In these tough economic times, everyone’s looking to save money where they can. One of the areas I try to cut expenses is grocery shopping, but that gets more difficult to do when rising transportation costs drive food prices up, too. I already shop at Wal Mart and buy generics, despite my loathing of Wal [...]
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Chicken: The Other Purple Meat
Purple is the color of royalty. Does turning your chicken purple make your meal Chicken a la King?
Last night I reached new heights in culinary capers. No dinners were ruined, for once, but I did manage to dye our chicken purple. Deep, vivid purple. Like a bruise. Actually, by the time I’d finished cooking the [...]
A Veritable Smorgasbord; or, Why America’s So Fat
If you’re like me, you can’t think of a fair — be it a county fair or the state fair — without thinking of that catchy little tune from the 1973 animated version of Charlotte’s Web:
A fair is a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord orgasbord
After the crowds have ceased
Each night when the lights go out
It can be [...]
Mythbusting
For those of you who may not have heard, I’m writing a new novel. It’s a romantic comedy set at my alma mater, Baylor University, and a fictional Methodist church in Waco — not, mind you, a fictionalized version of the Branch Davidian compound (although I’ll grant that would make for some fascinating reading, if [...]
Death of a Salesman
Long-term readers of this blog may recal that one evening last May, Mr. Burt and I lost two hours of our lives to a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman. We didn’t willingly invite him into our home; I’d gotten a call from a neighborhood welcoming association saying that as new residents of the area (this should [...]
