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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain
At a recent catering event, one of my servers came back in the staging area and told me, "There's a lady out there who was asking for you. She said she taught you everything you know about cooking." My immediate response was, "Does she have red hair?" "Yes," was the answer. I knew she was talking about Betty Waskiewicz.
When it rains, it pours, or so the old adage goes for having a "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad" day. Then sometimes it dumps buckets, flooding our respective streets, shorting out the power we so desperately exist upon, blocking our every escape.
I'm a big fan of Taco Tuesdays. A few of our local restaurants offer taco specials every week with all kinds of delightful fillings. My husband, Vince, tends to go the more traditional route with ground beef, shredded lettuce and cheese. I love fish tacos topped with fresh pico de gallo and guacamole. This week, I decided to take it up a notch with cubes of slow-cooked pork tenderloin seasoned with cumin, oregano and a pinch of ground cinnamon. Pork Carnitas are delicious and easy to prepare. Who doesn't love a good crock pot recipe? Corn and Black Bean Salad, Cilantro-Lime Rice and Fiesta Pudding and maybe a glass of sangria will make your Tex-Mex meal complete. Ole!
A couple of years ago in these pages, I wrote of ghosts - both spectral and historical - we have come across in our old farmstead in what was once the Carolina backcountry in the upper coastal plain near Augusta and Orangeburg. The old homeplace has been sitting there for some two hundred years; it is hardly surprising that a couple of centuries of hard-working folks should leave behind evidence of themselves and their lives, and we are often pleased to discover some artifact of the farm's past buried in the soil or even to be visited by the occasional inexplicable apparition.
"Destroyers love to pick up airplane pilots out of the ocean"... They put Jimmy [Van Fleet] to bed, got the water o
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