Tag: kd weeks
member name: Kevin Weeks
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December 23, 2009 11:53 AM EST --
M y parents recently sent out an email asking ten specific questions about what my siblings and I remembered about our childhood Christmases. "How tall was our tallest tree?" "Who was first to . . .
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December 22, 2009 02:49 PM EST --
I pulled the pot of stock from the fridge and it shimmied. It didn't wobble. It didn't shudder. It didn't ripple. It didn't sashay. Nor did it undulate, shake like a bowl full of jelly, or shiver. . . .
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September 16, 2008 06:08 PM EDT --
There was a time, a long period of time, when I admired John McCain. I didn't agree with him most of the time, but I thought his bus was well-named, I thought he had principles and stood by them, . . .
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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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February 03, 2007 08:28 PM EST --
I'd never been in a sex shop before. It was… interesting. The fur-covered handcuffs were interesting. The leather collars were interesting. The costumes were interesting, And the, well… . . .
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February 06, 2007 11:14 AM EST --
English food has a terrible reputation, and perhaps at one time it was deserved. But even then the food had its glories. Or, if "glories" is too strong a word, then it certainly had its genuine . . .
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February 16, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
A s a Southern cook, I have an obligation to attempt to keep track of cookbooks purportedly offering Southern food. This means that The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook by Matt and Ted Lee was on my list . . .
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October 03, 2008 06:53 PM EDT --
Palin was so folksy all I could think of was a corncob in an outhouse.
Which means, she was about as genuine as the Dukes of Hazard.
And if she'd winked at me one more time I would have crawled . . .
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October 13, 2009 12:01 PM EDT --
I read recently that the most popular sandwich in the US (discounting hamburgers, I assume) is ham. Although I presume most people eat of some sort of processed ham on some sort of commercial . . .
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December 12, 2009 08:35 PM EST --
I 'm positive these egg cups are an old idea, but, in fact, I've never seen a recipe for them. I started making them during a brief period of breakfast eating - I could make half a dozen at a time . . .
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January 16, 2007 05:56 PM EST --
Y esterday I found a new product in the deli section of the supermarket. It was in a vacuum pack and hanging with the packages of sliced salami, ham, cheese, and other sandwich fixings -- Shaved Country . . .
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February 12, 2007 09:07 PM EST --
Today Spot-on.com, a Web syndication service published my weekly first column. And I'm pumped.
Spot-on brings together a collection of columnists who offer:
"a range of well-written and smartly . . .
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February 07, 2008 05:03 PM EST --
Can you tell your life story in six words? Here's mine:
Get a life! Yeah? What kind?
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March 01, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
S ardines and crackers, some cheese, and a shared bottle of beer - LaBatt's Blue, as I recall. I've had fancier and more interesting picnics, but in this case I was smitten with my traveling companion. . . .
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March 12, 2008 03:07 PM EDT --
A few years ago I purchased American Classics by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. The book is a good modern reference to such traditional favorites as Chicken Pot Pie, Parker . . .
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March 26, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
O nce upon a time I was the lead singer in an Indonesian rock band in Cairo, Egypt. Bear with me, it's a bit complicated.
At the time my parents were teaching at the American University in Cairo . . .
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April 21, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
B est I can figure is that I have a food face. I was in the market the other day, looking for a good bunch of asparagus when the woman next to me asked, "How do you cook asparagus?" She went . . .
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May 09, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --
T here are foods that make you wonder how they came to be eaten. For instance, raw olives are phenomenally bitter. They have to be cured in salt for several weeks before they're edible. Who figured . . .
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June 12, 2008 12:40 PM EDT --
S upposedly Beef Stroganoff was created by a chef in Saint Petersburg for a culinary competition held in the 1890s. Although the dish was almost certainly named for Count Paul Stroganoff, a Russian noble . . .
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September 17, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
As much as we all like blaming the current administration when economic times are bad or lauding the current administration when they're good. Most of us know that the American economy is a multiple-trillion-dollar . . .
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