Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook
1987 was a year dedicated to Michael Jackson being “Bad”, Whitney Houston wanting to dance with somebody, “The Lost Boys” being found and staked, and most historically, Ronald Reagan’s visit to West Berlin, and his famous speech, imploring The USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the...
One of the best decisions we have made, about entertainment, is to get rid of DISH, and switch to using an Amazon Firestick. Besides Prime, there are a slew of streaming options that are free for watching like Tubi and Plex. Oh sure, you have to watch some ads, or pay for the privilege of ad-free...
Here we are, almost to the end of August and Labor Day begins the month of September. Farmers’ markets are laden with surpluses of homegrown vegetables, or baked goods, jams and jellies. One of our friends dropped off several bags of yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers which, of course, got me...
“Crash Goes the Hash”, 1944, featuring Moe, Larry and Curly – aka The Three Stooges.
Disguised as servants, the trio infiltrates a party at Mrs. Van Bustle’s residence held in honor of a visiting prince. The Stooges unintentionally disrupt the event by presenting hors d’œuvres that are deemed...
“Take me out
to the ball game,
Take me out
with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks,
I don’t care
if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win,
it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
Written in 1908 by...
A classic meal, not just in the United States, but in many other countries, is the hamburger. I am not referring to the minuscule hockey pucks sold at too many fast-food places.
I am not referring to the one-inch-thick rounds of seasoned meat, dripping with juices, layered between a bun and topped...
A number of times I have heard someone refer to my research techniques as being part ferret and part pitbull.
I believe I have always been like this, even as a child, being interested in a subject and wanting to know more and more about it.
Even now, my bookcases are filled with all kinds of books...
Here we are, the middle of July and the temperatures are on the rise. So, where is that sound that brings out our childhood delight?
“What sound?”, you ask. It is the jingle, the jingle played by the Good Humor or Mr. Softee truck. All the kids lining up, at the usual stop, money in hand, to buy...
Indulging the exotic, what exactly does this mean?
Oxford Dictionary defines exotic as, “Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.” Encyclopedia Britannica denotes it as, “very different, strange, or unusual”.
Well now, depending on where in the world Waldo is, every place and...
July 4, 1776, Independence Day, when the colonists of the New World (America) declared all ties cut from their mother country, Britain. While the residents of this newly established country might have thought, “Well that’s all done with, time for tea and biscuits”, King George had a whole other...
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