The intent behind the salad is to celebrate the fall abundance of apples and pears by showcasing them in salad, complete with in-season root vegetables and finished off with Concord grapes.

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Thus it gradually cut itself off from the only root of the power by which it might gain that role.

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He's become obsessive about vegetable juicing, and ticked off his favorite ingredients: kale, red chard, beets, lemon, spinach, ginger root.

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So off we went to New Jersey to be served by wenches, marvel at the jousting and root for the Spanish king to bequeath his daughter to a suitable swordsman.

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We will long debate whether at a very important moment in our efforts to root out terrorism particularly in Afghanistan and on that border region with Pakistan, whether we took our eye off the ball.

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