However, unlike death cap mushrooms and destroying angels, many of the toxins found in Amanita muscaria are water-soluble and can be removed by parboiling them prior to cooking or by other means.
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Matt Kasson,
Popular Science,
15 Oct. 2025
Blanch: Also known as parboiling, blanching involves cooking a food in boiling water for a short period of time, then quickly cooling it down in an ice bath to halt the cooking process.
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Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Sep. 2025
While Meta has made headlines for poaching OpenAI and Google DeepMind staffers with $100 million signing-bonuses in the AI race, at its core, the company is known for chasing up-and-coming talent.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
The Mountain West believes it is owed $55 million from the Pac-12 under the terms of a scheduling agreement signed in December 2023 that attached a price tag of approximately $11 million to any school the Pac-12 poached.
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Jon Wilner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
The director was asked if the deal with the steaming giant could compromise the film’s theatrical release in the same way as Ferrari, which bypassed cinemas in a number of key European territories such as France and Europe.
Now Zelensky arrives less as a supplicant and more like a friend and partner, while Russian President Vladimir Putin stews in the Kremlin, frozen—for the moment—from the diplomatic conversations.
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Tom Nagorski,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
Betrayed by his best friend and left alone to stew in it, Wes doesn’t take long to agree to back Roxie in the takeover.
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