There’s a small café called Norton’s in the tiny town of Newt’s Bluff, Nebraska, where, in 1983, I acquired one of the most unique recipes you’ll ever taste.
This dish was a once-secret Chinese recipe crafted by the head chef at Norton’s. His name was Lloyd. He was a small, gray-haired man, who I guessed [...]
I remember well my first bachelor picnic. It was a special time with a special gal. It was when I first learned about the birds and the bees.
I met Maggie shortly after Millie, who was between Myla and Mary. On that particular Sunday, we spread our blanket in a small patch of yellow daisies near [...]
When I swore off trying to find a good woman at poker games, I decided to do the one thing that finally made sense to me – I began watching Oprah.
Oprah knows women. And the more I watched, the more I learned. In fact, I learned that one of the best places to meet women [...]
Tuna boat. What an interesting name for a sandwich. I remember when I was a shipmate on a tuna boat. Well, it wasn’t a real tuna boat. Well, it was a real tuna boat in a sense, just not a commercial tuna boat.
My friend Paco and I decided in 1992 to catch tuna for a [...]
The more I studied the mushroom for this dish, the more intrigued I became. I learned that average people actually make a living growing them.
Because mushrooms thrive in warm, moist climates, I headed south to learn more. My first stop was Cap, North Carolina. Fern and Stump Sotherland raised Shitake mushrooms. They had acres of [...]
