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Pie-ety
by Steve Penhollow In the summer of 2023, I went to Clay’s Family Restaurant in Fremont and ate 12 pieces of pie. I don’t mean that I went to Clay’s 12 times and ate a piece of pie each time. I don’t mean that I went to Clay’s six times and ate two pieces of…
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A Bowl of Red (& Also Brown)
by Steve Penhollow I arrived in Elwood at 11:50 am on a Saturday, parked my car and made my way to the information booth for the Ellwood/Red Gold Chili Cook-Off. I thought everything was in order, but I would soon discover that things aren’t always as they seem. “We’re out of tickets,” a man told…
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Snootchie Kombuchie!
Perhaps you’ve heard someone mention it on a talk show, seen it at your local convenience store or read about it in Kombucha Magazine, which you purchased because you thought the title referred to the Brazilian martial art that Jason Bourne used in “The Bourne Redundancy.” But Kombucha is not the Brazilian martial art that…
Try As I May 