An Orange (or Tangerine) for Christmas

Yesterday I talked with a fried who commented that Christmas was a time for memories.  So here are a couple of mine. As children, our Christmas stockings always had a…

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First Encounters: French Food II

Silence, deathly silence.  Then the conversation went back to where it had been five minutes before.  What had I said that provoked such a hostile reaction? It was the late…

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The Answer: The Official Foodie Handbook

The gourmet was typically a rich male amateur to whom food was a passion. Foodies are typically an aspiring professional couple to whom food is a fashion. A fashion? The…

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