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MIAMI, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chef Adrianne Calvo is now celebrating the 5th year anniversary of her namesake restaurant, Chef Adrianne's vineyard restaurant and wine bar. For her 28 years she has had a striking career where she has been able to blow away critics and judges winning accolades like the Iron Fork, being the spokesperson for Panda Kitchen and Bath, weekly spots on Univision, Clearchannel radio, and NBC 6, Food Network's Chopped and her own show in the works. Some...

In prehistoric times farmers across the world domesticated wild plants to create an agricultural revolution. As a result the ancestral plants have been lost, causing problems for anyone studying the domestication process of modern-day varieties, but that might change. A team led by Fabiola Parra at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) has managed to trace a domesticated cactus, the Gray Ghost Organ Pipe (Stenocereus pruinosus) to its living ancestor that can still be found...