Flavour Guy Barry Lazar reflects on his life and the Times
My pen in hand, my hat askew, / and the interviewee asks, who are you?
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Flavour Guy: Lessons from my life long teacher, brisket — that tough hombre
I have much to learn. The meat has much to tell.
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Flavour Guy: Fire, friends & food: the three basics of a great BBQ
Our theme is summer sights. What is a more beautiful summer sight than a BBQ? Of course, this is the Flavourguy’s rhetorical question.
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Flavour Guy: Chicken with the bitsy guy
Our kitchen is stocked with gizmos. A dozen hats hang in the hallway. When will I need a fireman’s helmet? It’s there, just in case.
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Flavour Guy: From Mom’s sour cream dip to my worldly yogurt
Mom never made a bad dish. If it wasn’t good, it never got to the table.
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Flavour Guy: Which came first: the chicken man or the egg man?
At the market there are no more live chicken men. Well, of course, the men and women at the market are alive, but real poultry purveyors are as rare as the milkman in a horse-drawn wagon.
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Flavour Guy: Let out the cat, peel an orange, and sell that house
No one is going to buy our house. The smells are too complex.
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Flavour Guy: Give the joy of overdoing it
The best gift I ever gave was a dinner for two.
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Flavour Guy: Distance casts a fog over remembrance, retellings
Autumn discomfits us. It is really two seasons in one.
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Flavour Guy: If the party leaders are chefs, who’s writing the menu?
A man walks into a restaurant. It features a buffet. There are several extended tables. Each is stacked with more food than he could have imagined.
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