Tag: kevin d 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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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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June 03, 2008 12:16 PM EDT --
W hen I started writing about food I immediately started reading what other people wrote about food - primarily as a way to learn how to write about food myself. One of the first books I picked up was . . .
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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 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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December 12, 2009 07:56 PM EST --
I don't recall when I first ate duck. I know it was a roasted duck, but I don't remember any of the details of its preparation. I was probably 13 or 14 and far too distracted with adolescence . . .
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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 29, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
I n a blog entry one of my favorite writers and the author of The Elements of Cooking , Michael Ruhlman, raised the issue of favorite kitchen gadgets. It's a great question, particularly for those . . .
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July 29, 2008 08:16 PM EDT --
E alier today I posted a link to a column I wrote titled "Necessary & Efficient" about kitchen gear. The comments got me to wondering what people's most favorite kitchen gadget . . .
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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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August 11, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
I came home the other day with a bottle of grappa. If you're unfamiliar with it, grappa is a sort of clear Italian brandy made from the grape skins and pulp left over after making wine. Until recently . . .
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September 08, 2008 11:26 AM EDT --
More people die in America of too much food than too little. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
M yriad factors contribute to the increasing obesity of Americans - too much sugar, too little . . .
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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 16, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
S ounds like a headline from the tabloids, eh? But in fact it's to some degree accurate - although it's not a deliberate act - to say your government makes you fat. It's another one . . .
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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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