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A recipe for Short Rib Meatballs With Farro and Carrot Salad.

A recipe for Short Rib Meatballs With Farro and Carrot Salad.

Under the new rule, grocery stores will have to identify the country of origin for meats, produce and certain nuts.

Matambre, a flank steak stuffed with vegetables, herbs, hard-cooked egg and seasonings, is a contraction of the Spanish words for “kill” and “hunger.”

Topping pasta with sautéed ground lamb and yogurt is a simple way to replicate an exquisitely wrought Turkish dish.

A recipe for Stuffed Flank Steak (Matambre).

A recipe for Pasta with Turkish-Style Lamb, Eggplant and Yogurt Sauce.

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I’ve always loved the little Turkish lamb dumplings called manti, so I was psyched to see this New York Times story on how to make manti the easy way. Instead of hand-rolling and filling pasta dough, a delicate and time-consuming process, the author tosses sauteed lamb with pre-made bowtie pasta, yogurt, roasted eggplant, red-pepper-infused browned butter, garlic and mint. Yum.

You can deconstruct all kinds of complicated pasta dishes. I like taking the flavors from my favorite butternut squash ravioli and letting it all hang out, tossing together sauteed squash cubes, orcchiette, sage, brown butter and Parmesan. Oprah’s got a similar recipe.

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More than 1,000 people are believed to have contracted rabies after eating beef from an infected cow, The Daily Times of Malawi reported this week.

More than 1,000 people are believed to have contracted rabies after eating beef from an infected cow, The Daily Times of Malawi reported this week.