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Every Christmas Eve, before the kids go to bed, we listen to Mannheim Steamroller’s “Silent Night” as the last thing in the day. Usually I’ll say a little something about remember family far away, or about soldiers deployed during this time. It’s usually short. However this year, with the Newtown shooting, and getting some inspiration […]
A lot of cookbooks these days feature celebrities that also are chefs. This is not one of those kind of books. Host of “In The Kitchen With David†on QVC, David Venable is not a chef. He is a guy who likes to eat and knows a thing or two about cooking. The result is […]
The land is truly in the middle of nowhere in deep East Texas. Isolated, with nothing of any significance at all besides an ageing barn on it, nothing has disturbed the land and it secrets for decades. That is until now because a road is coming through to serve the increasingly population in Texas. The […]
“People love barbeque. The combination of fire, smoke, salt, and meat is probably the first recipe that humans ever discovered. Even vegetarians are programmed to love meat prepared this way: they choose not to eat it, which just leaves more for the rest of us.†(Forward, page IX) It quickly becomes clear Charred & Scruffed: […]
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