Tips for Washing Produce. Keep in mind that produce is a raw product, grown in dirt, which is handled by lots of people before it ever gets into your kitchen. Bacteria can be transferred from dirt residue, or from any of the people handling the produce before and after it arrives in the supermarket. To ensure the safety of your produce, including organic produce, it's important to wash it well, using proper technique, experts say.
Devlin explains: The birthday problem asks how many people you need to have at a party so that there is a better-than-even chance that two of them will share the same birthday. Most people think the answer is 183, the smallest whole number larger than 365/2. In fact, you need just 23.
Then, while reading a magazine story about homelessness, she started to wonder whether homeless kids were ever celebrated. Chenault called Family Gateway and offered to throw a party for the shelter's kids. Since then, the Birthday Party Project has feted 3,000 birthdays in all, with about 20,000 kids in attendance at the parties. By Thursday night's end, London would be decorating cookies, batting around balloons and opening donated gifts along with seven other kids marking December birthdays at Family Gateway.