Potatoes are the chicken of vegetables. You can fry, bake, boil, steam, grill, broil or eat them raw [ unlike chicken ]. You can slice, dice, chop, shred, waffle cut, mash or puree them. Put two or three good-sized potatoes in a sturdy bag and they make an effective weapon. A one pound potato in a well […]
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Goulash in C-major – or – Shovel That Coal
Apr 23
Some people eat the way a season ticket holder at the Opera listens to music. They will wade thru tons of horns, violins, and pounding kettle drums to hear the brief faint trill of a flute or piccolo hidden in the forest of weightier notes; like the rare glimpse of a bluejay flitting among the […]
A Parable
Mar 7
Once upon a time there was a little boy named Frank who lived on a farm with his mother, father, brothers and sisters. Frank was five years old. One morning after breakfast; when the men had gone to work the fields, and his older brothers and sisters were off to school; Frank found himself with […]
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