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Beside my bedroom, bathroom and a 16-mile hall, the rest of my flat is an open floor plan.
I could have had just a giant living room, or a living room/barroom combo that the last tenant decided …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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5/18/23
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New York-style, Chicago deep dish ... they are all well and good, but if you want to meet a tribe deadly serious about “pie,” come to New Jersey. (Although if we were being honest, I …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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5/3/23
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Years ago, I got an email from my editor about a bloggers’ luncheon in the Fairview dining room at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham. She asked if I was interested.
Yes, on so many …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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4/26/23
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Gentle Reader, I’d like to tell you about a friend of mine from my junior high years in San Diego.
Her name was Debbie Zinn.
In my eyes, she was fearless and glamorous. She was always …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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4/19/23
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One is a relative newcomer that comes with many names and in many colors.
The second is so ubiquitous at the holidays that it has become almost an American inside joke.
And the third has been …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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4/12/23
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Chopped is a show on Food Network. Four chefs are confronted by three baskets with four mystery foodstuffs in each. With them, they must cook an appetizer course, then main course, and finally …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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4/5/23
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When I went to high school, I lived in Elizabeth City. Way back then, we had horse-less carriages and gas was only about 50 cents a gallon.
So, on the weekend, we would hop into our vehicles …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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3/29/23
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Honestly, it’s a wonder I could look another chicken egg in the face once my dad explained how babies were born.
And Gentle Reader, I think the preceding statement gives you a pretty good …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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3/22/23
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I always offer a bit of advice for the uninitiated at my mother’s dinner table.
If you’re really hungry and want a lot more, tell her you want a little more. If you only want a little …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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3/8/23
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So, I had a theory, that then took a hard left.
Although I love frosting, and think it should be a food group (whole grains, lean protein, buttercream…) cream cheese is pretty low on my …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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3/1/23
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These days I eat a dinner salad three or four days a week.
That wasn’t always the case. In my life, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with salads of all types.
When I was a kid, …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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2/15/23
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Here’s a piece of trivia for you: Chapel Hill native James Taylor got his start by playing and singing as a teenager at a local institution, Merritt’s Grill.
In 1929, Ruby and Eben …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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1/25/23
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“I like pork chops.”
For some, that statement is the equivalent of a fireworks and marching band declaration.
I grew up eating chops made with the store-bought crumb mixture. But …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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1/18/23
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I was born with what I believe is a legitimate congenital defect.
The technical, Latin nomenclature for this is (or should be) Lingua Infans , or “Baby Tongue.”
Regardless of …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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1/4/23
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Cherished Gentle Readers, you may not know this, but you are not alone.
In addition to writing for the Chatham News and Record, I also pen columns for the newspapers in Sanford and …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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12/21/22
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Puerto Ricans have their own version of the warming, life-affirming chicken soup made by Jewish grandmothers.
Only it’s a drink, which is a heck of a lot more fun, and way tastier. It’s a …
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BY DEBBIE MATTHEWS, The Curious Cook
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12/14/22
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