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For more than 30 years at Piñons, guests have craved signature Dover sole flown in fresh from across the pond. Unfortunately for slackers, the dining room is booked now past New Year’s Day. While bar seats are usually walk-in only, Piñons owner Rob Mobilian says he’ll take early bar table reservations until about 6 p.m. Come for the buttery, lemony sole or choose the $35 two-course bar menu, one of the great deals in town. 105 S. Mill St., 970-920-2021, pinons.net

Known to many people as the Viagra of the food variety, one of the major advantages of watermelon is that is can help relax the blood vessel without any side effect.

“This guy Vincent from Chablis in Burgundy, who supplies some of our vegetables, comes to Paris only on Wednesdays,” explains Omar. “I do my shopping from his truck outside the restaurant and then he moves on. Sometimes I’ll ask, ‘Do you have the same turnips you had last week? Because they were beautiful.’ And he’ll be like, ‘Sorry, Giovanni [Passerini, chef at the eponymous Italian restaurant on nearby rue Traversiere] took everything.’ It happens a lot.”

You can wait until New Year’s Eve to set forth goals — but it could be the wrong time to make a change.

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The largest pumpkin ever grown in North America, on display at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.

These rich-flavored nuts are technically the seed of a tropical evergreen tree called Anacardium occidentale, which is native to Brazil, though cashews were also exported to India in the 1550’s. The cashew seed is surrounded by a shell that contains anacardic acid, a skin irritant related to urushiol, which is found in poison ivy. However, no need to panic–it is only the shell that is toxic! Once roasted or heated, as all commercially sold cashews have been (even the ones labeled “raw”), this nut is perfectly safe to eat. Cashews, similar to sesame seeds, are an excellent source of copper, and just 1/4 a cup contains roughly 30% of the DRA of magnesium, phosphorus, and manganese.

The couple’s entry in the Champlain Valley Fair took third place: a 797-pounder, grown in a mere 54 days.

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You can prepare watermelon seeds by roasting them in an oven for 20 minutes before washing and drying them up. Here is how to do it:

Nyjer, or thistle, seeds are the second most popular food with backyard bird feeders. The small, thin seeds are attractive to finches, goldfinches, pine siskins and redpolls.

This unintentional pairing might go down as my most swoonworthy of 2018. A crunchy, sugary, cinnamon-spiced, deep-fried croissant washed down with smooth, jammy cabernet sauvignon from the rink-side snack bar (as in: full bar, with snacks) operated by Sweet Coloradough of Glenwood Springs.