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member name: Kevin Weeks
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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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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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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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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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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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October 12, 2009 10:33 AM EDT --
S ix years ago today I posted my first piece on Seriously Good , a recipe for Sangria . It consisted of a short paragraph and a recipe. At the time I didn't even know food blogs existed. Most of . . .
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May 28, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
M ummo, my mother's mother and the only grandmother I ever knew, made the best fried chicken in the world. The last time I saw Mummo was 30 years ago in her basement apartment in my uncle's house . . .
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June 17, 2008 06:04 PM EDT --
I 'm almost as fed up (pun intended) with writing about food recalls as I am learning about them. Some good news on the food front would really be nice, but I'm afraid that with 238 people reportedly . . .
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June 18, 2008 01:05 PM EDT --
P ulled from the oven, the golden, pregnant crescents glisten with butter. The pastry is so flakey while hot it can barely maintain its shape. Savory steam escapes from vents filling the kitchen with . . .
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June 25, 2008 06:46 PM EDT --
S ummers are marked, in my mind, by a triptych of summer grilling sessions. The first panel is centered on Memorial Day, the official opening of barbequing season. This panel offers scenes of earlier . . .
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June 28, 2008 01:38 PM EDT --
M y family has few traditional recipes. There's Mummo's Bourbon Cake , a Christmas treat that's made Thanksgiving weekend and then aged (with regular shots of bourbon) until Christmas. And . . .
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July 10, 2008 01:27 PM EDT --
S ome folks have a prediliction to addiction and others don't. Those of us who are somewhat obsessive/compulsive have a particular problem with addiction, let this be a warning to you cooks . . .
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July 15, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
I came home from the farmers' market last Tuesday with a couple of pounds of tomatoes. To some folks, that makes me a brave or foolish man.
So far more than 1,000 people have officially been . . .
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July 17, 2008 01:12 PM EDT --
I n " Fire Builder " I wrote about the barbeques we had when I was a kid. It wasn't unusual for steak to be left over - when you reach into the freezer and pull out a few steaks wrapped . . .
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July 22, 2008 12:43 PM EDT --
I n 1968 I didn't get arrested for skinny-dipping. It was a near thing. It was August and some friends and I were at an anti-Vietnam war rally and when the heat got to be too much we decided to take . . .
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July 31, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
I n theory, a perfectly balanced meal includes some protein, but not too much; a vegetable or two; some fruit and a carbohydrate. Such a meal also should balance tastes - savory, a little sour or bitter . . .
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August 06, 2008 02:23 PM EDT --
B ack when I was a computer programmer and then editor I would have loved to have had a 9 - 5 job - or so I claimed. A 50-hour week wasn't unusual and even 60-hour weeks were fairly common. On the . . .
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September 10, 2008 12:58 PM EDT --
S implicity. When I was a younger cook I sought out the most complicated, convoluted, and difficult recipes to explore. A recipe with dozens of steps was a challenge eagerly sought. An opportunity to . . .
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September 19, 2008 11:44 AM EDT --
I 'm not a regular watcher of Tony Bourdain's No Reservations . I think Bourdain's a better writer than TV host, and his show is agonizingly predictable: he eats some weird stuff, talks about . . .
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September 23, 2008 06:24 PM EDT --
I just renewed my subscription to Cook's Illustrated, my favorite cooking magazine. For years and years before the World Wide Web and before cookbooks had become one of the largest categories . . .
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