Monday, May 25, 2015

Excerpts from "Tales of the Amarugia Highlands"

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Tales of the Amarugia Highlands of Cass County, Missouri By Donald Lewis Osborn (1972) "In the summer of 1894, Father bought the old...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Recipes: Pfeffernüsse

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From my grandmother's cookbook: 1 cup Crisco 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 3/4 cup white sugar 1 egg 3/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp anise oil 1/4 tsp clo...

10 German Foods I Miss Most

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Bavarian Kraut Döner Kebab (German Gyros) Pfeffernüsse (Pepper Cookies) Radler (Biker Beer) Riesling Rote Grütze (Red Fruit Pudding) Spargel...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Photos!

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I've got all my photos posted to Facebook. If you aren't my friend there yet, well, now's a good time. :)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Back In Town

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Still working on those photos. Hopefully I'll have them up soon. The trip back was uneventful; however, I'm still amazed/confused by...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Better than I could put it

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This article in the New York Times summarizes better than I could all of the flat-out weirdness that goes on here. Sometimes it's like...

Beijing Impressions, Day 6 continued

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I don't see many non-Chinese restaurants around town (besides McDonald's), but middle eastern food appears to be popular. I've n...

Beijing Impressions, Day 6

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Today I took it pretty easy, relatively speaking. Headed over to the Temple of Heaven, one of four that surrounds the city (Heaven, Earth, S...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Holy crap, I wasn't kidding

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Remember what I was saying about volunteers? Apparently, out of two million applicants, they chose 100,000 people to work at the venues, an...

Beijing Impressions, Day 5 continued

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A quick rant first: there's a standard way of writing Chinese words in Western characters, known as Pinyin . Among other things, it incl...

Beijing Impressions, Day 5

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Headed off to the Great Wall this morning. Confession: I cheated and took the cable car to the top. Yeah, I know, I'm not proud of mysel...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Beijing Impressions, Day 4 continued

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This evening I had a ticket for track and field, which means that I finally got to go to the Olympic Green and the National Stadium, otherwi...

Beijing Impressions, Day 4

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So today, the Forbidden City. And do mean all day; I probably spent almost eight hours there. My feet feel like hamburger right now. Anyway,...
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