Jan Norris: Food and Florida

By Debbie Moose, columnist Potato salad is often content to sit on the sidelines, cooling its heels beside the hot action going on at the grill. And if you’re the main cook – which I am in my house – preparing potato salad the traditional way means you have to fuss in the kitchen, boiling [...]

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Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Debbie Moose, our Gal and a Grill columnist. She writes the Sunday Dinner column in the Raleigh News & Observer, and it’s been nominated as Best Newspaper Food Column in the Association of Food Journalists’  national competition. We’ll know in October when we meet how she placed against Rob Kasper, of [...]

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By Debbie Moose Columnist   Lamb is often overlooked as a candidate for the grill – that’s so unfair! It cooks quickly, has a great flavor when cooked over fire (think beautiful Greek island) and will please the red-meat lovers in your crowd when you want a change from beef. While the price may deter [...]

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By Debbie Moose Columnist When I was a kid, for fhe whole week before Easter each year my father would walk around the house singing, “Eastertime is the time for eggs, and the time for eggs is Eastertime.” Perhaps this early childhood ode to the egg balanced out my mother’s distain for them – she [...]

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By Debbie Moose Columnist   I’ve been dancing around my house singing that holiday song, It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. No, I’m not smoking a Christmas tree, nor did I find a cache of leftover spiked wassail. It’s March Madness!       The squeak of the sneaker, the bounce of the ball, the [...]

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