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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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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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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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March 12, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
Alas, the state of California, which should know better than to emulate New York City, is considering several state-wide laws to prohibit trans-fats. Not all trans-fats, Dolly Madison cakes are still . . .
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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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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 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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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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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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September 06, 2007 10:48 PM EDT --
"Mitt Romeny or Rudy Giuiliani would surrender vital organs tp be compared with the patron saint of the Republican Party [Ronald Reagan]"
This is a quote from an article about Fred Thompson . . .
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October 15, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
If you follow my Spot-On column then you know how passionate I am on the subject of cooking for yourself, family, loved ones, and friends. You may have gathered that I consider cooking fundamental to not . . .
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October 29, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
I recoiled in horror and blurted out, "Oh God, no!"
I was teaching a cooking class and someone had just asked me about using cooking wine from the grocery store. It's a reasonable . . .
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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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December 10, 2007 11:02 AM EST --
T his past Thanksgiving I got two calls about vegetarian dishes. One was from a woman whose vegan nephew was coming to dinner and she wanted to know how to make a green bean casserole (the equivalent . . .
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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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January 21, 2008 10:23 AM EST --
L et's apply a little logic to the issue of cloning animals. First, cloning is not genetic engineering; it is not about transferring genes from an eggplant to a cow. It's about taking the . . .
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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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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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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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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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