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Soup Crafter: Divine Proportion Part 1: Braised Beef Shanks
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Monday, February 6, 2012. Divine Proportion Part 1: Braised Beef Shanks. Leonardo De Vinci is most closely associated with that which is known as Divine Proportion and the Golden Ratio, but not rightly so. It has captured Western imaginations for over 2400 years from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece to present day mathematicians and physicists. (. Wikipedia full text and a must read even if you don’t have time. It seems that trendy and pricey pricy restaurants across the U.S. have added ei...Under...
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Soup Crafter: August 2014
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014. A Cultural Transition to American. Gus’s nephew, Burk, explained, you know how it was with those old “Krauts,” they just can’t get along. This was a tradition carried from villages in the “old country” into the new. The idea of a village church was made over for a new, industrial and urban world. Similarly every three years the denomination held youth conventions for young people aged sixteen and above and those in young adulthood. These were held in separate years from th...
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Soup Crafter: Artisan Pork and Beans
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Thursday, November 18, 2010. Artisan Pork and Beans. Why should anyone make baked beans when B&M and Bush’s make pretty good canned beans? Because they can be better made at home, though it takes awhile. At some point canned goods move from preserved foods to food products. Baked beans straddle the border. Here is where the artisan pork and beans come in. My home made beans are magnificent. We found Charlie Bracket. He was delighted. We didn't find a cookbook on our journey up the coast. It wasn't fo...
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Soup Crafter: 54 MPG & Veal Oscar for Nixon
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Friday, September 7, 2012. 54 MPG and Veal Oscar for Nixon. Richard Nixon was a veal Oscar kind of guy. I mean the imperial presidency, Watergate and all that. But mostly it was the way over the top, gaudy and ridiculously ostentatious garb he foisted on the Whitehouse uniformed security staff that tipped his hand. The term imperial presidency, according to Wikipedia, surfaced in the 1960s. The concept of the president governing beyond constitutional bounds was formalized by Arthur Schlesinger Jr....
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Soup Crafter: Italian Potato Salad: Chastised by the Master
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Friday, August 31, 2012. Italian Potato Salad: Chastised by the Master. Following Hazan’s lead, I might offer this ‘recipe’ on this Midwest classic - parsley buttered potatoes: In taking the measure of a good home cook, many Midwesterners might agree that among the criteria there would have to be the quality of the parsley buttered potatoes. . . . Get my drift. The potato salad pictured here, as part of a simple luncheon plate, with smoked salmon, a cucumber salad and tomatoes, builds on the idea of pota...
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Soup Crafter: September 2014
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Thursday, September 18, 2014. 8220;White Privilege”: Call it instead “The Privilege of the Ruling Elite”. My grandson has begun to speak. I am the Morfar. Morfar is Old Norse for maternal grandfather. And I chose to be called that rather than grandpa, first because it has certain Nordic fierceness, and second grandpa sounds too old to suit me. A Tale of Two Cultures. Milwaukee has become more racially divided, more economically divided and more violent. Per capita, the city of Milwaukee’s murde...8220; &...
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Soup Crafter: June 2014
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014. On Homicide and Public Health. Because I am a conservative and because of where I live, I am already dismissed as racist. What follows is an updated column that was originally published by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in 2003. It was hard writing. At the time my coffee table book had a cheery title - Death in Wisconsin 2002. Since then not much has changed and possibly have only gotten worse. Ensuring Public Health and Safety. The US Environmental Protection Agency for example...
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Soup Crafter: Damn, I like my rescue mutt.
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Monday, June 22, 2015. Damn, I like my rescue mutt. Training a Rescue Dog. I adopted a rescue dog from the human society. Previously, I had pure breed hunting dogs. This time around, I just wanted a good companion/house dog. My bird hunting days are fading, but a dog to walk every day is good thing. And for that a rescue dog would do and it wouldn’t cost $1000 or more. I’ve trained two good bird dogs, mostly following Richard Wolters’ classic Gun Dog. Nature of a Cur. His methods worked well for my first...
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Soup Crafter: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. Tripping Through the Great Depression. Lockwood. Drake. Nokomis. Gus thought of a farm on the high Canadian plain. Somewhere wanderlust had taken over. By 1934 he had landed in a Milwaukee employment office. There wasn't much employment to be had. You might get a half a day's work cleaning a basement. Other times you sat. With twenty-five years and thousands of miles behind him, he sat broke in Milwaukee, hoping to clean someone's basement. Rather than twenty or forty acres an...
