This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on November 30, 2005 I’m writing this the morning after Thanksgiving, and I am still full. We had “the usual” – family standbys we wouldn’t dare replace, but with minor variations picked up over the years. The turkey is now brined and Mom’s bread stuffing features…

This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on November 16, 2005 Well, I guess I am doing my job as an educator – of palates, if not of minds. “I have never put squash in my mouth before,” one of my students told me Sunday at a class dinner for which I’d made…

This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on November 2, 2005 Africa is huge. Of course, I knew that before we left, but there is nothing like flying over it from top to bottom to make real what a map can only suggest. It took us more than 10 hours from the time…