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Caribbean Star Wars Day & That Yoda Guy
It’s Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you. And back in February of 2013, we had a weird and wonderful Star Wars morning on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin (or Sint Maarten). While the idea of big ship cruising these days seems about as fantastic as starships and galaxies far, far away,
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Backyard Ribs: Part Two, The Cook Up
This past Saturday morning I woke up at 6am and (after letting the dog out and setting the coffee to brew) I went to work making dinner. That is to say, I peeled open a family pack of pork ribs and mixed up a dry rub. I wrote about it in part one of this
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Race, Off
Sunday runday, and it was about just a month ago I was lamenting the upcoming lack of race season. My running partners were all busily signing up for virtual races that seemed to me as little more than paying for a t-shirt and a medal. Meanwhile we would all tell ourselves that the difference between
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Backyard Ribs: Part One, The Rub
It’s the first Saturday in May and I woke up to a clear blue sky and a weather forecast that was begging for a day outdoors. It’s always a gamble, of course, to plan twelve hours ahead of your cooking time for a backyard grill, particularly something as elaborate as a fire smoking some pork
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Our Well-Loved Cookbooks: Five Roses
There was a point in time about fifteen years ago when I would have told you that the best way to make pancakes was to follow the directions on the box. And see, everyone who dabbles in more advanced cooking techniques than as-per-manufacturers-instructions likely has a story of that one recipe that upon discovering it