The sky was always clear and perfectly blue, birds always sang in tune and mailmen always walked from one house to the next with a content, friendly smile on their face. Dogs buried cartoonishly large...
Read More →The clap of the cabinet doors opening and closing falls into sync with the cacophony of ruffling, falling, moving plastic bags, boxes shuffling to and fro and vegetables thumping into their bins. My elementary hopes...
Read More →Would you believe me if I told you that I am a native Texan and I’ve never had pecan pie in my life? Unfortunately it’s true! Or at least it was until last night, the...
Read More →While it may not have been invented in this country, there is little more in the culinary world that symbolizes America. When President Hu Jintao of China requested the state dinner celebrating his arrival this...
Read More →It’s that time of the year again and if you live down here in the south then you’ve been waiting through one heck of a hot summer for this day. I’m of course talking about...
Read More →Pies have been around for a long time. One of these pies became synonymous with America though. Like much of what has made America great, the apple pie came from far beyond our borders. We...
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