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Lifestyle

Preparing your home for winter

Cold weather and those high heating bills are on the way. Home maintenance expert John Trostle has ideas for keeping the cold out of your home.

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A chronicle of American life through food

The Kitchen Sisters, an award-winning radio production team, are turning their attention toward food -- how Americans gather and cook in the most unexpected places. They call those places Hidden Kitchens.

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Garden Guru

It's time to put gardens to bed. Deb Brown has tips for getting your yard ready for the next growing season.

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Thanksgiving Pie

Anne Dimock's recipe for Thanksgiving Pie.

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A chat with the pie lady

Anne Dimock is a pie lover. She grew up making apple pies at her mother's elbow, and now bakes from her home in Afton, Minnesota. Dimock has written a book called "Humble Pie: Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust."

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Making art with the feather lady

It's pheasant season in the upper Midwest, and that brings hunters to the prairies in search of the ring-necked bird. But for one Minnesota woman known as the feather lady, pheasant season brings something very different.

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Musicland hopes "Graze"-ing customers will revive music sales

Few businesses have had a harder time in recent years than the music store, because of competition from online shopping, music download sites, and CD sales at big stores like Wal-Mart. One of the nation's biggest chains, Minneapolis-based Sam Goody, hopes to change its fortunes by encouraging people to just...hang out.

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