Hurricane Food As I sit and write this column, I am watching the television coverage of Hurricane Gustav as it makes landfall a few hundred miles west of my breakfast room. My family hunkered down several days in advance this time, which beats the last minute scramble we endured before Hurricane Katrina. This morning I [...]

Subway 911 A man in Jacksonville, Fla. was arrested last week for making fraudulent 911 calls.He wasn’t calling the police station to ask if their “refrigerator is running?” and he wasn’t asking the dispatcher if she had “Prince Albert in a can?” The Associated Press reported that Reginald Peterson was hauled off to the pokey [...]

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Eating Ones Way Through the 100-Meter Freestyle My wife is nuts about the Summer Olympics. Every television in our home is tuned to the games in China and she calls me hourly with details of how well the United States is doing against the Lithuanian handball team. I’m more of a Winter Olympics-type guy. I’ll [...]

Peaches One of the unexpected benefits of writing a weekly food column which is centered mostly around food is that people always give me food. I love my job. At a book signing earlier this year a man walked up with a flat of blackberries and blueberries. “Here, check these out,” he said. An entire [...]

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Sweet Corn “… Pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn…”—Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) My friend Ronnie telephoned the other day. He wanted me to check out his garden. It was nice. There were several varieties of melon, [...]

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North vs South Weddings While reading the July 27th edition of the New York Times I came across this wedding announcement: “Coleen Mary Jennings and Bethany Ann Mills affirmed their partnership on Wednesday night at Full Moon, a resort in Big Indian, N.Y. Tim Hughes, a friend from San Francisco, and Randy Schwartz, a friend [...]

We’re Number One! (Again) In junior high school pep rallies were mandatory. I never minded them because they were a legitimate excuse to get out of class and hang out in the gymnasium. I never became too lathered up during these proceedings; call it lack of school spirit, absence of general enthusiasm about which grade [...]