The restaurant scene in my neck of the woods can’t even be described as bad; it’s more like a wasteland, reminiscent of The Road Warrior. We aren’t served dog food from a can when we go out to eat, but most local restaurants’ output is just semantically different
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My life has recently been hectic in a way that kept me out of the kitchen; in part because there were occasionally no other diners besides me (and I have awful manners and wouldn’t want to eat with myself. Pace, Lucullus), and in part because I haven’t
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There isn’t much to say about this topic that hasn’t been said thousands of times by amateur and professional smokers across the country. But that never stopped me; I am nothing if not a pontificator.
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Everyone knows what’s on the list of summer drinks. Beer, G&Ts, rum punch, the classic margarita, even an ice-cold martini on a hot night is appropriately included on that list. But what to do when the days grow short and there is a nip in the air,
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Tommy, of tommy:eats, and I were commiserating about the particularly hard and speedy acorns of this fall season. For some reason, perhaps there is a cabal of squirrels throwing them, the acorns seem to be hitting our homes and cars with unreasonable violence.
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Tommy, of the justifiably well-known local food blog, tommy:eats, has become unhinged and is currently raving about a new local restaurant that, if it fixes its many flaws, very well may be the local equivalent of Blue Smoke or the late, much-lamented
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Click here for more information. Yes, tommy:eats is always on top of this stuff, and it’s a good cause, so go give a little.
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Arrogant? Me? Well, on the topic of cooking shellfish — in particular shrimp and lobster – why yes, I am. But not without good reason. I think I do a rather good job of it, mostly as a result of screwing it up often enough that I have a large sample
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Norman Borlaug, the man who saved more human lives than anyone else in history, has died at age 95. Borlaug was the Father of the Green Revolution, the dramatic improvement in agricultural productivity that swept the globe in the 1960s. For spearheading this achievement, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
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