I’m not a deep-fry cooking kind of person. I prefer things raw, baked, or sauteed. The idea of immersing my perfectly good food into a vat of boiling oil doesn’t get me all that excited. Then I got a couple pounds of green tomatoes in my CSA share. Oy, the only thing I could think […]
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In the mid-80’s I became aware of La Tour de France. Greg LeMond was the first American to win La Tour so it seemed that it was the first time the news gave any attention to the race. It didn’t seem to matter that La Tour had been happening since 1903, if America wasn’t a
This Tom Robbins novel is a fun ride. Switters, the protagonist is a CIA agent who through several sub stories ends up in the Amazon where a shaman curses him never to rest his feet on the ground again, lest he dies. We’re introduced to many characters: Maestra, grandmother who owns a Matisse painting of
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This current Pixar film is lush with a modern story set in a medieval world. I loved the story. Before its release, critics were commenting that this would be the first female protagonist featured in a Pixar film, and would it fare well because of that? It grossed $66,323,594 in the US on opening weekend,
I love summer fruit. As a child, my Aunt Alice had fruit trees: plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines. I learned what real fruit tasted like. I was surprised then when she sold the farm and we had to eat these fruits from a grocery store. They bore little resemblance to the sweet treats I was accustomed
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