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NOT ALL CARROTS ARE ORANGE
Carrots are grown on  and in family gardens throughout the world. Carrots are easy to raise and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot of carotene, which the body makes into vitamin A.
When people think of carrots, they usually picture in their mind a vegetable that is long, thin and orange in color. But carrots come in many different and shapes. Andnot all carrots are orange. For example, Paris Market carrots are about five centimeters around. Imperator carrots are thin and about twenty-five centimeters long. And Belgian White carrots are, as their  suggests, white.

For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold for a long time. The soil also should have no rocks. To prepare your carrot garden, dig up thesoil, loosen it and turn it over. Then, mix in some plant material or  fertilizer.  Weather, soil conditions and age will affect the way carrots taste. Experts say warm days, cool  and a medium soil temperature are the best conditions for growing carrots that taste great.

Carrots need  to develop their full sugar content. This gives them their taste. If they are harvested too early, they willnot have enough sugar. But carrots loose their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground.

The best way to judge if a carrot is ready to be harvested is by its color. Usually, the  the color, the better the taste. Most people do not know that carrots can be grown during the winter months. If the winter is not cold enough to freeze the ground, you can grow and harvest carrots thesame way as during the  months. If the ground does freeze in your part of the world, simply cover your carrot garden with a  layer of leaves or straw. This will prevent the ground from freezing. You can remove the ground cover and harvest the carrots as they are needed.

Carrots are prepared and eaten many different ways. They are cut in thin pieces and added to other vegetables. They arecooked by themselves or added to . Or, once they are washed, they are eaten just as they come out of the .

MCDONALD'S TARGETS STARBUCKS
McDonald's, the fast-food company, is heating up competition with the Starbucks Coffee Company. McDonald's plans to put  bars in its fourteen thousand restaurants in the United States. Fewer than a thousand now offer specialty coffee drinks like lattes andcappuccinos.

Just like Starbucks, each coffee bar would have its own barista, the person who makes and serves the . Company documents reported by the Wall Street Journal said the plan would add one billion dollars a year in sales. McDonald's has enjoyed several years of strong growth. The company had almost twenty-two billion dollars in sales in two thousand six.

Still, the move to compete againstStarbucks carries some risk. Some experts say it could slow down  at McDonald's restaurants. And some people who are happy with McDonald's the way it is now may not like the changes. As early as two thousand one the company tested McCafes in the United States to sell specialty coffee at McDonald's restaurants. But the drinks were not available at the drive-through windows that provide two-thirdsof its business. McDonald's thinks its new plan has a greater chance of success. Starbucks, on the other , has faced slower growth and increasing competition. Its stock has lost about half its value since last January. Starbucks has about ten thousand stores in the United States. Its high-priced coffee drinks have names like Iced Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha and Double Chocolate ChipFrappuccino. Lately Starbucks has added more foods, including breakfast foods, and put drive-through  in some stores.

This week, the company replaced its chief executive officer, bringing back former C.E.O. Howard Schultz. He remains chairman of the board. He joined Starbucks in nineteen eighty-two, when it had just four stores. He is credited with building the Seattle company into an international...