.

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