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Irish-style Soda Bread
Traditional Irish soda bread consists just of flour, buttermilk, salt and baking soda. Americans added sugar, raisins and sometimes caraway seed. Soda bread gets stale in a day and crumbles when you try to slice it. The New York Times in March 2007 discussed this here , with an improved recipe here, which makes a […]
The 2009 deadline of a long-running column-writing contest, now open to bloggers, is less than a week away. Entries for the seven categories of the annual contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists need to have a postmark — or time-stamp — of Sunday, March 15. Five of the categories are traditional: humor and […]
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Depressing News
Copyright 2009 Ben S. Pollock The news business is collapsing. Lots of other industries are imploding — banking, autos — but who can do without loans and cars, while who needs news in this time of peace (yes, it is)? I. News Always Has Been Free, Almost The explanation given is that the Internet is […]
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Two for the Show
What a thoughtful movie. It’s about this middle-aged man who’s in a real interesting career, been at it his whole adult life. But the guy is on its far side, losing it. What he’s doing — or selling, depending on the degree of jaundice in your opinion of work — well, maybe it’s best as […]
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Nature in slow motion
The knit sheets we grabbed in the dark annoyed, our flannels would slide in woven linens. Cascading limbs threatened the bed upstairs so with four blankets below, three above, we lay with cats by the washer/dryer. Not merely sleepless, for 10 hours we stared under the hurricane in slow motion: Crack crack crackle groan — […]