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Friday, November 21, 2008

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The Buzz: Will Garangelo's rise again?
By Mary Kunz Goldman
News Columnist

Updated: 11/20/08 1:57 PM

Cafe Garangelo on Hertel always reminded Buzz of an Italian opera, and now that it’s closed, it still does. “Oh, honey, it’s the economy,” owner Shirley Galluzzo lamented, distraught, when we called her.
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Best Bets /Tips for family fun
By Jane Kwiatkowski
News Staff Reporter

Updated: 11/20/08 2:29 PM

1. Talk about training grounds. Visit the Hamburg Fairgrounds this weekend for miles of model train track. That’s right, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Sunday, the Western New York Railway Historical Society presents its holiday Train and Toy Show.
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Miss Manners: Redirect conversation back where it belongs
By Judith Martin
Columnist

Updated: 11/20/08 4:14 PM

Dear Miss Manners: Many times, I will find myself in a group of people including a very young child or a very elderly person.
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Social Notes

Updated: 11/20/08 6:13 AM

Variety Club Women of Tent 7 will have its Thanksgiving luncheon at 11:30 a. m. Saturday in the American Legion Post 35, West Seneca. Food collected in the annual food drive will be donated to Loaves and Fishes Kitchen.
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Other Life News

Facing the Thanksgiving dinner dilemmas

Decisions, decisions –always decisions. You might think that Thanksgiving dinner was a given. A formula, frozen in tradition. Carved in stone.

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Carolyn Hax: Divorces raise loyalty questions

Dear Carolyn: My husband says that since my two brothers divorced, their exes are out of our family. I am nice to my brothers’ new girlfriends, but they were both married for 20 years, and I think of the exes as my sisters.

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Janice Okun: Language lessons for restaurant servers

Restaurant Speak — yes, there is such a thing. And I’m not talking about “Adam and Eve on a Raft” or any other vivid order codes, shouted by servers to the cooks in the kitchen.

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How to prep, cook and present your holiday turkey

Step-by-step instructions from the November 2008 issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine provide an easy way to prep, cook and present your holiday turkey.

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The season’s best crumble

We’re so used to making crisps that when a new recipe lands in our inbox, the first thing we do is head for the kitchen — which is exactly what we did when the Cranberry Crumble showed up. Then we took another look and a red flag caught our eye. Instead of the crisps we’re used to, with lots of fruit and crumbly brown sugar toppings, this one had a layer of vanilla buttermilk cake in the middle. What really made us hesitate was the directions for making the cake. There was no mention of stir, beat, or whisk. Instead the whole shebang went into the processor, and the blade did all the work.

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Columns

Carolyn Hax
Carolyn Hax: Divorces raise loyalty questions

Dear Carolyn: My husband says that since my two brothers divorced, their exes are out of our family. I am nice to my brothers’ new girlfriends, but they were both married for 20 years, and I think of the exes as my sisters.

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