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.
EXILE IN NICHEVILLE. Sandwiched between 80 million baby boomers and 78 million millennials, Generation X â roughly defined as anyone born between 1965 and 1980 â has just 46 million members, making it a dark-horse demographic condemned by numbers alone to nicheville, as Gordinier puts it in the book.