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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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