Are you game enough to watch sausage being made — then eat it?
November 4, 2009
"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night."
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Love of oysters, food shows lead to winning recipe entry
October 28, 2009
Like a lot of people raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Jackie Hardin is a fancier of oysters.
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Making pesto before the frost is on the basil
October 21, 2009
As soon as the first snowflake falls in Garrett County, basil plants in Baltimore fold for the season. That is an exaggeration, but only a slight one.
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Roasting brings the flavor out of a lean pork tenderloin
October 14, 2009
It isn't easy to love or cook pork tenderloin. But recently I did both.
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Beer Week should score with Boog Powell in the lineup
October 7, 2009
Baltimore is getting its first beer week, and I say it's about time. This city has had beer bubbling in its veins for years. Tomorrow evening, Boog Powell, the former Oriole slugger who has become this town's friendly father figure, will crack open a cask in a ceremony aboard the USS Constellation, and 10 days of sudsy activities, everything from the massive Oktoberfest party at the Timonium Fairgrounds to neighborhood pub crawls, will follow.
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Gone fishing for reasons that Towson came to be such a sushi stronghold
September 30, 2009
When I think of Towson, I rarely think "sushi." I might think of what swims in the closest body of water, the Loch Raven reservoir. Crawdad sushi? Catfish sushi? No, thank you.
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It might be dark, but time is still right to light the grill
September 23, 2009
On a recent orange evening as the sun sank and red leaves dropped from the dogwood, I stood in the backyard, grilling bratwurst, racing daylight.
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'Julia' sets him to toiling in the kitchen
September 16, 2009
I came out of the movie "Julie & Julia" anxious to cook. This surprised me. I do not think of myself as someone who gets swept away by a movie. A good book, yes. A great play on the football field, you betcha! But I get steely when it comes to letting films motivate me.
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Group seeks out season's tastiest tomato varieties
September 9, 2009
It looked like a picnic. But it was actually a tomato tasting, a thorough one.
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One's prize for bringing delicate fig to fruition? All its tasty recipes
August 26, 2009
Few endeavors in life are as rewarding and frustrating as having a fig tree in your yard.
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Ravens center Matt Birk wraps his hands around Morton's 'two-fisted burger'
August 12, 2009
Matt Birk is the new center for the Baltimore Ravens. He is a big man - 6 foot-4 and 309 pounds - working in a beefy world, so it is not surprising that a large, ground sirloin burger sandwiched between two slices of thick bacon is one of his favorite foods.
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Nigerian food has lots to like — just not the goat
August 5, 2009
The other day I attempted to eat like a Nigerian.
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Orioles step up to (fill) the plates
July 29, 2009
Brian Roberts finds working in the kitchen relaxing.
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Orioles to step up to fill the plates at Cook-Off
July 27, 2009
Brian Roberts finds working in the kitchen relaxing.
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Thankful for those leftovers
November 21, 2007
Tomorrow, as I dig into the roast turkey, the corn-bread stuffing, the hominy casserole, the mashed potatoes and gravy, I also will be thinking about how good these dishes will taste at the many eating opportunities stretched over the weekend.
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Beyond wine for holiday dinner
November 14, 2007
Once you have answered the sticky Thanksgiving questions - what type of turkey stuffing and what set of relatives you are going to spend the day with - the next issue to solve is, what are you going to be sipping?
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Crunch time: Crisp critters prove hard to swallow
May 19, 2004
THE KEY TO enjoying cooked cicadas -- if that is possible -- is to eat them with your eyes closed.
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These events leave a cloud over our city
July 21, 2001
IHAVE NOT had much luck thinking up a new slogan for Baltimore. But after the events of this week, I do have a new candidate for the city's mascot. That would be Joe Bfstplk the Li'l Abner comic strip character who walked around with a rain cloud over his head. Joe Bfstplk was a human jinx, wherever he went, calamity followed.
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Toning down thoughts on phone repair
February 17, 2001
TRYING TO FIX a telephone these days is frustrating.
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'A piece of the action' makes things a bit nutty
February 7, 2001
THE SIEGE OF the pine nuts began a few weeks ago, shortly after we got a late-night phone call from James "Buzzy" Cusack, a friend and neighbor. Buzzy said something like " Psssst, wanna buy some pine nuts?"
