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November 16, 2008 - November 22, 2008 Archives

6:40 PM Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
So I've cruised newspapers' Thanksgiving Food sections online for a week now, seen hundreds of recipes, and blogged a lot of them. With all that new input, what am I cooking? Slight variations on the tried and true. And my......
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6:31 PM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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Out of words again... Taking inspiration more directly from Nature (and thumbing its nose at the myth of the manifest Coriolis effect) is the Ammonite Sink, named after the extinct marine animals that have left such bewitching fossils for us......
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10:14 AM Fri, Nov 21, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3, earlier this week. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Los Angeles Times / Kirk McKoy Creamy mushroom ragout over sweet potato cakes, above, from the L.A. Times, comes with......
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10:41 AM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Life Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Theodore Francis Green (D-RI) conferring in 1959. I've been browsing, fascinated, through decades of photos from Life Magazine that have just been archived and made searchable. Humphrey Bogart photographed in Newport, six......
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5:02 AM Thu, Nov 20, 2008 | Permalink |
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JIMI HENDRIX Hendrix For Everyone The Complete Four-Hour KPFA Radio Special BigO: KPFA Radio in California had in the past broadcast a four-hour radio special on Jimi Hendrix. With the passing of Mitch Mitchell (November 12, 2008), which marks the......
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4:14 PM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Part 1 and Part 2, earlier this week. And later, Part 4. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Francesco Tonelli for The New York Times Fingerling potatoes with dried figs and garlic at The New York Times.......
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10:51 AM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Wii Fit, as he does a yoga pose as he demonstrates the game in New York. The hot toy this year isn't a toy, it's an interactive exercise video for the......
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12:33 AM Wed, Nov 19, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
SixApart, maker of the now open-source Movable Type software behind this blog, is launching a Journalist Bailout Program, offering no-longer-employed journalists free TypePad Pro blogs, ad revenue, promotion and assistance. News organizations have bought out or laid off more than......
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10:27 AM Tue, Nov 18, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Part 1, earlier this week. And later, Part 3 and Part 4. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Scrambling ahead of the great wave of recipes tomorrow... here are side-dish recipes scraped from newspaper food sections that......
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10:52 AM Mon, Nov 17, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP Photo / Idaho Statesman, Darin Oswald Eager shoppers push through the front doors of the Boise Townsquare mall as it opened for business at 1 a.m. Friday, Nov. 23, 2007, in Boise, Idaho. Black Friday, the day after......
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1:05 PM Sun, Nov 16, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
This is part 1 of a series that grew to include Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Finally, what I plan to make for my family. Great waves of Thanksgiving recipes will publish this Wednesday in many newspapers, with......
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