Jumat, 25 September 2009

Homage to Chris Acerno and His Culinary Passion

Homage to Chris Acerno and His Culinary Passion Photo of the 1983 Herkimer Generals. I am wearing # 7 and the lone brother on the team. Chris Acerno is located almost directly above me wi...

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Kamis, 24 September 2009

MAC AND CHEESE TO THE RESCUE For Herkimer College Frosh

MAC AND CHEESE TO THE RESCUE For Herkimer College Frosh Left to right, Brian Lahr (Geneva NY), me, and Joe Mesmer (Rochester, NY), in game against Hobart College’s B team, fall 1983. We played fal...

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Rabu, 23 September 2009

COUPON CLIPPING COOKING

Both Herkimer classmate Ed Anderson and I remembered shopping on a limited budget at the town’s Great American Super Market. I’d cut out foo...

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Selasa, 22 September 2009

LEARNING TO COOK IN HERKIMER

I enrolled in Herkimer County Community College (HCCC) in the Mohawk Valley in the fall of 1981. At the time, Herkimer did not have dorms so...

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Minggu, 20 September 2009

Yonkers' Police Called to Arrest Costco Food Coupon Thief

Yonkers' Police Called to Arrest Costco Food Coupon Thief Photo of my Costco Coupon book, considered Like Gold by some customers, Photo, Frederick Douglass Opie I am a regular Saturday morning groce...

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Sabtu, 19 September 2009

BUFFALO WINGS

BUFFALO WINGS Hot Wings, Photo Asten Morgan Jr. The folks in the Central New York are crazy about Buffalo wings! I found that out when I enrolled in Herki...

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Jumat, 18 September 2009

Empanadas and Bodega Food

Empanadas and Bodega Food Photo of Guava Empanadas just like the ones I started eating in the 1980s in North Tarrytown. Latin Americans bodegas in North Tarrytown (no...

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Kamis, 17 September 2009

Caution Hot Patties Fresh Out the Oven

In my last year of high school I started going to Ossining on the number 13 public bus. Some people in my almost lilly white hometown of Cro...

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Rabu, 16 September 2009

The Croton Dinner

The Croton Dinner Photo of the Croton Dinner located on the corner of 9A and 129 in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. Great food at a family run business! I talke...

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Selasa, 15 September 2009

All You Can Eat Pasta and Garlic Bread

All You Can Eat Pasta and Garlic Bread The Old Ossining Elks’ Club twenty years after I use to go there for spaghetti dinners. The club and the surrounding property are overgrown ...

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Senin, 14 September 2009

Homage to Mrs. Vasta and Her Pizza

Growing up in a town with lots of Italian Americans exposed me to Italian foodways. Foods such as Italian wedge sandwiches, Italian ices in ...

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