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Pie Principles | The Faster Times
Some Practical Consequences of Going Metric
My recent entry: President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter has generated a fair amount of email (thank you, by the way). Among the comments were concerns about various aspects of doing the conversion, specifically about all that math to go from one system to another. Then there were comments about the realities of conversion. Let me try to address both of those items.
Posted in Gov't and Politics
Tagged area, cm, conversion, cooking, gram, inch-pound, kg, kilogram, kilometer, km, length, mail, mass, math, meter, metric, metrication, metrification, mile, odometer, paper, publishing, shortcut, speed, transition, weight
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Anna Ellison, the Muse of Cakes
I love “Ace of Cakes”. It’s one of the most entertaining shows on television. There’s heart, humor, art, and oh-no-they-dint moments in most episodes. That said, there is one person on the Charm City Cakes staff that is guaranteed to make me watch episode after episode: art director Anna Ellison.
Posted in Snippets
Tagged ace of cakes, anna ellison, art, cake, charm city cakes, cooking, director, duff, food, food network, painter, television, tv
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CJ’s Cheesy Cheese Bread Recipe
A Chile Verde Recipe
I’ve been asked, me being a native New Mexican and all, if I have any good chile recipes. Of course I do. I figured I’d share a simple variant of the one done most often in our home. We always have this green chile sauce available to put on everything from burritos to baked potatoes to just eating it straight with chips. This recipe isn’t exactly the one we make (have to keep some family secrets, after all), but it … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged chile, cooking, cuisine, ethnic, food, green chile, hatch, hot, mexican, new mexico, nm, recipe, spicey, traditional, vegetarian
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The Sweet Smell of August Chile
Different states have their different “things” that separate them from the rest of the pack. In New Mexico, that thing comes in August, when the new crop of chile becomes available. To a lot of people whose exposure to chile is eating at some franchise restaurant every so often, this obsession with chile is thought of as being somewhat abnormal. The fact that the official state question is: “red or green” should indicate how serious we are about our curious … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged albuquerque, childhood memories, chile, cooking, food, green chile, hatch chile, home cooking, memories, new mexico, nm, preparation, roasting, tradition
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