Tag: Ozette

Velveeta and Wonder Bread: Cooking at Ozette, the Pompeii of America

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"I’d like to be able to say that something mystical drew me through the Olympic National Forest to Ozette. Such as a spiritual connection to Celtic tree gods. Or a quest, inspired by medieval pilgrims hiking 500 miles to Santiago de Compostela. But no,it was an act of God that brought me there as a…

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Doing What’s Necessary: The Logical Outcome of Haute Cuisine, or, An Extremely Brief Meditation on the History of Privies and Toilets

Categories Africa, Burkina Faso, Cooking, Food writing, France, Oral History, Photography4 Comments on Doing What’s Necessary: The Logical Outcome of Haute Cuisine, or, An Extremely Brief Meditation on the History of Privies and Toilets

I came face to face with the truth about outhouses on my first day in my Peace Corps village. Not that I’d never seen (or used) an outhouse before; I became intimately acquainted with the concept during the summer I worked as the assistant cook on an archaeological dig in Ozette, Washington. There, the pit…

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Goodbye to a Dear Friend

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This post is dedicated to my childhood friend, Meli Duran-Kirkpatrick, who died early in the morning on May 11, 2009. I lost a very old friend yesterday, one who wasn't all that old, not really. Meli and I grew up together, and together we went through Campfire Girls, junior high and high school, college, and…

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