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I have 2 junk foods that I eat –– both involve potatoes –– French fries and chips. I was driving past a McDonalds and I remembered ...

   Henri Charpentier at Café de Paris in Chicago, early 1940’s When I wrote about Downton Abbey and its Crêpes Suzettes a few mont...

In a film class many years ago, a professor told us that Godzilla was no mere monster movie. He said that the story (told ingeniously an...

$400,000 18 th Century Chinese Export Goose Tureen  In music, a variation is “a formal technique where material is repeated i...

Sour Meatbballs One of the things I absolutely love about blogging is all the remarkable people that I have met.  Mostly virtually but some...