Would you eat soup made in a lab?

Last night I saw a Campbell soup commercial stressing "farm-grown ingredients."

Aren't all soup ingredients farm-grown?

Unless, of course, they were making a distinction between their ingredients from the "lab-grown" meat that made the news last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Vancouver.



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Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger

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Sunday night pho

My favorite pho at my favorite Vietnamese restaurant is bun bo hue.

According to the server at this family restaurant that I visit weekly, bun is the type of noodle -- thick and round, like spaghetti but smooth and white -- and bo hue denotes the region the style of noodle soup comes from.

In addition to thin slices of rare beef, bun bo hue also has pork cake and is usually very spicy -- I always ask for it served plain and I add chilly oil to taste -- and with lots of been sprouts and basil.

Valentine's Dinner 2012