- Friday, July 31, 2009
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Long shadow
Posted by CD • 6:32pm
Olivia casts a long shadow at Dartmoor as the sun was getting low.
- Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Memorable Recipes Memorable Recipes | By Renée Behnke with Cynthia Nims | (Andrews McMeel, $35 hardcover)
Posted by Kim Davaz • 1:14pm
Kitchen store owner shares memories By Kim Davaz If there’s anyone who would know her way around a kitchen, it’s the owner of a kitchen store. Or many kitchen stores. Renée Behnke and her husband Carl bought the original Sur La Table kitchen store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market in 1995, and now have more than 75 Sur La Tables. Behnke grew up in a family who valued good food, and she begins her cookbook “Memorable Recipes to Share With Family and Friends” with some of her own food memories. The introduction continues with a guide to planning parties as well…
- Saturday, July 18, 2009
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Hall of mirrors
Posted by CD • 10:59am
This was a part of a Saturday bus ride extravaganza.
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Diggin’ a breakfast treat
Posted by CD • 8:02am
Eliot enjoys a bialy and an Italian soda at Barry’s Espresso Bakery & Deli at 2805 Oak St. in Eugene on a Saturday morning outing.
- Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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Secrets of the Red Lantern Secrets of the Red Lantern | By Pauline Nguyen | (Andrews McMeel, $40, hardcover)
Posted by Kim Davaz • 1:14pm
Recipes sprinkled into fascinating story of boat people By Kim Davaz “Secrets of the Red Lantern” isn’t a warm memoir of a happy kitchen. Instead, it has hardship (Nguyen family members were among the first boat people to leave Vietnam after the Americans left), embarrassment (think of being a child and daily having to transport a goat leg in a rattletrap grocery cart) and a father with impossible standards. After leaving Vietnam in a handmade boat and going through two refugee camps, the family emigrated to Australia. Eventually more of the extended family came to Australia, often living with the Nguyens…
