Man, it got busy up in here all of the sudden.<\/p>\n
Bob Rafelson<\/a>. THR<\/a>. Other credits include the “Poodle Springs” TV movie (with James Caan as Marlowe, based on Robert Parker’s continuation of an unfinished Chandler novel), “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, and “The King of Marvin Gardens”.<\/p>\n The Saturday Movie Group watched “Five Easy Pieces” not too long ago. I think I echo the general consensus when I say that it was very much like “The Last Picture Show”: a good movie that none of us want to see again.<\/p>\n David Warner<\/a>, British actor. In case you were wondering, he’s the photographer who loses his head in “Omen”. Other credits<\/a> include “TRON”, “Time Bandits”, the “Hogfather” TV movie, and lots of genre stuff, including some appearances on spinoffs of a minor 1960s SF TV series.<\/p>\n Diana Kennedy<\/a>. She was well known (at least to me and I think to other people who follow food) as the woman who introduced true Mexican cooking to the US.<\/p>\n At a time when most Americans\u2019 concept of Mexican food was limited to tacos and enchiladas, Ms. Kennedy unfurled an ornate culinary tapestry, exploring the distinctly regional nature of Mexican cooking, defined, like the cuisines of Italy and China, by local geography, climate and ingredients.<\/a> …<\/p>\n In \u201cThe Tortilla Book\u201d (1975) and \u201cMy Mexico\u201d (1998), Ms. Kennedy continued the journey begun in \u201cThe Cuisines of Mexico,\u201d elaborating on her findings as she roamed the country in her pickup truck, quizzing local cooks, taking notes and developing, as a side project, an atlas of indigenous herbs and plants.<\/a> …<\/p>\n Ms. Kennedy spared no effort to track down information. She served an apprenticeship in a bakery before writing her tortilla book. She traveled dusty back roads by bus or in her truck, sleeping in the back, en route to remote villages in search of obscure recipes, questioning saleswomen at local markets or wangling invitations to home kitchens.<\/a> …<\/p>\n In 2010, she gave The Chicago Tribune a terse assessment of her work. \u201cI am tenacious,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I love to eat.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Johnny Egan<\/a>, coach of the Houston Rockets from 1972-1976. He was 129-152 overall during his tenure.<\/p>\n The Hartford, Connecticut native played for six NBA teams: Detroit Pistons (1961\u201363), New York Knicks (1963\u201365), Baltimore Bullets (1965\u201368), Los Angeles Lakers (1968\u201370) and San Diego\/Houston Rockets (1970\u201372). The guard played with the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 1970-71 season.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Melanie Rauscher<\/a>, who was on “Naked and Afraid”. She was 35, and the circumstances seem particularly sad.<\/p>\n Corey Kasun, a rep for the Prescott Police Department, confirmed to TMZ that the reality star was dog sitting in the city while the homeowners were out of town. Upon their return, they discovered Rauscher dead in their guest room, near several cans of dust cleaner containing compressed air.<\/a> Man, it got busy up in here all of the sudden. Bob Rafelson. THR. Other credits include the “Poodle Springs” TV movie (with James Caan as Marlowe, based on Robert Parker’s continuation of an unfinished Chandler novel), “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, and “The King of Marvin Gardens”. 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\n\u201cThe regional dishes of Sonora, or Jalisco, have practically nothing in common with those of Yucat\u00e1n and Campeche; neither have those of Nuevo Le\u00f3n with those of Chiapas and Michoac\u00e1n,\u201d she wrote in the book\u2019s first chapter. In Oaxaca, she explained, \u201ccertain chilies are grown and used that are found nowhere else in Mexico.\u201d<\/a>
\nThe Mexican food known to most Americans, she wrote, was a travesty: \u201ca crisp taco filled with ground meat heavily flavored with an all-purpose chili powder; a soggy tamal covered with a sauce that turns up on everything \u2014 too sweet and too overpoweringly onioned \u2014 a few fried beans and something else that looks and tastes like all the rest.\u201d This state of affairs she hoped to correct.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAlong the way, she clued readers in on the secrets of making wasp\u2019s nest salsa, roasting a whole ox or cleaning black iguana for a special Oaxac\u00e1n tamale.<\/a>
\n\u201cThere is always someone who wants to know how to clean an iguana, so why not?\u201d she told an interviewer for the journal Writing on the Edge in 2011. All three books were gathered in one volume in 2000 under the title \u201cThe Essential Cuisines of Mexico.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019m out to report what is disappearing,\u201d she told The Times in 2019. \u201cI drive over mountains, I sit with families, and I record.\u201d<\/a>
\nShe took a dim view of chefs and writers who did not do the same, and her criticism could be withering. \u201cThey\u2019ve not done the travel and the research that I\u2019ve done,\u201d she told Saveur. \u201cNone of them, not one. I have traveled this country, wandering \u2014 it\u2019s why I\u2019m not rich! \u2014 and taking time, and nobody else has done that. Nobody else has seen a certain chile at a certain stage in a market in Chilapa, and then gone back in six months and seen other chiles.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nIt remains unclear if Rauscher consumed the cans\u2019 contents.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"