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At a recent dinner dessert was accompanied by large coin silver spoons. A discussion broke out about the size of the spoons and several people insisted that these were not dessert spoons, but serving spoons. The host said, “No, they’re dessert spoons”, and produced some even bigger spoons, stating that, “these are serving spoons.”



There was no argument about the really big spoons being serving pieces, but the large spoons were still being discussed so smaller spoons of the same style an...

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    Grillmybunz, a member of Foodsville from the very beginning, has made some significant contributions to my culinary well being. Early on, he suggested that we could be drinking much better coffee if we roasted it ourselves and he wrote a piece about the Big Green Egg. I resisted both ideas briefly; the BGEgg longer than the coffee, but eventually went back to roasting coffee and recently, for Father’s Day, gifted myself the Egg.



    The Egg isn’t a new thing at all ...

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     It recently became necessary for my beloved to take a vacation. She wanted to go somewhere interesting and not stressful and preferably with a beach. “Great”, I said. “How about Edisto Island?” She countered with Argentina and we settled on Mexico as the flight to Argentina is eleven hours and the one to the Yucatan is only four.



    Mexican food is loved by many and I sometimes count myself in that number, however …. there isn’t any on the Yucatan pe...

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I'm a huge supporter of making sustainable seafood choices. Sometimes, people think it means sacrificing taste or denying one's self a favorite fish. Not so!



My first attempt at making lox at home is the perfect example. Some of you are saying, "Wait, I thought salmon was off the list?!" Not Wild Alaskan King Salmon! In fact, no wild Alaskan salmon has ever been endangered. The state incorporated responsible fishing practices into its constitution. That's how seriously they take protecting t...

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Goal: To use only the juice of the onion to get raw onion flavor without any visible onion pieces.



I have a friend who hates eating different textures in a dish. For example, she has no problems eating peas, corn, and rice separately, but she refuses to eat them when they are combined together. So here's a tip for those who want to cut down the amount of visible ingredients in a dish, or those who don't like the texture of onions, or those who don't always feel up to the task of cu...

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Gordon Biersch is a microbrewery here in Silicon Valley.  It actually got its start (or at least its initial funding) from some of the early engineers at Silicon Graphics Inc. in Mountain View.  They opened their first microbrewery and restaurant in Palo Alto.

Their best beer, in my humble opinion, is Marzen (well I can't figure out how to put the two little dots on top of the a in Marzen, pronounced mare-tsen).

As it shows on the label, it is a smooth auburn lager.  Very tasty.  I...


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I just spent seven days among the wild grape vines dancing with a chain saw and fertilizing ancient fields with liberal amounts of money and so - coincidentaly - can report on the state of the Edisto Island tomato crop. The state of the crop is there ain’t one this year. The farmers might plant some soy beans because they can do most of the work with machinery. Vegetables take hand labor and there isn’t any certainty this year that there will be any. Much of the large scale tomato pl...

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    A few days ago I went out to the front yard to get some overwintered rosemary for the lamb chops and saw that the herbs were beginning to green up. The sage has gone from dusty grey to bright green and thickened considerably. The mint has surreptitiously expanded out of its bed over the winter and will have to be fought back into place. It's half way across the yard.  The rosemary hasn't really started to do a lot relating to spring. This could be because we kept having war...


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Having been invited recently to a party celebrating the end of Prohibition, I was reminded once again (by comments in the invitation) of how little anyone actually knows about Prohibition and why it happened. And as a historian, I feel moved to elucidate folks on the reality of why we had Prohibition.



Prohibition was, in fact, a feminist issue. If you notice, Prohibition was passed one year after women got the vote. That’s because there were no women’s shelters, and women didn’t...

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    My niece, Kirsten, spent a lot of time with my mother and learned to make Tomato Catsup from her. She and her sister, Elizabeth, are now carrying this recipe forward to glory and it is a big seller at the annual Trinity Christmas Bazaar in Columbia. I never did it because my mother always made it in August when the last tomatoes were still on the vines and the temperature was in the high and soggy nineties. She usually undertook this task with my aunt Ellie in the kitchen on E...

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