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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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