Many of the companies are in the Golden Rind, a swath of land in the flats of the East Bay in the San Francisco area.

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Ms. Techamuanvivit also recommended rinsing bergamots before using them, which helps to tame the intense acridity of the rind.

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Beatification, his so-called "sonambic" (a lambic from Sonoma County, get it?) is edgy and dry, with hints of grapefruit rind.

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It was reduced to a kind of nibbled cheese rind, and it always disappeared before we expected it to.

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Then another Morton brother, David, 35, unearthed obscure papers from the University of Madras in India and Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan that suggested a connection between the mangosteen rind and xanthones, which have antioxidant properties.

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