Coming in first place, by the way, in the bedandbreakfast.com pancake competition is a long-shot, dark-horse entry: a lemon-blueberry ricotta-cheese pancake with a sweet lemon sauce, garnished with fresh strawberries.

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It might be kolaches and klobasneks yeasted rolls with a changing roster of, respectively, sweet (Meyer-lemon cream) and savory (Czech-style sausage and farmstead cheddar) fillings.

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"It's a flavor as sweet and tart as Liz Lemon herself, " Mr. Greenfield said.

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"They like mild cheddars, and also the blended white stiltons that are quite sweet - with mango, cranberry, ginger and lemon, " he said.

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Citrus bergamia, as it's known in botanical circles, first showed up 300 years ago in Southern Italy, the result of crossbreeding a sour orange with "something else, " variously identified as a citron, a lemon, a lime or a Palestine sweet lime.

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For something more local, try a cup of Southern Sweet, a zesty concoction that mixes black tea with lemon and home grown mint.

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We're going to be doing the Southside mule, where we're going to be taking some American whiskey and a little bit of fresh lemon and simple syrup to make it nice and sweet.

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But when the greens are braised with preserved lemon, the grains are tossed with toasted pistachios and a drizzle of punchy-sweet pomegranate syrup enters the picture, you get an indulgent meal that transports you to the banks of the Bosporus.

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