Author: Leslie

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Espadrilles and guns

I'm assum­ing we will inter­rupt our reg­u­lar­ly sched­uled pro­gram­ming for round-the-clock cov­er­age of the sit­u­a­tion in Zurich, name­ly, that tal­ent­ed actor Don John­son has been detained at the Swiss-Ger­man bor­der with a car full of $8 BILLION "in bonds, stocks and cred­it notes in his pos­ses­sion, stuffed in a suit­case". I'm both shocked and sad­dened by these events. One might say that Johnson's sto­ry has more holes than Swiss cheese. And yes, that's BILLION, with a B.

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Cantal

When talk­ing about cheese it is hard not to keep bring­ing up the French, but we must give cred­it where cred­it is due. Not only do the French have their offi­cial 360 cheeses but they also have an infi­nite num­ber of ideas about what to do with cheese. One of the best uses of cheese is in some­thing called alig­ot, a dish found in the Aubrac region of the Cevennes—there's some­thing about moun­tains that brings up cheese genius. Moun­tains are like the Sil­i­con Val­ley of the cheese world—home to entre­pre­neurs and vision­ar­ies, peo­ple not afraid to exper­i­ment. In any case, alig­ot fea­tures a nice moun­tain cheese called can­tal. Essen­tial­ly it's mashed pota­toes with cheese, but it tastes like so much more than that. Per­haps because the recipe calls for stir­ring the cheese into the pota­toes con­tin­u­ous­ly for 40 min­utes in the same direc­tion, so as not to break the strings of cheese. Alig­ot is great to eat on a cold day. It is not so great to eat right before climb­ing a very big hill on a bicycle.

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Cottage

The Cot­tage Cheese Song (sing to the tune of Every­thing In Its Right Place by Radio­head): small curd, large curd, medi­um curd. low fat, non fat, full fat. with pineap­ple, with ham­burg­er, with wheat germ It's a ver­sa­tile, hard-work­ing cheese that doesn't put on airs. Once rel­e­gat­ed to the "dieter's plate", it has steadi­ly gained wide­spread accep­tance as a dairy treat for peo­ple from all walks of life. Brands to watch: Knudsen's, Hori­zon Organ­ic, Light n' Live­ly. Bonus qual­i­ty: comes in high­ly portable plas­tic tubs and can be eat­en with a spoon or straw (small curd only).

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Rumblecheese

hey you guys: Who do you think would win in a rum­ble between Bi-Rite employ­ees and Rain­bow employ­ees? They could meet down at the docks. No knives or chains allowed. I think the Bi-Rite employ­ees might be stronger than Rain­bow employ­ees, because Bi-Rite employ­ees prob­a­bly eat more meat and have more mus­cle mass than Rain­bow employ­ees. I bet Bi-Rite employ­ees pan­ic eas­i­ly though. Rain­bow employ­ees would prob­a­bly coat their bod­ies with patchouli oil, which would make them slip­pery and hard to punch.

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cheese cheese lifestyle

Ceci n'est pas un queso

words that rhyme with que­so: 1. peso. 2. i can't think of any­thing else. words that sort of rhyme with que­so: 1. miso. tasty soup from japan. 2. cuo­mo. mario: for­mer gov­er­nor of new york. andrew: for­mer sec­re­tary of HUD. once con­sid­ered one of the most eli­gi­ble bach­e­lors inside the belt­way, andrew was some­times called "Sec­re­tary of Stud". he has since lost his looks. 3. duo­mo. a pret­ty renais­sancey type cathe­dral from old­en times in flo­rence, italy. being in italy makes you real­ize how pret­ty Catholi­cism can be. 4. brass‑o. house­hold prod­uct for mak­ing brass shiny. do not inhale! 5. ho-ho. host­ess dessert prod­uct made with choco­late cakey type com­po­nents. i think. 6. koko. cute goril­la who learned sign lan­guage and befriend­ed a grey kit­ten. the grey kit­ten got killed by a car, and koko had to sign things like "koko sad kit­ten go bye bye", which was sad. 7. lesotho. accord­ing to the CIA World Fact Book 2002, "an enclave of South Africa about the size of Mary­land". 8. gree­do. tried to kill Han Solo in that inter-galac­tic water­ing hole where they played the kook­ie music. i love that music! 9. momo. a rather bland vari­ety of Tibetan dumplings. bored now. L to the K A

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The name of the cheese

As a young­ster, I real­ly liked the book "I Am The Cheese" by Robert Cormi­er. I think it's time for a re-read. As I recall, "The Choco­late War", also by Robert Cormi­er, was pret­ty good too. Those books, along with "A Sep­a­rate Peace" (John Knowles), "Catch­er in the Rye" (Jerome David Salinger), and the major Hol­ly­wood movies "School Ties" (Bren­dan Fras­er) and "Dead Poets Soci­ety" (Robert Sean Leonard) made me so glad I nev­er had to attend an elite all boys prep school on the East Coast. Based on the above evi­dence, it just seems like those places were hotbeds of mis­ery that spe­cial­ized in pro­duc­ing teenage souls black­ened like lit­tle pieces of charred toast. Also the death rate at such schools seems to be alarm­ing­ly high. On the oth­er hand, the pop­u­lar tele­vi­sion pro­gram "The Facts of Life" and the nov­el "The Bell Jar" made it seem like elite girls schools on the East Coast were real­ly fun places where every­one roller-skat­ed around and made out with charis­mat­ic British poets. MY NAME IS: Leslie Kather­ine Albrecht

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International korner

In Asia, there is no cheese. lka

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Velvet revolution

When are we going to talk about Velvee­ta? I was just online vis­it­ing the Kraft Foods Inter­ac­tive Kitchen, and I noticed some real­ly cool recipes using Velvee­ta. Like one called "Gold­en Sauce". Also, Velvee­ta has oth­er uses, such as: my dad used a block of Velvee­ta to teach our dog, Pep­si, to sit & shake. And when are we going to talk about QUESO? Oh my god, there's some­thing called Cheese Fudge and you can make it with Velvee­ta. Things are look­ing up. lka