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...19th century, the culinary technique was well established in the American South, and because pigs were prevalent in the region, pork became the primary meat at barbecues. Corn bread emerged as the side dish of choice, owing largely to the fact that in humid Southern climates, corn grew better than wheat (which was prone to fungal infections). Barbecue allowed an abundance of food to be cooked at once and quickly became the go-to menu item for large gatherings like church festivals and neighborhood picnics...
...Ideal viewing conditions, as it turns out. I grew fond of the titular characters, in particular Kate, who seemed to stand like a colossus over their Pennsylvania tract home, constantly corralling and cajoling her uncountable - and, to the layperson, indistinguishable - children into doing relatively simple things, each of which became a hellish exercise in the improbable simply because of the logistics. Sixteen little shoes had to be found and tied before the family could even leave the house. That they weren't a pack of barefoot shut-ins was a testament to Kate's indomitable will...
...drawing about 1,000 or so curious onlookers to the site and its inevitable Twitter feed, where followers speculated about whether Zack16 was a bizarre new Metamorphosis-meets-My So-Called Life scripted dramedy or an ad for something. After a few reporters picked up on it, the buzz grew, and it was revealed to be the latter. Specifically, it's an online campaign for Procter & Gamble's Tampax...
...article included a disparaging remark: "Nobody expects you to make it to Princeton when you come from a public-housing project." I grew up in the 1960s in a public-housing project in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although I did my graduate work at Georgetown, and not Princeton, several of the kids in our project did go on to Ivy League colleges. A lot of kids who grow up rich never learn to develop their minds or work as hard as the "underprivileged" kids. Lisa Beth Durham, Ollon, Switzerland...
Though I do not eat much beef, I love Kate Pickert's article about cow-pooling [June 15]. I grew up on a farm in Arkansas where my sister and I stood on the fence and waved goodbye as the cows were loaded onto the truck to be taken to market, and where my dad once made me and my friends get up at 6 a.m. after a sleepover and dig potatoes. My kids have been growing up in the suburbs, not knowing where food comes from. Now we are growing vegetables in the backyard, and they are helping debone...