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Doesn't anybody recall the Blue Laws in Texas? You gotta wait till 6 p.m. on Sunday, people were not so holy, the law told them...give me a break...the people who made money on Sundays were those that bought some cases and bottles Saturday night!

Go to the library, and source every possible little Texas book you can come across! One of my best recipes came from a Galveston book, circa 1939! Texas libraries are a treasure!!!

I am mortified. Are these the same people who have opened youall up to the cultivation of genetically engineered corn, which we've fought so strenuously against? This is paramount to desecration....when do we learn....we are one?As one voice, it should be reviled!

Naw, actually, if you recall watching his show, he could be quite short-tempered and touchy, and it was not retaped or edited. But no matter. I do not find him to be a great American cook, simply as an 80's, or 90's niche. And heaven help young folks who grew up with him as a standard.If they aspire to his heights, they aspire too low by far.

I found his personna very condescending. His food hit or miss. Hot Wok, cold oil..any Chinese chef with four words of English could say as prophetic a message.And there was one episode where he came THISSSSS CLLLLOSE to losing it that I just wrote him off.

bperlow, I heartily second Richard's recommendations!

Oooh, the breadcrumb dumplings are sounding pretty good.

I adore Lake Powell!!!

The music should not dominate the food.

There was always an olive in sweet bean tamals at Christmastime. I just remembered that.

Oh no, I mean Jamaican in Jamaica. I am sitting here with a one-cent Jamaican coin: one side is Eliz. II, the obverse is a PIG!!! Them Jamaicans have their priorities straight! Also, that was the ONLY place my mouth tingled from one meal to the next...

You are totally right about if it's too loud, you're too old. I lived through Jimi, the Who, and Led Zeppelin, along with 20-plus years of industrial machines, and so now is my 'quiet time'. If I go to a place and spend 80-120 bucks per person, I want to HEAR the food...GET IT??? Besides which, in 10 years you'll say, "Was I listening to this crap?" By the way though, my exception is mariachi music in little Mezxican towns.

hathor, I am immensely proud that you had a success with your chicken!! It's almost like birthing a baby over the phone!! Congrats, and many more chickens to you!!

Yep, what the hay! If he thinks 'Buffalo' have wings, more power! Also, I guess there's no google yonder, huh?

The place and the style of music are all-inclusive. But gut-busting garbage all-night,all the time, is obnoxious. Loud music that forces you to shout (God forbid) and not concentrate on the meal, is, I think, a way to force you out quickly. The d-jays need a terminal enema!

JAMAICAN. Yipes and Holy Moly!!!

My difficulty is so off-kilter to everyone else's that I feel a fool. My blood clots. 18 hospital times in 12 years. My diet, along with Coumadin, or Warfarin, determines what I can consume. I cannot take multi-vitamins, because the iron might kill me. I cannot take a calcium supplement. The only pain reliever I can take is a Benadryl. Don't laugh. It does stop a lot of complaints. Now. Here is the food part. Everything I love and is good for most folks could be deadly for me. If you want to build your blood UP, ask me. I can name you 50 things that will bring up INR and PT. I hate it. I cheat, but I know what'll happen some day. At this point---don't care---but I know it's not fair, but damn, nobody ever wrote me a guarantee on life.

Don't youall reckon that maybe black olives started with Blanca hostesses in the sixties with all-things-Mexican, because they crossed over from the salades nicoise that were also promoted? Or am I whistling in the wind?

Whatever, dump on us, we're the flavor of the year...but we've done our own bit about Brit Food. But usually someone who takes the time to search out popular snacks finds them pretty tasty. Besides, if they knew how good collard greens, grits, and good pork rinds were, there'd be a lot less for us. Live with what you know. I haven't had a Pizza Oz style, but I don't put youall up to ridicule for indulging.

There's another First Lady and President we've overlooked. For grace, poise, and excellent fare, I think Dolly Madison should be up there as the Jacqueline of her day. By all accounts she was quite emphatic in her standards. Beside serving the first ice cream.

Cusina, not to get too far off topic, but having raised three feminine sprouts, 2 years apart, do you feel as though there is a natural law that all the sprouts do not behave at the same time?

I wish I had any good tips for getting past an obstacle for food prep, but other than a bowl in your lap, and good paring knife, I'm a blank. Do you have problems with pans on your stove? I imagine cast iron is too heavy. It is getting that way for me. What about a processor? Or is that too much of a bear to clean?

I guess the wadding explaination is one I could definitely use for some of the explosive salsas I've had

Thomas Jefferson is an shining example to me. Reading his correspondences to Lewis and Clark is a real experience in the degrees of minuetae he was interested by new, better, and more useful.

Way, way back in the time of singers like the Eagles and Pure Prairie League, I thought that a Tequila Sunrise was aesthetically pleasing. If you were to make one with a layer of orange juice in a martini glass, a layer of grapefruit juice, then dribbled the grenadine into the side, it would be tasty and pretty, wouldn't it?