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Maybe you are walking down the street.  Maybe it is a fall morning and the crimson maple leaves are blowing in circles in the gutters in the light breeze and the sky is cracking blue and it is Saturday and … Continue reading →

Until I was nearly ten, I lived just blocks away from what I took for granted was the world’s greatest river, the Big Muddy itself, the Mighty Mississippi River.  We lived on a spacious double lot at the intersection of … Continue reading →

When he hit, he nailed it.  Like a 20 lb. sledge hitting a finishing brad.  Like a Mike Tyson uppercut.  Like a Clarence Clemons sax riff. My friend the Birddog (aka Don Hurley of http://www.donhurleyoutdoors.com fame) and I were floating … Continue reading →

Tooling eastbound and down on I-90 through the mountains of Idaho and far western Montana the other day, things weren’t looking good.   Blown-out.  Blasted.  Browner than a milkshake.   In the backseat of the Passat I had my flyrod, a box … Continue reading →

One of my favorite food-o-phile scribes, Jim Harrison, once wrote that “the idea is to eat well and not die from it–for the simple reason that it would be the end of your eating.”  “Word,” as the young people say. … Continue reading →

My friends at Exit133.com were gracious enough to publish the original versions of Mise en Place.  Those original 9 columns are archived here.  I had a ton of fun creating the first iterations of Meez and I think my understanding … Continue reading →

Awhile back, my friends at Exit133 (www.exit133.com) gave me the opportunity to post some columns on their excellent blog.  This was one of those. Confessions of a Food-o-phile Norman Maclean opens his full-of-grace novella “A River Runs Through It” with the … Continue reading →