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Five Fun Food Facts on a Friday: October Edition
Happy Friday! Welcome to a new series on The Saucy Spork called "Five Fun Food Facts on a Friday". One Friday every month, I'll be sharing a variety of random facts about food to lift your spirits while you wrap up your week and slip blissfully into your well-earned 48 hours of freedom. Check out this month's fun facts below!
1. I've always had a healthy understanding that the Colonel's secret recipe with eleven herbs and spices was kept under wraps, but I didn't realize just how much. Before Harland Sanders died, he wrote down a full detail of the secret recipe and ...
A Life of Fantasy (Football)
Life is full of surprises, isn’t it? They come in many shapes and sizes and have the capacity to deliver all different types of news. My favorite surprises, though, come in the form of friendships. More than once in my relatively short history I’ve been able to look back and trace large parts of my life back to a single person. It’s pretty impressive how transformative a friend can be in our lives, especially considering the hundreds or thousands of people we come to know by name out of the eight billion of us on the planet. Nevertheless, I’d venture to guess that ...
Keep on Keeping on
Earlier this year--Tuesday, April 28th, to be exact--my good friend, Katherine Cox, saw a dream become reality when she placed a freshly minted copy of her book, Katie Fry Private Eye, on the shelves of the bookstore where she's worked for the past several years. Each day, she would arrive to work and be surrounded by books, which at times could feel like being among old friends, offering solitary comfort in their rich and imaginative pages, and other times it could feel like being surrounded by the competition, reminding her that shelves upon shelves of other people were ...
Sweet Home Carolina
August has been a bit of a complicated month for me. There has been as much cause for celebration as there has been for apprehension. I’ve been a bit tongue-tied by the goings-on of the month as is evidenced by the radio silence from my otherwise noisy keyboard. It’s not writer’s block, per se, but rather a flood of dissonant thoughts scattered across my neuropathways that are in constant competition for focus and attention. The best way I can describe it is to imagine standing in a field full of fireflies, where from a distance one can appreciate the beauty of the ...
Sweet Home Carolina Gallery
Old Friends & Arepas
For the past two weekends I have had the true pleasure of spending time with people I’ve known for well over twenty years. Being in the presence of someone who more or less knows your entire history can be a strange and comforting thing, especially for those of us who have landed in towns far from where we grew up. Thankfully, NYC is a place most folks don't need a ton of convincing to come visit and so while I do get mighty homesick from time to time, it's never too long before I have a familiar face flying in to stay with my wife and I for the weekend.
It can't ...
Checking the Pulse: Perspective and a Peptalk
We humans are a special bunch. We’ve got big ol’ brains stuffed into our big ol’ heads that are capable of doing big ol’ things. As I was driving through the Catskill Mountains this past weekend, I was in constant admiration of the impressive roadways and bridges we built onto the sides of mountains and across serious stretches of water. As new and innovative technologies and breakthroughs emerge at a rapid pace each year, there is seemingly nothing we can’t dream up and eventually create. To try to comprehend all of the changes that have occurred even during my ...
Financial Anxiety, Simmer Down
For this week’s blog post, I was flirting with the idea of phoning in an article and maybe writing a bit about hangover cures for the weary partier left to nurse their wounds after a night of rowdy revelry in celebration of our nation’s independence. After all, many of my July 5th’s in recent years have been dominated by increasingly severe hangovers (this getting older thing is a real drag) and so I’ve accrued some fairly useful information to share on the subject. Aspiring to ease the pain of the wounded, regardless of how self-inflicted the pain may be, is at ...
A Garden Grows in Brooklyn
Last summer, my wife and I moved out of our apartment and home of five years in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and relocated a few miles east to a neighborhood called Bushwick. At the time, this was a bit of a tragic event for us because we loved that apartment and the surrounding neighborhood dearly. The problem was, though, the landlords who also lived in the building were a duo of some of the most heinous assholes I have ever met and had the displeasure of having to interact with. For the sake of my blood pressure and the generally pleasant mood I am currently in, I will not ...
Pops, Put Simply
Happy Father's Day
Howdy Pops,
While I wish that I could see you today and make you a pile of the fried catfish featured on the site this week for Father's Day, it is a comfort knowing that in less than a week you and Mom will be up here for a visit! I have often said that I won the "familial lottery," and the older get and the more folks I meet, the more I know that it is true. Upon reflecting on the ever-increasing number of ways in which you have made marked impact on my life, here are the top twenty moments and memories from my childhood and beyond that I have ...
