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Skriven 2014-03-12 17:44:27 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10758 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: traveling 303
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 10 Mar 14  17:37:00 <=-

 ML>> The dive bar has gotten somewhat respectable (oysters on the
 ML>> half shell, $1.25 each; the $2 burger she remembered is now
 ML>> $12 or so but $8 or so on Happy Hour), 
 NB>> Inflation and longevity can do that... ;)
 ML> Indeed. It was a fairly decent burger.

Fortunately, for the price...  :)
 
 ML> I was kind of glad. Down the bottom of the hang gliding cliff
 ML> is what is apparently a nice beach, not safely accessible; it
 ML> has gotten a reputation as a fine gay hangout (you have to be
 ML> pretty secretive and pretty desperate to risk your hide to hide,
 ML> but back in the day, hiding was a necessity).

I suppose one could get in easier than getting out...?
 
 ML>> I figure a beemer can go 70 or 80 in third gear, so there's
 ML>> plenty of room for excitement of both good and bad sorts still.
 NB>> But less likely a chance for a high speeding ticket...  :)   As long,
 NB>> that is, as she's only using those higher speeds on expressways with
 NB>> speed limits 65 and up...  ;)
 ML> I can't tell you but sort of hope she continues to prosper
 ML> for some time to come.
 
I hope she does, too... :)  Other than her bland eating habits, she
seems to be a person I'd get along with pretty well... ;)

 NB>> Are you sure that there wasn't some measure of auto-pilot on
 NB>> those curves...?  If she drove them regularly enough, she'd probably
 NB>> have gained a feel for what was coming next...  :)
 ML> Like those hazardous places in video games that you learn
 ML> to get past, so that on your subsequent iterations you can
 ML> go through without any trouble, yes sort of like that. But
 ML> this time it's real, so if you blink or sneeze, whoooops.

Part of the auto-pilot probably includes the don't sneeze here... (G)
 
 NB>> triggered for me... I have a cookbook on my shelf called the Silver
 NB>> Palate Good Times cookbook... apparently a second cookbook from a
 NB>> couple of women that run (ran?) a catering/restaurant business in
 NB>> NYC... I'm sure it was one of my cookbook book club selections, of
 NB>> many years back...  
 ML> There was this team, Sheila Lukens and Julie Rosso, who wrote
 ML> pretty decent cookbooks under that monicker, but the recipe in
 ML> question was a crap recipe, so I doubted the attribution.

Ah...  Yes those were the authors of mine...

 ML> Sad to relate, the two parted ways, and Julie started writing her
 ML> own cookbooks, including quantities of crap recipes that it
 ML> turns out nobody had ever tested. I don't think the subsequent
 ML> books went under the title Silver Palate. Tin maybe.

I didn't keep up with the book club... but the later books might not
have made it through the selection process anyway...  I suppose one
could get a book into print faster if one didn't take the time to test
the recipes, just figured they looked reasonble... ;(  Not that it would
help long-term sales...  Reminiscent of our discussions of Moosewood and
its later days...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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