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On Tiger Woods, and leftover roast beef
Among sports writers, writing about Tiger Woods' lifestyle lately has sometimes seemed awkward. Those who insisted "his personal life is personal, I'm just writing about golf and business" often showed a whiff of "me, too so what can I say"...
December 26, 2009 9:08 am
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Here's a homey blazing fireplace -- hang stockings, roast chestnuts, stare here
Merry Christmas, and joy to you....
December 24, 2009 11:12 pm
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Last-minute Christmas recipes from newspaper food sections
N.Y. Daily News photo /Beatrice Peltre Gingerbread Buche de Noel: "The quintessential Christmas dessert is a showstopper that's worth the extra effort it takes to make a cake from scratch, plus buttercream, plus meringue mushrooms. The Wednesday Food sections...
December 23, 2009 11:19 am
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Simple, clear, a Christmas song
O Come, O Come Emmanuel by Lone Spring Arts. Ignore the fog. The men's and women's voices blend powerfully in this stark performance. Wikipedia: "It is believed that the traditional music stems from a 15th Century French processional for...
December 23, 2009 2:18 am
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Not Italian? Nostalgia for any Christmas Eve tradition can be transforming
Sunday, during a break in the Pats lurching over Buffalo, Christmas Eve dinner came up. We're not Italian. I didn't even know about the Feast of the Seven Fishes till I was middle-aged. The closest we ever came to a...
December 22, 2009 10:56 am
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Decorate a few simple Christmas trees online
☃ Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree This is mindless fun. Unicode is a character set that assigns a unique number to each character in each of the major languages of the world including musical notation and common images; it shares some...
December 21, 2009 11:33 am
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Snowbound? Bake cookies from 67 years of Gourmet's favorite recipes
Gourmet's Favorite Cookie Recipes: 1941-2008. Retested but unchanged. The Brown Butter cookies above, from 1961, call for 2/3 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar. That's made from a vanilla bean that sits in sugar for a while. Don't...
December 20, 2009 7:20 am
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