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Archive for April, 2008

Thursday, April 24, is Dining Out for Life day in Asheville (and many other cities).  This is a great day to go out to eat for all three meals, because 20% of your food and drink bill will be donated to the Western North Carolina AIDS Project to help people living with HIV/AIDS achieve a [...]

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L’Chaim!

I love a food ritual. 
Thanksgiving, Passover, those are my days. 
Passover is the only night I ever eat slowly.  The ceremony is simply wonderful.  We flick drops of wine with our fingernails to represent the 10 plagues brought on the Israelites by the Egyptians.  We spill more wine to represent the loss of the Egyptian opressors’ [...]

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Eating In

So, no garden yet.  Let’s not talk about that right now.
I’ve been eating at home, which I consider boring and unworthy of blogging, but apparently the rest of the world mostly eats at home, and therefore disagrees.
In a valiant attempt to save money (in order to blow it all on an awesome summer), I have had [...]

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Big Plans

I’m going to have a garden this year. 
I’m going to call my landlord and ask if I can have this geriatric-swingers-sounding gardening phenomenon known as a “raised bed.” 
I’m going to read The Postage Stamp Gardening Book that I have owned for over a decade but have never cracked open-not once.
I’m going to buy a hoe and a shovel, [...]

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