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Fast Food’s Most Unhinged Mascots Are Back 

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Quiznos In 2003 the Spongmonkeys, a pair of potato-shaped, human-toothed, rodent(ish) critters became the unlikely faces of Quiznos. The year 2003 was a different time. They’re heavily influenced by strange-looking bears and tarsiers. The Spongmonkeys doing whatever the hell it is that they do. Now, 20 years later, they’re back.

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Feast on Sushi, Steak, and Globalization at Iraq’s American-Themed Buffet

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and France) established a no-fly zone over their territory following the Persian Gulf War, Iraqi Kurds leveraged the situation to create the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG); the 2003 U.S. ABC managed to tap into a growing professional middle class in the region, which has partly been fueled by American influence.

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“Family, History & Heritage” - Domaine des Graves d’Ardonneau

The Wine Knitter

The majority of vineyards here are cultivated on hillsides benefiting from ample sunshine conditions with a primarily temperate climate and a maritime influence. The intense heat began in the summer of 2003. Blaye covers 6500 hectares located on the Gironde Estuary. My father likes climate change because the grapes can mature longer.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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Plating has always been a consideration since the restaurant opened in 2003, but beginning around 2016, whimsical trompe l’oeil desserts became a regular part of the menu: toast that looks like a crab, fruit leather that looks like a beetle, all showing off the pastry chefs’ technical skills and mastery over their tools.

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Tanya Holland Aims for Impact

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This is Holland’s third cookbook; she published her first, New Soul Cooking , in 2003. Not long after the start of the new millennium, she followed California’s clarion call to Berkeley, where she began to fuse her training and influences as the head chef of a restaurant called Le Theatre. I am contributing and this is my story.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

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He even won the National Best Recipe award in 2003 for his turkey and hot sausage chili. Twenty years later, the Boston favorite is still being recognized for its uniqueness and influence on the Boston restaurant scene. He also owns other restaurants across the country, including Emeril’s New Orleans and Emeril’s Coastal Italian.

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SinglePlatform Customers on Food & Wine’s 40 Most Important Restaurants List

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He even won the National Best Recipe award in 2003 for his turkey and hot sausage chili. Twenty years later, the Boston favorite is still being recognized for its uniqueness and influence on the Boston restaurant scene. He also owns other restaurants across the country, including Emeril’s New Orleans and Emeril’s Coastal Italian.