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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Fall Breads
My gardening friends will blanch to hear that I’ve purchased zucchini in order to make zucchini bread. They still have some hanging out in their vegetable drawer and even more in their freezers. Since I shouted, “Uncle!” to our neighborhood … Continue reading
Posted in Monday Meals, Uncategorized
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Life Lessons
I mentioned last week that chef Vivian Howard always wanted to be a writer. Cooking gave her a subject, and her two cookbooks, indeed, make for entertaining reading. Similarly, Dana K. White, a decluttering blogger and YouTuber, hoped someday to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Weekend Editions
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Fingers and Flowers
Last week we arrived at the word digital by tracing the history of movie projection. No longer is actual film run through a movie projector. Nowadays, pretty much all theaters use digital projection. How did we get from digits as … Continue reading
Viv’s Baked Beans
Last week I described Vivian Howard’s book This Will Make It Taste Good and her Community Organizer, a melange of bell peppers, garlic, onions, red wine vinegar, and tomatoes cooked to a fare-thee-well, meant to be used as a sauce … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Monday Meals
Tagged Community Organizer, This Will Make It Taste Good, Vivian Howard
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Everything Old Is New Again
In March of 1970, about two-hundred armed white people In Lamar, South Carolina, attacked a phalanx of school buses carrying black children. Fifty years later, one of those children described the violence this way: “Once the bus stopped, they took … Continue reading
Posted in Weekend Editions
Tagged Gaslit, John Mitchell, Lamar, Martha Mitchell, Spiro Agnew, Watergate
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Movies, Cinema, and Film
I had a good word etymology to write about today but neglected to write it down and forgot what it was. I asked my husband if there are any words whose history he wondered about. “Movies,” he said. He added … Continue reading
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The Well-Intentioned Cook
On Friday, I wrote about Vivian Howard’s new cookbook, This Will Make It Taste Good, and resolved to try at least one of the recipes over the weekend. The weekend spilled over into today. I spent much of my Monday … Continue reading
Posted in Monday Meals, Uncategorized
Tagged Community Organizer, This Will Make It Taste Good, Vivian Howard
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Making It Read Well
I frequently watched “A Chef’s Life,” a PBS reality show/documentary series about Southern chef Vivian Howard that aired from 2013 to 2018, even though a lot of her cooking didn’t appeal to me. A bland Midwestern vegetarian, I’m not into … Continue reading
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Tagged Deep Run Roots, This Will Make It Taste Good, Vivian Howard
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Valete! (Be Strong, Y’All!)
Dr. Anthony Fauci recently appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. To tout the new Covid booster, the two men strolled to a nearby Walgreens, where Dr. F. took one for the team. In his left arm, that is. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Wednesday Word
Tagged Algernon Swinburne, Charles Baudelaire, covid, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Stephen Colbert
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Feed a Cold?
It’s hard to write about food (Monday Meals!) when you’ve been sick and nothing is appealing. I’ve been suffering a nasty cold since Thursday evening. I feel a little better every day, but my appetite hasn’t yet returned. I have … Continue reading
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