Bath Rug Choice

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Cook's Choice is the manufacturer of the original Onion Blossom Maker, and is made right here in Texas. You have seen the Onion Blossom Maker on TV. You have seen the Onion blossom Maker in web searches. You have seen the Onion blossom in popular restaurants, fairs, and festivals. Now you can own the original Onion Blossom Maker to make perfect Onion Blossoms in your home, and really impress your family and friends. An Onion Blossom is a whole onion that has been cored and sliced in such a way that it resembles a flower that has blossomed, then breaded, seasoned, and deep fried. The trick is in the breading and slicing of the onion. The Onion Blossom Maker is perfect for slicing onions and it will even work just as well on apples, oranges, tomatoes, bell peppers, etc...even boiled eggs.

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Every by Levitt, Steven D. and Stephen J. Dubner

Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe