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From Page to Plate: Buns and Jane Austen’s Time in Bath

Part 1 “Sir Walter had taken a very good house in Camden Place, a lofty, dignified situation, such as becomes…

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The Cross & Cleaver. From Page to Plate

Great Gatsby (pt.2) – All That Jazz. As I wrote last time, “The Great Gatsby” covers many topics and offers…

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The Cross & Cleaver. From Page to Plate

Great Gatsby (pt.1) – Champagne, Caviar and Devilled Eggs.“The Great Gatsby” by Scott F. Fitzgerald is 100 years old this…

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The Cross & Cleaver. From Page to Plate

We are an impressionable species. Just look at the cinema goers coming out of a James Bond movie. Women strut…

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The Cross & Cleaver. Where Heaven Meets Earth: How Was Everything… or… See You Next Week?

How was everything … or … see you next week?I profoundly dislike those two questions customarily asked in restaurants and…

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The Cross & Cleaver. Where Heaven Meets Earth: The Blessing and Dismissal … or … What’s for Dessert and Come Again, Please!

The first five minutes in a restaurant or church, the greeting of a server or the words of the opening…

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The Cross & Cleaver. Where Heaven Meets Earth: It Costs How Much?!…or …Pass the Offering Plate.

We often think through the prism of money. Whoever said that money cannot buy happiness clearly has never ordered (and…

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The Cross & Cleaver. Where Heaven Meets Earth: The Bathroom Break

The bathroom break or mindlessly perusing the service bulletin. Have you ever suffered from writer’s block or a mental block?…

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The Cross & Cleaver. Where Heaven Meets Earth

The main course and the sermon.There are two one-liners aptly describing the importance of the main dish in the course…

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The Cross & Cleaver. Where Heaven Meets Earth

Viva la musica … or … “shut that blinking bouzouki off!” William Shakespeare (a.k.a. “The Bard”), put it quite succinctly…

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