Baseball—it’s as American as hamburgers and apple pie. And when you’re cheering on the New York Mets at Citi Field, baseball dining is also as Italian as Nicoletta, as Japanese as Fuku and as Mexican as El Verano Taqueria. Since Citi Field opened in 2009, it’s been dispelling the notion of ballpark dining and drinking as merely boiled hot dogs and warm beer. 

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If female composters in Queens reflect what’s happening in the industry overall, women are a far cry from the “pretty lonesome bunch” that Ginny Black found when she got her start in the field 25 years ago. “Composting grew out of the traditional recycling arena and that was a male-dominated industry,” said Black, chair of the Composting Council Research and Education Foundation. But they’ve come a long way, baby.

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