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...this new-old cooking, the late James Beard, an early champion of American food, said, "It doesn't matter if it's regional, Momma or Aunt Hattie. If it's good, it's worth saving." But he warned that the conserving must be done with expertise. Many hope that New York Times Food Editor Craig Claiborne is equally correct with his prediction: "I don't think we're going back to plain old pot roast. We're not going back to Jell-O That's ridiculous...
...village in eastern Canada, Francis had his maternal grandfather to thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes him during a siege of whooping cough...
...lately: a celebrity desperate to get back in the spotlight. She keeps her old TV Guide cover and a portrait of her Leno appearance framed in her house like a shrine to a former, dead self. She gets a chance to land a network sitcom--playing the prudish aunt on a lame-brained sex comedy--if she'll also do a reality series about her comeback. She signs up because, she says, "Reality TV is the reality...
...hand. I was the only Western journalist staying at the Baumond, a small bed and breakfast fifteen minutes from Freedom Square. As everyone else was slipping in to the high threadcount sheets at the sleek and thoroughly modern Courtyard Marriot, I was being shown in to what looked like aunt Edna's room. A bed, a desk and armoire fit snugly into the space. I was happy I was only staying there for a few hours. "Probably not a lot of wi-fi here," I joked to myself looking at the wash-pail-sized tub (sans shower curtain...
...taking over as the new Luke. I don’t know if the show can handle a switch. Even “Fresh Prince,” unquestionably one of the greatest television programs of all time, was never the same after the replacement of Aunt...