Veal

Nearly every time someone brings up cooking with veal in a public setting, you will get all kinds of grief. In fact, you will rarely see it featured on a menu in a restaurant. And it is darned near impossible to find in a...

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Rice

I am 70 years old. When I was growing up on the west coast of the United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s there was only one kind of rice and it was called, strangely enough, RICE. If you were served rice, if you...

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The Glass Was Full

i promise not to make this a maudlin site, but I want to explain what it was like to have found my soulmate. Every day the glass started out full. It was always full. No matter what else was going on in the world or in life...

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Getting Along

There are movements to get liberals and conservatives to communicate civilly again. Funny thing; throughout my life, even though I argued wholeheartedly with conservatives in the past, I respected them and there was always...

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110%

I am sick and tired or these people saying they are giving 110%. Hell, I even heard a person who said, and I will quote, “I was in the military and I am used to giving 125%”. I have only one thing to say to him. ...

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