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Victory Through Dog Power

11/4/2015 meps 0

Here’s a fun item from my blog, 1meps.com, about Medford, Oregon’s destination hot dog cart: Chuck Reeder, of Medford, Oregon, is a believer in street carts. “But I’m a hot-dog cart killer.” He says eight […]

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Love, in a takeout container

1/29/2015 meps 0

A couple of days ago, when the northeast was buried under many feet of snow and ice, I was driving across southern Alabama. The sun was bright, and the Gulf of Mexico sparkled like diamonds […]

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A Tablespoon of Happiness

11/17/2012 meps 2

“It’s the fruitcake of stew,” said the young man in a chef’s hat, stirring a gigantic pot over a propane burner. His companions from the Altamaha Technical College Culinary Arts program laughed, but they all […]

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Sleeping Policeman

4/16/2012 meps 0

Reprinted from my travel blog, www.mepsnbarry.com. On the side of the road, up ahead, I saw a small sign on the ground that said, “Elotes.” I was wracking my brain, trying to remember what that […]

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How to eat all day long and not get fat

3/2/2011 meps 0

We recently drove from Vero Beach to Titusville, Florida with some friends we met at the marina, Don and Joan. The four of us wanted to watch the final launch of the space shuttle Discovery. […]

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The five-hundred year vegan diet

4/23/2010 meps 0

I recently told Barry I wanted to experiment with a special diet. Based on some of the purification or “detox” diets I’d read and heard about, we would remove a bunch of foods from our […]

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Cookie rapture

12/24/2009 meps 0

This is just a brief Christmas eve photo essay, before I move onto making all my favorite Christmas Eve buffet finger foods. Barry and I received the most precious package of homemade cookies the other […]

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Restaraunt Reviews

Baaaaad Chinese

5/17/2009 meps 1

I’ve never written a review panning a restaurant before. But I’ve never had a meal this bad before. We were hungry for lunch this morning while out running errands in Beaufort. Imagining a nice plate […]

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Happy Peanut Butter & Jelly Day!

4/2/2009 meps 0

Today, April 2nd, is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Whether this is a real holiday or a bogus one, it gives me a chance to write about two of my favorite foods and two […]