It was still dark when I woke up for the third or fourth time that night. I reached under my pillow and pulled out my mother’s little folding travel clock with the fake alligator hide and opened it to view the green-glowing hands and numerals: 4:45 a.m.! We were under strict instructions to not wake …
Author Archives: Kevin Weeks
Milk: The Raw Deal
December 15, 2008 – 5:00 am
A few days ago I received an offer to purchase unpasteurized milk for my pets from a local organic farm. For $103 I’d receive a gallon of raw milk once a week for 12 weeks. I’ll save you the trouble of doing the math: that’s $8.58 a gallon. I’m really fond of my cat, but …
Review: Domestic Caviar
December 8, 2008 – 5:00 am
I had an odd conversation with my mother the other day. We were talking about my father’s third volume of memoirs (not published, a purely personal project of his) and my mother commented, “We were rich!” “Rich?!” That’s not what I recall. Sure, we were comfortably middle-class, and, with two well-educated working parents in the …
Yo! Nick! – A Cook’s Christmas List
December 1, 2008 – 5:00 am
Polls are indicating that people are eating out less, and when they do it tends to be at fast food joints. For example, Applebees sales are reportedly down about 15 percent while McDonalds are up by eight. But people are also doing more of their own cooking in order to economize. So this Christmas, I …
