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Just like grapes in winemaking, the type of rice and treatment it receives makes all the difference when it comes to that bottle of sake you blindly ordered off the sushi menu.

 

What a great first week of spring it's been! Since love is apparently in the air, we learned what to eat with our "friends with benefits," the ever-curious Tom Roston traced the gloomy demise of the rotten egg, sake is apparently more than something you chug before it gets cold and speaking of which, we got a bigger caffeine jolt than we were prepared for with hybrid coffee-tea drinks. Finally, something to keep us going all weekend long.   

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