You may have liked it, but Truman Capote sure didn’t.
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I just recently read “Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine,” (great book, by the way) and I was surprised to read that rosewater was once as ubiquitous a flavor in American cooking as vanilla, which largely replaced it.
I just don’t know how the Extended Pickle Universe is going to deal with this Thanos situation. Oh, wait — wrong extended universe. Sorry.
I’ve had no desire to watch since the ham-fisted response-to-Hari-Kondabalu episode a few weeks back, and I really can’t explain why. I’ve been a faithful viewer, and apologist even, thinking that bad “Simpsons” was still better than a lot of other shows. And I had not been worked up over the Apu thing; if they’d…
If you drink too much, will it make you Goofy?
Nicolas Cage, meanwhile, is planning a new “National Treasure” feature with some wild ideas about who’s buried in Grant’s tomb....
Admit it — “Kevin Pang” is just an alias. You’re really Eric Cartman, aren’t you?
I just hope Warren Buffett can afford this extravagance.
(Yes, I realize this comment is after the fact.) When I did my annual story on this drive for the small-town paper where I work, our local food bank stressed that they have more corn and green beans than they need, and said that please, for the love of God, they do not need any more canned corn or green beans.
Summer before last, when I was a chaperone for a church youth group trip in western North Carolina, I discovered that Bush’s beans has some sort of museum/factory tour attraction at their headquarters in East Tennessee, not too far from the tourist attractions in Sevierville/Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg. I’m determined to…
Inspired by a combination of this, another recipe I saw online, and seeing some green beans in the supermarket, I have a sort of mutant version of this cooking on the “slow cooker” setting of my Instant Pot. (I do have a slow cooker, and use it occasionally, but I didn’t feel like getting it out tonight.) I have…
A program I frequently vounteer for one week during the summer provides home repair and youth programming for a remote, impoverished area of Tennessee. We usually have a cookout on Wednesday night of camp week, and at one point they were offering marinated, grilled portobello mushroom caps as an alternative meatless…
Some channel — probably one of the oldies-centric secondary digital channels that local broadcast TV stations now host — was running episodes of “Airwolf” about a year ago, and I had to laugh at the description on my cable receiver — “The better of two 1984 helicopter TV shows.” (The other one was “Blue Thunder,” a…
The Food Lab actually indicates that for most cooked items, such as baked goods, the imitation vanilla is just fine, and you can’t tell the difference in the finished product.
Russell Baker, in his wonderful book “The Good Times,” described being sent by the Baltimore Sun to cover Elizabeth’s coronation, which ended up making his reputation and getting him hired by the NYT. (He was the only American reporter whose account was quoted in the Times of London.) He describes wearing formal dress…
Well, Bailey was actually a successful part of the Opry throughout the 1930s. Then, in 1941, there was some sort of dispute with one of the music licensing organizations, and as a result Bailey was no longer able to perform any of his best-known hits on the show. With a white performer, I’m sure this would have been…
The reference to train songs immediately reminded me of one of my favorite stories:
The reference near the end to America’s big but bland chickens put me in mind of a lesson I learned in cultural differences. I’ve been on multiple short-term foreign mission trips, including five to Kenya. On one of my last trips to Kenya, I happened to read a really nice, well-done feature story in one of the Nairobi…