Harvested in the fall and winter months, Brussels sprouts are the perfect accompaniment to a cold weather dish such as roasted chicken, seared fish or pork tenderloin.

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Equally unfamiliar but more immediately palatable is a dish of cold soba noodles with tororo, a kind of mountain yam.

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Vengeance is a dish best served cold... and in this case, possibly, in buffet form.

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Today, as that dish is served to me ice-cold, I can tell you honestly it has never been about revenge.

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At the height of the Cold War, Karl had built his own secret satellite dish so he could watch the Eurovision Song Contest on Finnish TV.

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On a properly cold day, I like to prepare a traditional Japanese wintertime dish that is one of the best ways I know to appreciate kombu.

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