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White Tea
PL here ...Welcome to the first post of this new blog, Educated Tastes - about food, drink, restaurants, recipes, groceries, the whole enchilada ...You may know me as an author of a dozen books and a...
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Sushi
PL here ...A science fiction editor I know pretty well - you won't be able to guess who she is, she hasn't edited any of my books - once said that if she wanted to eat raw fish and seaweed, she could...
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Trader Joe's
PL here ...If I were to tell you that I sometimes think the music playing in Trader Joe's is better than the food, believe me, that would only be a very high compliment about the music, because the...
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Papaya King and Gray's Papaya
PL here ...I first became impressed with Papaya King - to the point of thinking it served the best non-alcoholic drink in town - back in the late 1960s, when I was writing the songs that would become...
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Blueberry Port
PL here ...I first sipped Blueberry Port at a science fiction convention - I-Con, held at SUNY's Stony Brook campus on Long Island, New York - in 2004. Duck Walk Vineyards, a little down the road on...
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Dark Pretzels
PL here ...You've probably heard that pretzels were invented by a monk in the early dark ages - to reward children for learning their lessons - and fashioned to symbolize arms folded in prayer. But...
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Mom's Delectable Pumpkin Pie
Hello everyone - I'm Tina Vozick, aka teevoz - Paul and I have been together since 1968, married since 1976. (I was, of course, a child bride.) Our two kids, now grown, will attest that he knows a lot...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Bialy
PL here ...Bialys are pretty much a lost cause in New York, which is all the more a pity, since New York is where they made their first great stand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....A bialy...
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Baked Pasta and Chicken: One-dish deliciousness
Hello again, Teevoz here .... we haven't forgotten you! I tend to do more cooking in the winter, don't you? Well, we had our first snowfall in New York this weekend, so I thought it was time to share...
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Warm up with cabbage soup!
Teevoz checking in after the first big snowstorm of the season in New York! I've always loved the snow. I'm a January baby, and I've long believed that we most love the season we were born in - maybe...
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Ancient Pu-Ehr Tea
PL here -Thought I'd get this blog and the New Year fired up again with this brief post about this great tea Tina and I have been drinking since, I guess, this past summer or so ... I'd promise to...
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Buddy Holly and Sir Cricket's
PL here -Ok, this is a food not a music blog, though good food and music go hand-in-hand, but, just to be clear, this is a not a post about Buddy Holly. I just couldn't resist using his name in a...
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Delicious Ink
PL here - How could any writer resist writing about ink - especially the delicious kind that comes from the squid (aka calamari), and can infused into all manner of pasta? I can't resist, hence -I...
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Pineapple Mint Tea
PL here -Checking in with a recommendation for delicious non-caffeinated herbal fruit tea - pineapple mint.I found out about this from my daughter, who's married to Carlos from Brazil. She spent half a...
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I had a top-secret meeting with someone from Google last week, so rather than tell you about what we talked about, I thought I'd tell you about the lunch.It was in the Google cafeteria, some floors up...
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Spaghetti alla Norma, SWVL's Way
Hello, dear readers! It's me, SWVL.Eggplants have been one of my favorite foods since childhood. (I credit this blog's co-proprietor, my beloved mother, for introducing me to the many splendors of...
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Elk Burger
PL here -Hey, I admit to having adventurous dining tastes. Over the years, I've enjoyed venison, bison, mutton, and frog legs. Ok, maybe not that adventurous - certainly not as adventurous as Anthony...
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G-chat Avoid-the-Super-Bowl Bread Pudding
It's teevoz, back again! Last night was the Super Bowl. Yawn. Daughter MVL and I had been talking about making bread pudding some time and last night seemed like the right night to do it while we...
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Delicious Slyce!
PL here -Tina and I had a scrumptious dinner last night as the just-opened Slyce, which serves much more than pizza, though you can get that there, too.Slyce is a cosy, cool remake of Ciccone's, next...
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Shrimp and Grits
PL here -If you like shrimp and grits, the same named dish at the Élevage Restaurant in the Epicurean Hotel in Tampa is the way to go. The shrimp and grits, perfectly prepared, come with pork...
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