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Monthly Archives: September 2009

How To Live Like Great-great-grandma, Part 3

We’ve already learned my girls aren’t interested in milking cows. (And by the way, neither are most of you.) And that Hale Farm and Village clearly represents a very wealthy historic town, since they have an organ and a “school bus”. So how about the domestic work? Would any of us want to cook the [...]

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How To Make Creamy Asparagus Soup

Now that fall is back, it’s time to start doing soup again. This one is thick and creamy, great by itself, or as an ingredient in casseroles — anywhere you’d normally do a can of cream of celery soup. Because canned soup is usually nasty. Oh sure, it tastes good, but have you ever read [...]

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How To Live Like Great-great-grandma, Part 2

In the first set of shots from Hale Farm and Village, the girls learned that they liked going to school just fine, compared to all the work they’d have to do on the farm. Now, they get to see a bit about community life.

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How To Make Bacon Mayonnaise

I’ve speculated about this before. I thought it should work, and someday I was going to just get down to it and try. But someone beat me to it. I’m still going to, but in the meantime, here’s how Ari Weinzweig does it.

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The Truth About Most Food Health Claims

Asbestos is bad; definitely get the one on the right. Wait — this one over here has no swine flu! Now I can’t decide. It’s funny because it’s true.

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