Month: April 2006

The Oyster Is His World – New York Times

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R.W. Apple writes about John Rowley in The Oyster Is His World, and reading it, for a moment, I wished it was mine too. John Rowley has made a career and a calling of advocating for and raving about oysters, and to me, that’s one of those “Dang, that’s a great job!” jobs. Ah well. ... Read more

Affordable Europe – New York Times

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I really look forward to a trip to Affordable Europe. I hope these links will still work when we’re doing our planning. I hope the price of jet fuel doesn’t keep going up. I hope Delta will still honor frequent flier miles for trips to Europe. I just keep hoping.

Some people garden…

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... and others have gardening thrust upon them. Ellen had grown some herbs for a few years outside the back deck, and last year wanted to plant sunflowers across the back of the yard. And I thought I’d grow a few tomato plants, as neighbors on either side have large gardens and often share their … Read more

Argentina On Two Steaks A Day

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As promised yesterday, Argentina On Two Steaks A Day, from painter and programmer Maciej Ceglowski’s Idle Words blog (“brevity is for the weak”), via Making Light, one of the net’s uberblogs. I’ll use the same pull-quote they did, which opens the piece: *The classic beginner’s mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of … Read more

Lawn Care

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Lawn rhymes with yawn. I love the look of a nice expanse of trimmed green, but I also love even more the look of a field full of wildflowers or tall grass, and I love most having anything else to do with my time than care for my little mini-pasture. Yet there are the not … Read more

Cooking (Large Cuts of) Meat – NYT

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I love this kind of article. Matt and Ted Lee explain how and why to roast entire bone-in legs of lamb, untrimmed beef brisket, whole fresh hams. I love well roasted meat. My family has historically roasted whole bone-in legs of lamb, with lots of garlic. This Sunday we’re having a southern-style ham, already smoked, ... Read more