Home Grown: get your priorities straight
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- Home Grown: get your priorities straight
- Paris discovers its playboy President
- This xenophobia has no place in Britain today
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Home Grown: get your priorities straight
Tahoe World - Dec 23, 2007
But beyond the holiday feasts, there’s another seasonal festivity that satisfies the gastronomical craving — potlucks. It’s a genius concept, really. A nice home-cooked meal to take the place of the usual mac’ and cheese, pizza, cereal or whatever combination of veggies I have in my fridge mixed with pasta or rice, tomato or soy sauce — alternated daily. Of course the best part is that you don’t have to cook everything yourself (which, considering my culinary skills, is probably better news for my guests than for me). Someone brings an appetizer, another brings a salad, usually the host cooks up an entree and a couple guests bring the side dishes. And then there’s the desert, which is my favorite dish to bring. But the last time I cooked up something sweet, I didn’t bake the fudge brownies long enough, which turned them into fudge brownie-mix (just as good).
Paris discovers its playboy President
Guardian Unlimited - Dec 23, 2007
And on the Facebook social networking site, there are already several groups devoted to a slavish following of an unlikely political hero. The group ‘My President is better than yours, he hooked up with Carla Bruni’ has more than 600 members. Certainly, it would take a leap of considerable creative powers to imagine any of our home-grown politicians exuding such effortless razzle-dazzle. Even if he were single, the notion of the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, dating a supermodel is about as far-fetched as the European Union insisting that all croissants must henceforth be baked straight. Soon, we will have the chance to examine the two leaders together in close quarters. Sarkozy confirmed last week that he would be coming on a state visit to Britain in March, possibly with Bruni. Bruni, who celebrates her 40th birthday today, is a particularly impressive presidential escort - both four inches taller than her beau and 13 years younger (Sarkozy is 53 in January).
This xenophobia has no place in Britain today
Guardian Unlimited - Dec 23, 2007
In the 19th century, the same penalty was imposed on indigenous Britons. Petty theft was grounds for transportation to the Antipodes. Perhaps it is only for want of virgin colonies that the UK does not still expel home-grown villains convicted of minor offences. Or perhaps it is because we recognise that there are different orders of transgression and that driving someone from the country they live in is an extraordinarily harsh sanction. Were there not a climate of hysteria around the idea of foreign criminals preying on law-abiding British gentlefolk, the view reflected in that prison service memo might have sounded quite practical. The Home Office has limited resources. Deportation is costly.
Remember the milkman? He’s making a comeback Home delivery from…
San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 23, 2007
Now a company called Thatcher Farm delivers three half-gallons of milk in glass bottles, along with other dairy products, to her home each week. She estimates that she pays about 50 cents a bottle more for the convenience of not having to go to the supermarket. “I’ve got a 17-year-old son at home and he drinks a lot of milk; we all do,” she said. There was an added benefit for Monahan. “I’m a 55-year-old Boomer and it’s nice to have someone else lugging those milk bottles around. Those big containers you get from the store are very heavy,” she said. With home delivery, she takes them from an insulated milk box next to the back door… The creamery started delivering milk from the back of a Ford Explorer in 2001, he said, and now has seven milk trucks and 2,000 customers. “We haven’t advertised,” he added. “We just have grown with word of mouth. The customer base of Thatcher Farm, where Monahan gets her milk, has grown by a third in two years, to 2,000, said Joe Manning, co-owner of the company. About 45 years ago, Thatcher had its own cows and distributed its own milk, but today it is mainly a distributor, getting the actual product from a nearby dairy. “We got rid of our last cow in 1962,” Manning said. In many cases, small dairy farms work with local distributors to deliver their milk to local consumers.
Dear Santa | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Collin…
Dallas Morning News - Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dec 23, 2007
But frankly, it’s been stadium hell over here. After months of bickerin’ amongst the townsfolk, our Cuzin Cluck took away some of our homes. He even ran off some home-grown bidnesses just to make room for his Cuzin Jones. Our roads? Hey, they’re such a mess, I figure even Rudolph’s nose’ll be no help in finding your way ’round. And our wallets, well, they’ve been pinched so hard they’ll be bruised for years to come. So pleeze, Santa – let it freeze, let it freeze, let it freeze. Cuz those Cuzins have gone so Scroogie they got it fixed that we kaint afford seats in that new Cowboy stadium ’til hell freezes over.