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I recently spent a fun afternoon in the kitchen, watching college football and making sausage. I had invited several friends to join me for the sausage making experience, then to make pasta and an Italian dinner. Unfortunately for both the invitees (because they missed a fun afternoon and good sausage) and me (because I ended up solo – which is not exactly recommended when you set out to make twelve pounds of sausage!), the Covid-19 social distancing situation continues to th

June 27, 2020 Covid Beater Coq au Vin! Get togethers in my community have sometimes not gone as originally planned.  Back in February, for example, the Italian Night we planned was ‘interrupted’ when one of the hostesses had a medical situation arise that kept her from participating and kept the rest of us glued to our phones for updates! This time, the social-distancing rules to combat Covid-19 caused a late change in plans when a member of our group raised concerns about di

March 17, 2020 Interview with Kate Delaney I recently got to experience a fun element of my literary journey when Kate Delaney, a nationally syndicated radio personality, asked to interview me about “Some Adventures Outdoors (and In the Kitchen!)!”  We spoke for nearly a half hour prior to the interview so that she could get a feeling about me, the book, and how the interview might develop. Fortunately for both of us, she made me feel very much at ease.  Although she hadn’t r

September 20, 2022 As the story arc of Some Adventures Outdoors (and In the Kitchen!)  and Some Southern Adventures Outdoors (and In the Kitchen!)  continues, a new opportunity recently appeared in mid-June when my literary consultant informed me that agents for at least two multi-media companies had expressed interest in acquiring the rights to the books to develop screenplay or teleplay treatments.  The ‘memoir’ approach of the books that chronicle my lifetime fishing and h

February 15, 2020 When I initially suggested to a group of friends that we get together to make sausage one afternoon or evening, holiday goings-on got in the way.  Those friends, however, were intrigued: none of them had ever made sausage and they wanted to see how it was done. Once everyone got through the holidays, I brought up the idea again and we began to plan an informal ‘event’ that centered on home made sausage.  One of those friends is from a big Italian family, and

I recently wrote about the new experience of preparing a screenplay treatment of Some Adventures Outdoors (and In the Kitchen!) and Some Southern Adventures Outdoors (and In the Kitchen!) to better position the books for acquisition by a multi-media company wanting to adapt them for the screen as either a documentary or a TV series.  In parallel, my literary consultant approached me to recommend that I schedule a ‘book signing’ event at the Miami International Book Fair at M

April 15, 2020 Sheltered-In-Place but Eating Well! Enter Covid-19! I’ve been sheltered in place since February 19 th ! Although our state’s governor didn’t issue a state-wide shelter-in-place order until early April, our county government issued the order on – you guessed it – March 25 th ! So, it’s been essentially 7 weeks homebound, and I’m running out of creative ideas for dinnerl  Fortunately, most of the recipes in Some Adventures Outdoors (and In the Kitchen!) and Some

February 4, 2020 As I hope is reflected in my cookbooks, I truly enjoy cooking!  In addition, I really enjoy inventing new dishes and menus.  A problem I’ve encountered in the time since the passing of my wife, Susan, is that of cooking too much food for one person!  Part of the problem, I must confess, is that I’m not a big fan of leftovers – even when they’re delicious! Slowly but surely, I’ve been working to combat ending up with too much food by packaging things I bring h