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member name: Kevin Weeks
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March 10, 2007 10:44 PM EST --
"Accede gracefully to the inevitable." This is my motto. It is expressed at greater length in the Serenity Prayer:
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage . . .
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November 25, 2007 02:14 PM EST --
D uring my long absence from East Tennessee there were three things I missed most, in fact they're the only three things I can specifically recall missing. Not surprisingly, they're all food. . . .
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February 02, 2008 01:03 PM EST --
I n my house there is one kind of food that is not tolerated -- bland food.
I can stand too much of almost anything, but not enough flavor is an abomination. A sin of omission by commission. Intolerable! . . .
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March 17, 2007 04:41 PM EDT --
Geeks come in all sizes, shapes, religions, colors, and areas of geekdom. I have a good friend who's a financial geek -- she really gets off on things like estate planning and income averaging. Go . . .
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June 18, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Unlike most folks, I learned to grill meat over wood. I grew up on a small farm in Eastern Tennessee within sight of the Smoky Mountains. Only about half of the 40 acres we owned were cleared, the rest . . .
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July 29, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Obsession -- a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling
Yes. The small container above contains lamb juices -- Perhaps 2 ounces? -- that escaped from a grilled leg . . .
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August 27, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
I know some chefs, quite a few actually, who argue that details such as the carbon content of a knife or the construction of a skillet don’t matter. What matters is the chef's knowledge and skill. . . .
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May 06, 2009 08:18 PM EDT --
On a spring evening I passed away quietly while napping on the couch.
Or perhaps it was a winters night in a burst of glowing agony,
Snatched from my sleep in a twisting paroxysm of pain.
Maybe it . . .
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June 11, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
Three weeks ago in "Teach Your Children Well" I wrote: "It seems that more and more folks either don’t cook at all or cook as a matter of self-image and for the sake of conveying . . .
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July 02, 2007 07:28 PM EDT --
I'm 53 years old and I've lived far longer than I ever thought I would.
I grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, just 10 miles away from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory where most of the technology . . .
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August 22, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
"Where's the tamarind?"
"Tamarind?"
"Tamarind!"
The Paisano was now looking in cabinets that held only pots and pans, perhaps assuming I had . . .
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August 22, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
Back in the early '60s the burgers sold for 12 cents apiece; my mother could feed herself and three kids for about $3.00 and during the summer she did so once every week or so. The four of us sat in . . .
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January 07, 2008 10:33 AM EST --
W hen I walk into any of the five grocery stores I regularly shop at I turn to the right and enter the produce section. It's in the same spot in every store. (In fact, most people on entering . . .
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April 24, 2007 04:04 PM EDT --
I eagerly anticipate the spring startup of the farmers' markets each year. They begin around the end of April and stretch through to October. There are four in my area, one on Wednesday, one on Thursday, . . .
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May 21, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
I got an odd phone call a few weeks back. In fact, it began with the woman who’d called introducing herself and then saying, “I have an odd request.”
April 26 was “Take Your . . .
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June 04, 2007 09:12 AM EDT --
Jacques Pepin, the master chef who helped popularize French cooking in the U.S., was apprenticed to a chef at age 14. Apprenticed. Cooking has always been a blue-collar job - at its best, a craft. It's . . .
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July 16, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
The food press is all over it, but no one else is paying much attention to the so-called farm bill coming up for renewal this September. True, the bill isn’t relevant to everyone. Those who don’t . . .
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July 30, 2007 10:12 AM EDT --
My two friends, "Mellani" and "Mike" raise grass-fed sheep on 50 acres of organic pasture set in a wooded farm in Missouri. They had a record-breaking 38 lambs born this year, which, . . .
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August 13, 2007 11:26 AM EDT --
I grew up drinking well water. The well was 220 feet deep and my father had the water tested every year. It wasn’t pristine, it had both mineral and bacteriological contaminants but both were within . . .
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September 03, 2007 09:44 AM EDT --
We'd sit around the pool and talk politics, cooking, books, our next meal, movies, great meals we'd had recently, the nature of the universe, and more cooking. During the course of the weekend . . .
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