Archives in Category: Dining/Food

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Health Club Benefits

Posted on January 24, 2006

I’ve probably never given a health club a chance before now. Even when I belonged to the exclusive East Bank Club in Chicago, it was all about the massages and the manicures and meeting friends for dinner. Before that, I

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Goodbye Starbucks

Posted on December 17, 2005

Dear Starbucks,
I have had a long, passionate and faithful affair with you, starting about ten years ago when I fell in love with your lattes. You fueled my caffeine desire and lit my beverage life. I was willing

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Atkins

Posted on December 5, 2005

Earl and I are on the Atkins Diet, the one where you can eat anything you want as long as it isn’t milk, bread, pasta, potatoes, fruit, or desserts. We’ve done this before to more or less success; and, although

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Grand Central

Posted on November 10, 2005

Every time I visit New York City I see an old friend. Sometimes it’s just to linger over drinks; sometimes it’s for a leisurely dinner. Either way, it’s great to be back in Grand Central, the grande dame of refurbished

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Lox Plate

Posted on November 6, 2005

This morning we ate breakfast with Earl’s daughter and son-in-law at a charming restaurant in Douglas, Michigan. As a rule, I prefer to skip the first meal of the day, but Everyday People (an unusual name for an eatery, although

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Pantry Plans

Posted on November 2, 2005

I’m still sitting in dust listening to drills drone and hammers pound, still waiting for our bathroom project to finish. This is Week Five, and Earl and I have had to make an adjustment in our time schedule. In fact,

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Breakfast

Posted on October 1, 2005

Bob Evans at eight in the morning is a bustling place, especially on Saturdays during college football season. I know this firsthand, because Earl and I went there today. Three waitresses wore University of Michigan T-shirts, which elicited various responses

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Crockpots

Posted on September 19, 2005

There are crackpots and there are crockpots. This essay is about the latter.

I decided about a week ago to see if I could revitalize my interest in cooking by using crockpot recipes. In the past, I’ve always thought crockpot

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Little Dining Drama

Posted on August 24, 2005

Last night Earl and I went to dinner at one of my favorite local restaurants, Grande Mere Inn. I must say it has a lot of things going against it; but, in the end, I still like the place. Why?

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Sorry About That

Posted on August 14, 2005

“Oops, I forgot your toast,” the server said, as she laid the rest of our breakfast on the table. “Sorry about that.”

“Hey, our head chef didn’t come in to work today, and nobody else knows how to make poached

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