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• 'Cake Bible' author Rose Levy Beranbaum shares recipe for the ulimate Valentine's Day gift

  When Rose Levy Beranbaum thinks about Valentine's Day, it's not the candlelit dinners, handwritten cards or bouquets of long-stemmed roses that come to her mind. Instead, the Cake Bible author is brought back to her childhood. »Read Story...
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• Homegrown: For some Santa Fe chocolatiers, 'it's all about Valentines Day'

  A quick visit to Santa Fe's half-dozen artisanal chocolate shops two weeks before Valentine's Day revealed a bustling economic surprise: Local chocolatiers were filling Internet and phone orders and packing their painstakingly crafted fresh passionflower truffles, wax-dipped raspberry ganache hearts and Hatch red-chile peanut brittles just as fast as they can make them. »Read Story...
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• A Wonderful Life: Virginia Hamilton

  For Virginia Hamilton, growing up in Kansas during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl was difficult. "We were dry land farmers. If it didn't rain, we starved. When I was 7 my father could no longer keep up the payments on the land, so everything was taken away -- our chickens, cows and all of the equipment. My parents were brokenhearted. It was the end of their lives as they knew it," said 81-year-old Hamilton. »Read Story...
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• Faces and places, Feb. 5, 2012

  Animal Humane New Mexico has elected its slate of officers for 2012 and added three new directors to its board. Ben Benjamin, a retired attorney and teacher, has been elected president; Michelle Franks, chief financial officer for Studio Southwest Architects, Inc., will become vice president; Krik Mielke, a manager at Atkinson & Co., returns for a third term as treasurer, and Jose Blanton, an attorney for the Rodey Law Firm, will serve as secretary. »Read Story...
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• El Mitote, Feb. 5, 2012

  That brilliant actor and musical-comedy master Mandy Patinkin and his wife, actress and playwright Kathryn Grody, stayed at La Fonda on the Plaza not long ago during a City Different visit. »Read Story...
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