And those who depend on electronics in one form or another would be

up
That being most of us!

Need to depend on them to be able to read this. (G)

No gees about that!

the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.

For sure, and it's another set of reasons why people
should keep up the knowledge of how to make change,
look both ways before crossing, and write longhand.

All skills that I posses. I also know how to dial a rotary phone and
balance a check book.

When was the last time you saw a working rotary phone?
For me it must have been years.

I don't know about the Daily News; the more genteel people,
Clementine Paddleford at the Trib and Craig Claiborne were
the ones whose writing and recipes I read. The next generation
of food critics were people I knew and their friends, and then
le deluge, the youngsters born in the '50s, '60s, and beyond,
from most of whom there was little to be learned, and why
bother reading?

I had to read what was available, which was the Times. We didn't get the local daily paper (parents did buy it some years after I left home) and
the weeklies had no food section.

I'm not knocking the Times in general but found
the sports coverage less than "fit to print."

In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
The instruction was the same, the endowments different.

Quite so. (G)

Now they're one, with the original Radcliffe resources
funneled into an "institute" that encompasses a few
symposia, a library of early women's stuff (largely
cookbooks), and to my knowledge not much else.

Good for those that want to go into women's studies in one area or
another. Maybe if they have some issues of "Goody's Ladies Book" for
fashions and suchlike design students would find interesting.

I'm sure that would have been available at least in
microfiche in the main library.

its 4:1 ratio.

The college I went to was co-ed from the beginning.

Enlightened.

It was founded as an alternative to the taverns and such like visited by
the canalers in the area.

There had to have been something in between!

I could navigate Moscow because I can transliterate Cyrillic,
slowly. Plus the underground is in fact color-coded.

Color coding is a big help, unless you're color blind. (G) I've never
gotten into Cyrillic so have no idea how to transliterate or translate
it.

Probably Wikipedia has a chart that would help.

fb > and text quite often so have (sort of) kept up that way but it's not

like being there.

Counting the hours and the minutes, too ... .

That would work if we knew when we were going to see the kids again. We
did see Rachel's, via Face Time, (or some other phone chat, not sure
what Steve ended up connecting with) the other day.

I've still never had a phone chat.

Roast Muscovy Duck
1 Muscovy duck (4 lb)

Presumably some other type of duck would work if you couldn't get a
Muscovy?

Any old domestic duck should be fine: I
prefer the fattier Pekin and the tastier
Moulard anyway.

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Title: Tom Moore's Irish Stew Casserole
Categories: Irish, Lamb, Stews, Casseroles
Yield: 2 servings

1 lb Lean lamb, the shoulder
-or leg, cut into 1" dice
2 Potatoes, peeled and
-thinly sliced
1 Onion, thinly sliced
pn [generous] rosemary
Chicken or lamb stock
Salt, pepper to taste

Layer one third of the potatoes in a small casserole. Top with half
the lamb and half the onion. Sprinkle lightly with rosemary, salt
and pepper. Repeat layers, ending with a final layer of potato. Add
enough chicken stock to almost cover the stew.

Cover the casserole and bake in a 325 oven until the lamb is quite
tender and the potatoes begin to almost dissolve and thicken the
mixture. (1- 1 1/2 hours)

I've made this in larger quantities in a crock pot. In this case, the
cooking time will be about 8-10 hours.

I got these directions for making Irish Stew (no real recipe) from the
owner of Tom Moore's Tavern in Bermuda (don't know how authentic it
is, as the gentleman was German, but it IS good) .

Kathy in Bryan, TX

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Hi Michael,

And those who depend on electronics in one form or another

would be > ML> up

That being most of us!

Need to depend on them to be able to read this. (G)

No gees about that!

That's why I had the (G) with my comment.

the proverbial creek without the proverbial paddle.

For sure, and it's another set of reasons why people
should keep up the knowledge of how to make change,
look both ways before crossing, and write longhand.

All skills that I posses. I also know how to dial a rotary phone and balance a check book.

When was the last time you saw a working rotary phone?
For me it must have been years.

I know my parents had them for years, don't know if there was still one
in use when I was last up there (November, 2017). My brother had moved
into the house a couple of years before that and probably got rid of all
rotary phones but do know they were in the house a good long time.

le deluge, the youngsters born in the '50s, '60s, and beyond,
from most of whom there was little to be learned, and why
bother reading?

I had to read what was available, which was the Times. We didn't get

the > local daily paper (parents did buy it some years after I left
home) and > the weeklies had no food section.

I'm not knocking the Times in general but found
the sports coverage less than "fit to print."

Still kept me up on the Mets, even if I just checked box scores. I do
more of that than read write ups (very few of them for the Mets) in the
Raleigh paper.

In my day, we had Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls.
The instruction was the same, the endowments different.

Quite so. (G)

Now they're one, with the original Radcliffe resources
funneled into an "institute" that encompasses a few
symposia, a library of early women's stuff (largely
cookbooks), and to my knowledge not much else.

Good for those that want to go into women's studies in one area or another. Maybe if they have some issues of "Godey's Ladies Book"

for ML> > fashions and suchlike design students would find interesting.

I'm sure that would have been available at least in
microfiche in the main library.

Quite possibly so.

its 4:1 ratio.

The college I went to was co-ed from the beginning.

Enlightened.

It was founded as an alternative to the taverns and such like

visited by > the canalers in the area.

There had to have been something in between!

Don't know, it was (and still is) a very small town. Very little in it
besides the college.

I could navigate Moscow because I can transliterate Cyrillic, slowly. Plus the underground is in fact color-coded.

Color coding is a big help, unless you're color blind. (G) I've

never > gotten into Cyrillic so have no idea how to transliterate or translate > it.

Probably Wikipedia has a chart that would help.

If I'm that desperite.

Counting the hours and the minutes, too ... .

That would work if we knew when we were going to see the kids again.

We > did see Rachel's, via Face Time, (or some other phone chat, not
sure

what Steve ended up connecting with) the other day.

I've still never had a phone chat.

It works--allows you to be more mobile than Skype. She walked to the
various kid's rooms so they could all see us/wish me a happy birthday.
(G)

Roast Muscovy Duck
1 Muscovy duck (4 lb)

Presumably some other type of duck would work if you couldn't get a Muscovy?

Any old domestic duck should be fine: I
prefer the fattier Pekin and the tastier
Moulard anyway.

I've had duck a few times but never found out what kind it was. Tried an
Alton Brown recipe for duck with chard once; it was ok, not great. Dont
knoww if we kept the recipe or ditched it, figuring it wasn't worth the
fuss for what the end result was. OTOH, I was going thru a bunch of old newspaper clippings last week, found one for lemon blueberry bars. Made
it, it's definately a keeper.

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