I had reservations about taking a whole sockeye salmon, freshly caught and flown in from Alaska, to a cookout. But it was my wife’s birthday and our friend Bob, artist and frontier cook, insisted he had cooked all kinds of fish big and small over his campfire. So we loaded the salmon in a cooler […]
It’s official. This was the hottest summer on record in the District of Columbia. With meteorological summer having ended Aug. 31, our local weathermen tell us that we experienced a mean high temperature of 90.2 degrees and overall temperature of 81.3 degrees. The previous records were 89.3 and 80 degrees. So far, we’ve had 58 days […]
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Like every family, we’ve had our food battles with our 10-year-old daughter. With great dismay, we watched a pre-schooler who amazed us with the range of her palate (she couldn’t get enough Altoids or wasabe peas) morph into a bratty pre-teen who turned dinner into a slugfest with a littany of foods she refused to eat. […]
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