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The perennial rice 'Yunda 107' is harvested in the Yunnan Province of China. Perennial rice can be harvested for successive regrowth seasons, maintaining a relatively stable yield and greatly reducing labor input. China News Service/China News Service via Getty Ima hide caption

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Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again

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Tamar Adler is the author of The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z, which focuses on creatively reusing leftovers. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption

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Tamar Adler shows you how to make the most of your leftovers in her new cookbook

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Homa Dashtaki is the founder of The White Moustache yogurt company. (Her father's moustache inspired the name.) Her new book is called Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life. Mobolaji Adeolu/The White Moustache hide caption

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If you want to up your yogurt game, this Iranian cookbook will show you the whey

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The U.N.-chartered vessel MV Valsamitis is loaded to deliver 25,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat to Kenya and 5,000 tons to Ethiopia. It is pictured at the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk in February. Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A Tyson food product is seen in Montpelier, Vt., on Nov. 18, 2011. Tyson Foods says the company is closing two facilities that employ more than 1,600 people in an effort to streamline its U.S. poultry business. Toby Talbot/AP hide caption

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Eugenia Cheng is a mathematician and author of the book How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics. Throughout the book, she uses baking as a vehicle for better understanding mathematics concepts. Basic Books hide caption

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This Pi Day, how to BAKE pi(e) — and have mathematical fun

This March 14, Short Wave is celebrating pi ... and pie! We do that with the help of mathematician Eugenia Cheng, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and author of the book How to Bake Pi. We start with a recipe for clotted cream and end, deliciously, at how math is so much more expansive than grade school tests.

This Pi Day, how to BAKE pi(e) — and have mathematical fun

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The global flagship store for Kura Sushi, a Japanese conveyor-belt sushi restaurant chain, is pictured here in January 2020 in Tokyo. Conveyor-belt sushi restaurants have been the target of a spate of pranks. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Chefs Von Diaz, Mayukh Sen, Reem Assil and Priya Krishna. NPR hide caption

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A Toblerone chocolate bar, pictured with the Matterhorn in the background. The company will replace the iconic peak on its label with a more generic mountain as a result of manufacturing changes. Fabrice Coffini/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Cover art of Raghavan Iyer's new book "On The Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World" Courtesy of Workman Publishing hide caption

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Iconic Indian-American Chef Reflects On His Life And The Healing Power Of Food

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A farmer checks wheat ripeness on a field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the "breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption

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The impact of the Ukraine war on food supplies: 'It could have been so much worse'

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(Left) A Ukrainian chef prepares mashed potatoes in the kitchen at Yoy restaurant. (Right) Traditional Ukrainian beet stew known as borsch is being prepared. It's the restaurant's most popular dish. Aya Batrawy/NPR hide caption

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Milk is displayed at a grocery store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals – and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption

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Matt Baker, chef and owner of Gravitas, poses for a portrait Feb. 14 inside the restaurant in Washington. Gravitas has a subscription service offering a monthly meal for two. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption

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A woman tends to lentil soup at a municipal soup kitchen in Gaziantep, Turkey. On the first day after the quake, the kitchen's director says they distributed soup to more than 200,000 people. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Lentil soup comes to the rescue in quake-ravaged Turkey

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A new study looks for associations between changes in alcohol consumption and the risk of dementia, in research that is based on nearly 4 million people in South Korea. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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Guests enjoying a glass of wine at Vinyl Tasting's dinner on Jan. 22. Each menu comes with a wine pairing list at an extra fee – tickets range from about $60 to $100 per person. Shanel Dewalt hide caption

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For 2 chefs in Detroit, music is a passion they can taste — literally

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An order of Buffalo chicken wings sits on a counter at a restaurant in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2022. Party trays of frozen chicken wings are cheaper than last year, according to the USDA. The National Chicken Council expects Americans to gobble up 1.45 billion wings this weekend. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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Your Super Bowl platter may cost less this year – if you follow these menu twists

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