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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to Women's World on radiolif. As a reminder,
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blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
read printed material. Today I will be reading from Better
Homes and Gardens magazine dated October twenty twenty five, and

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other publications as time allows. Your host today is Rosemary.
Newspaper and magazine articles presented in Women's World or for
general information only. RADIOI does not enduse, or recommend any
of the subjects mentioned the editor's letter from Oma Blaze Ford,

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Senior Executive editor, Gold and Crimson leaves rolling out across
hillsides like enthusiastic fans doing the wave across the stadium.
You pick apple orchards and corn maizes and pumpkin patches,
the hint of a crisp snap in the air, you know,

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sweat a weather. There's a lot to love about fall.
One of the things I like most about this season
is being able to turn on the oven to bake
something without making the whole house feel like we're channeling
the wicked Witch of the West. I'm melting humor me

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the reference. It's also Halloween month, after all, One year,
when I was buying a heap of beautiful heirloom pumpkins
for my porch from my local stand, the chatty farmer
wandered over to tell me that if I wanted to
cook them, the gray green one I had in my
hands was the most delicious. When the trick or treaters

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had all cleared out and the squirrels started feasting on
the jack o' lanterns, I took his advice and roasted
several of the big gourds we hadn't carved, ending up
with dozens of cups of exceptionally flavorful puree in my freezer.
Since then, one of my go to pumpkin recipe has

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been a sheet paan bar with brown butter frosting. This year,
I'm changing things up with the batch of the new
Tella Pumpkin spice bars or the Cardamom brown butter blondies
and how it takes two story. If I'm in the
mood for something a little brighter, I'll try the Lemon

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Macha marble cake, and if i want something a bit
more decadent, I'll make the Ultimate coffee House muffins from
our cover, or the Cowboy skillet cookie whatever your fall
flavor adventure looks like. I hope this issue has something
to satisfy. Happy sweat of weather to all who celebrate.

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From Oma, Oma Blazeford, Senior Executive Editor. Next the BHG
read Plaid Cafe. This month, we're hosting a very special
pop up cafe experience in New York City. Named after
a iconic Better Homes and Gardens cookbook and its red

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plaid cover. The event brings to life the cozy nostalgia
of the much loved cookbook through interactive sessions and fun
coffee chats with creators, editors, and featured celebrity desks guests.
We hope you can join us for more info and

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registration details. You can find and still have those housewarming
feels from our cafe culture in this issue. Next off
the page, bewitching to core trends, Will Gothic style still
rain as a winner for the spooky set. Will a

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new Fright Nights color scheme rival classic orange and black
trend experts weigh in so your Halloween decorating will be
the envy of all the neighborhood witches and wizards. That's
at BHG dot com slash Halloween Trends twenty twenty five.

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Cafe Core bring the feel of your favorite coffee shop
into your own home with design inspiration, coffeehouse style, recipe ideas,
and tips for brewing your perfect cup of Joe. Our
outline Cafe Core Special Edition has everything you need to
craft a cozy cafe vive at home that can be

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found at BHG dot com slash Cafe Core. Best in Butter,
the butteriwel is expansive. We snagged seventeen readily available butters
and put them through their paces, smearing on toast, baking
up biscuits, and sautain grilled cheeses to create our Ultimate Butterguide.

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Stick with us so that you'll know exactly which to
buy for what purpose, and that's at bhg dot com
slash Butterguide. Next bookmarked, Spotted, Loved, saved, kickback. This cozy
swap for a coffee table does double duty in style

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trend alert. Comfy upholstered ottomans are taking over living rooms everywhere.
Use instead of a coffee table. Oversize ottomans like the
one in this space by an Amber Lewis offer pattern,
texture and an easy place to put up your feet.

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Top them with a tray or books to create a
sturdy surface for beverages or snacks, and the automan picture
is a striped cloth brown and beige with a tray
and a planter and books. A top Next b News

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fire censor in the United States, a preventible electrical fire
sparks every ten minutes. Team can prevent four out of
five of them by detecting issues like hidden faults or
power surges. This plug in device installs in two minutes

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and monitors your home electrical system twenty four to seven.
The ting app and fire Prevention team will alert you
before the fire starts. And that's a ting censor with
fire prevention service designed by the book. A harvest of
beautiful new decorating books has hit the scene, and these

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are a few are especially obsessed with, packed full of gorgeous,
visual and emotional inspiration. Each one is a guide to
improving your overall life through your home by creating layered, personal,
idiosyncratic spaces that encourage you to step outside of your

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comfort zone. Case in point, this colorful, nuanced dining space,
which is pictured above by Hendrix Churchill, featured in the
studio's new title Distinctly American and the books are distinctly

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American design studio Hendrix Churchill's approach to creating authentic space.
The next book, Comforts of Home, bold color and designed
by interior designer Andrew Howard. The third book Spatial Alchemy,
Olga Nayman's guide to using your interiors as a tool

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for empowerment. And the last book, Design Reimagined where vibrant
maximalism and traditional style meat. Next, creepy crawley garlands make
your home spooky cute in a snap. These Halloween paper

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garlands available in beetles, bats, and spiders on fifteen feet
of twine you can shorten as needed to fit your space.
Dress up mantles, chair railings, and entry way mirrors. Drape
across a bookshelf, above your kitchen window or around your

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front door for a skin but not too scary welcome
a bonus, you can reuse them year after year. Next
under Drink Thrills and Chills. Drink up if you dare.
There's something for every ghul and goblin in this batch

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of potent potions and swirling elixirs and picture is a
dragon fruit punch, a poison apple sour, a cranberry zombie mocktail,
a magic Macha Boba latte, The dragon Fruit punch pair

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dragon fruit, the pink, mildly sweet flesh of the funky
tropical fruit with a many dragon excise scoop of melon
sorbet an effervescent prosecco. The poison Apple sour. This cocktail
is loosely based on a classic sour ratio. Two parts spirit,

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one part sour, one part sweet. Vodka meets sour apple
schnapps and hard apple cider. For sweetness, pour a bit
of grenadine over a barspoon to create the layered look.
The Cranberry Zombie mocktails, a homemade cranberry syrup cuts the sweetness.

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It makes it look just like Dracula just just took
a sip in this icy blender beverage of orange, pineapple,
and lime juices. For a boozy rendition, add a shot
of white rum. And for the Magic Macha Boba latte,

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tint homemade simple syrup with butterfly pe pea flour powder.
Then layer indigo syrup with milk, boba pearls and a
green macha tea float and the recipes for the mocktails
are the dragon fruit punch start to finish time ten minutes.

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The ingredients are one a twelve ounce package frozen dragon
fruit cube such as Sambosen thowd, one point mango sorbet,
twelve ounces of a lemon, lime, soda or persecco. Place
dragon fruit in a blender, cover and blend until smooth.

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Spoon about three tablespoons fruit per array in each of
six eight ounce glasses. Top with small scoops of the
mango sorbet, about one third cup per glass. Slowly pour
two ounces or one fourth cup soda or prosecco into

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each glass, and the recipe makes six drinks. That was
the dragon fruit punch. For the poison apple sour, the
start to finish time is five minutes. The ingredients are
one ounce two tablespooned vodka one ounce to a stable,

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two tablespoons sour apple schnapps such as Do Cooper Hooker
ice cubes, one and one half ounce, three tablespoons hard
apple cider chilled, one teaspoon grenadine, gummy candy eyeball or
apple slice for garnish, which is optional. In a mixing

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glass or cocktail shaker, combine vodka and sour apple schnapps
filled glass or shaker with ice. Stir or cover and
shake until chilled one minute. Strain into a coop glass
top with hard apple cider. Insert a bar spoon into

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the glass. Slowly pour the grenadine down the spoon, allowing
you to settle at the bottom of the glass, or
slowly pour grenadine down the inside side of glass. If
you like garnish with a gummy eyeball. This recipe makes
one drink the poison apple sour the cranberry zombie mocktails.

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The cranberry syrup may seem thin, but it will thicken
as it chills. For a boozy version, add two ounces
white rum to each serving in step three. Hands on
time for the recipe fifteen minutes. Total time forty five minutes.

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The ingredients are one cup fresh or frozen cranberries, one
half cup sugar, two cups crushed ice or three cups
ice cubes, one cup fresh orange juice, one cup unsweetened
pineapple juice, one fourth cup fresh lime juice from two

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medium limes. In a small saucepan, stir together crayanberries, sugar,
and one fourth cup water. Bring to boiling. Reduce heat
to medium, simmer uncovered stirring occasionally six minutes. Pour mixture

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through a fine mesh sieve, pressing with the back of
a spoon. Discard the solids. Let's cool five minutes, Cover
and chill syrup at least fifteen minutes and up to
twelve hours in a blender. Combine ice, orange juice, pineapple juice,

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and lime juice. Cover and blend until smooth, adding more
ice as needed. To reach desired slushy consistency. Drizzle cranberry
syrup around the inner edges of four eight to ten
ounce glasses so it drips down. Pour juice slush into glasses.

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This recipe makes four drinks, and that's the Cranberry Zombie
mocktails and the Magic Macha Boba lattes. Look for uncooked
boba pearls or pearled to tapioca in the tea or
beverage isle of Asian markets and large grocery stores. Prepare

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according to package directions, or look for pre cooked boba pearls.
Start to finish time twenty minutes. The ingredients are one
half cup sugar, one half teaspoon, butterfly pea flour powder,

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four teaspoons macha green tea powder one cup plus one
tablespoon hot water, two cups whole milk, two teaspoons vanilla,
crushed ice, one half to three fource cup cooked brown
sugar or plain boba pearls in a small saucepan, whisked

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together sugar, butterfly, pea flour and one half cup cold water.
Cook stirring over a medium until sugar is dissolved one minute.
Remove from heat, cover, let steep ten minutes. Pour syrup

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through a fine mesh sieve into a small glass measuring cup.
Let cool. Meanwhile, in a two cup glass measuring cup,
whisk together macha and the one tablespoon hot water until
smooth thirty seconds. Add remaining one cup hot water, whisking

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constantly until completely combined, and another two cup glass measuring cup.
Stir together milk and vanilla. For each drink. Pour two
tablespoons pee flour syrup into a ten to twelve ounce
glass topped with crushed ice. Add two to three tablespoons

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boba pearls to each glass. Slowly pour one half cup
of the milk mixture into each glass over the back
of a spoon. Pouring layer ingredients over a spoon helps
keep the layers separated in the glass, slowly pour one

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fourth cup matcha tea over the back of a spoon
into milk layer. This recipe makes four drinks the magic
Macha Boba lattes. Next Good Nights, look to the skies
for magical moonlight inspiration that make your own enchanted scene

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for your front door decor a lighting tip for your pumpkins.
For a clean design, carve a hole in the bottom
of your pumpkin and sert a battery operated tea light
for a glow that can go all night. Try any

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or all of these ways to craft a set of
delight full celestial pumpkins. Use our design templates to transfer
star and moon shapes before carving or etching. The look
of distant stars or swirling patterns can be created by

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a drill in a variety of bit sizes. If you're
not into the mess that comes with carving, try paint
or adhesive vinyl shapes to make designs like the black
moon and stars. Scrapbook supplies like adhesive back gems, charms,

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and feathers make it quick and easy to dress up
a pumpkin. A white chalk marker allows you to trace
your design directly on the pumpkin, and it contrasts nicely
against the deep orange. Next so librating cafe culture, we're

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hosting a pop up cafe event in New York City
on October seventeenth. Join us for a cup and inspiring
coffee chats with special guests. What is it about a
coffee house that always feels so comforting. Maybe it's the

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rituals of the cafe, the hiss of steam, the scent
of fresh coffee grounds, the hum of conversations. Maybe it's
the spaces themselves, like little havens of coziness, where caffeine
and creativity collide like a good mocha. It's probably a

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delicious mix of all those elements. In these pages, we're
spilling the beans on what makes cafes our sanctuaries and
how to create something of that convivial ambionce at home.
We've also got our favorite tools for making and serving
a satisfying cuppa, plus recipes for coffee house inspired muffins.

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We invite you to sit back, relax, and drink in
the good cheer of cafe culture steeped in comfort. There'd
be no cafe core without the esthetic cred of the
best looking cafes. Peek into a few of our favorites,

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and bring a shot of signature style home in Washington
to see the Tate Bakery. Stepping inside this du Pont
Circle Bakery is like slipping into a light filled Parisian patisserie,
thanks to mosaic toil floors and cocoa and cream, polished

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subway towels that span the wall floor to ceiling, and
burnished woods that glow like drizzled honey in the sunlight.
A bistro chair, a timeless works anywhere bentwood chair in
a warm finish, mosaic mugs, a splash of bistro tie

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without the need to renovate. An arched cabinet, black stained
wood with an arch top that evokes French architecture, movable woodshells,
store coffee gear, and a barn light. Add one or
two to your kitchen for a touch of cafe industrial style.

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Next Cafe Saint Petersburg, Florida. The paradeco coffee roasters, banquettes
and flamenco pink, a wall scale bursting with foliage and
curves at every turn down through this Art Deco inspired cafe, Leoni,

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white marble top and gold tulip dining table pink and
blue pastel geometrics with subtle gold foil details. A wall
planter cluster two or three to create a vertical wall garden.
The dining chair palette side dining number five. The buffet

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table fluted details in gold hardware give this little cabinet
big style. And finally a candle holder shiny brass with
all the details. A fever dream of pastel hughes and
art deco lines. Paradeco is a kin to Wes Anderson

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on a beach side Vaca. Next cafe color Wisconsin. The
greenhouse a botanical fantasy transported across the pond from England's
Lancashire County to the American Midwest. Lush and leafy botanicals,
potted palms, marble top bistrow tables, cane chairs and glimmering

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stained glass fills straight from a conservatory. The pendant light
is a recycled glass pendant. The dining chair easy going
black bent wood and cane blur the lines between modern
and traditional wall mural no arch leaded windows. Get that

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magical greenhouse fill in paper form botanical greenhouse print textured wallpaper.
The bistrow table, a round white marble and black metal
bistro side table, and final, finally, artificial greenery a faux

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banana leaf tree. Next in the cafe culture coffee and
cream paint colors like an espresso crowned with a cloud
of whipped foam. The color pairing of rich browns and
milky whites is pure, comfort, quite and easy to live with.

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It's also a classic that doesn't age, and designers know
that shades of cocoa, cinnamon, and raw sugar paired with
cream hues create depth without heaviness. Four pro show us
why this palette, like a cappuccino from your favorite coffee shop,

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is an invitation to slow your scroll and savor the coziness.
To set the tone, combining brown can create instant tone
on tone warmth as this dining room is aloft designed
by Billy Cotton Proofs, which is pictured. Just keep their

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undertone similar so that they don't clash, says daniel LeBlanc,
studio manager for the firm. Color temperature is key to harmony.
These surfaces are all warm and rich, so they blend
nicely without feeling too neutral. The akrew and alabaster elements

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feel balanced thanks to their colossal footprint. This is immediately calming.
Le Bank says, when choosing whites to pair with brown,
choose warm whites that aren't too stark to create a
gentle contrast rather than one that fills too graphic by

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sticking to a cohesive palette of creams in mid tone
white oak. In a living room, designer Marie Nursino put
the focus on texture. Whitewashed brick, an upholstered chair, a
wool rug all play together nicely to bring that warmth

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and depth. She says. Their pale, nubby surfaces are complimented
by tactile wood tones in the paneled shelving units, live
edged coffee table and woven rope chair, carmel walls, temper
vibrant artwork in this pictured open plan kitchen by design

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firm Salvason Grahat, while mellows whites create a gentle contrast.
This concludes Women's World for today. Your reader has been Rosemary.
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