food

Writing Assignment: Home Cooking

01.20.2012 Food and Cooking

Food. Wonderful meals. Awful meals. Memorable meals stick with us, long after digestion or indigestion have passed. Food has a particular hold on memory. And food from your childhood has a particularly strong hold. Try this the next time you’re in a group of strangers: ask about the food they grew up with. You’re likely [...]

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Preparing The Feast

11.23.2011 Family

Today, the day before Thanksgiving, we start (or in some cases, continue) the preparation for our Thanksgiving feast. The girls will be coming home from college and we’ll cook, clean, and eat together. It’s in this preparation, the care and love that goes into everything that leads up to the feast, where the real joy [...]

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Writing Assignment: Love It Or Hate It

09.16.2011 Writing Assignments

Expressing a strong opinion well is one of the most difficult things a writer can do. Initial reactions can be powerful, visceral, and difficult to translate into cool, evidence-based logical discourse. That’s not to say that opinions and reactions have to be logical or cool. But to put your reaction and thoughts in writing, to [...]

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Five Predictions About Your Future - #4: You Will Own A Farm

06.23.2011 Environment

I make no commentary on whether these predictions are for good or ill. When I look into the future this is what I see. In the future, perhaps not so long from now, the food you eat will come from somewhere you could visit by traveling less than an hour, perhaps very close to where [...]

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Why I Publish Recipes

05.12.2011 blogging

It may seem odd to some that I occasionally publish recipes here on First Today, Then Tomorrow. Some have criticized me as being “all over the content map” and that I should stick to a single topic. But I’ve discovered a number of things while writing here and for my customers. It boils down to this: [...]

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