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The family’s flower business relied on the San Francisco market, and they lost roughly 25 percent of their customers by the mid-1990s because of the AIDS crisis. California flower growers were also becoming crowded out by foreign competition.

Mash in the same saucepan with the butter, salt and pepper to season, and a splash of milk from your fridge too, if you like. The mash can be kept and gently reheated to serve with the casserole. Wash, shake dry and roughly chop the parsley.

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Cut off the entire flower head when you are ready to harvest the seeds. Next, place it in a net bag or tie a piece of cheesecloth around it before hanging it upside-down. The flower head should be hung in a warm, dry place with good air circulation for about three weeks. Seeds will drop out as they dry. Get the rest of the seeds out of the head by knocking it against a table or counter, or by rubbing two heads together. Be sure the seeds are fully dried before putting them in air-tight containers for storage. If the seeds are for the birds, no further processing is needed.

The study took place in Tanzania, but the problem is by no means isolated there. Chronic exposure to aflatoxin causes an estimated 25,000-155,000 deaths worldwide each year from corn and peanuts alone.

He plugged the figures into the internet site Over the Top for the approximate poundage. He figures there’s about a 10 percent margin of error for the squash that looks like it’s about to burst out of its skin.

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But the couple typically hedges their bets with other giant vegetables, including tomatoes, carrots and exotic gourds.

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A lifelong Republican, John Muller voted against the statewide measure in 2016 that legalized the recreational use of marijuana by adults. He was an outlier in Half Moon Bay, where 69 percent of voters backed it.

Red snapper ($39) with lentils and sweet grapes swam in a light, clear and blistering broth spiked with Calabrian chiles. Black cod ($39) — still on the menu, last I checked — comes with a silky purple yam puree, a minced hash of shiitake mushrooms and a luscious little quivering tangle of yuba — soybean curd — that plays like creamy little eddies of sweet, barely set egg whites.