Dan’s Blurbs, Ruminations, and Esoterica*
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*(Esoterica [Noun]: Secrets known only to an initiated minority)

Published in Pleasant Living Magazine

Sunderland – The Story of our Creek Charcoal and How to Make It On Becoming an Ethno-Gastronomist Country Cheese – A Primer Ghost Ship White Sweet Potatoes Blow-Toads Going Bananas in Virginia With a picture of Dan naked in the hot tub Wreck of the Old 97 Shmaltz The Great Carolina BBQ Tour Spring Tonic: Cress & Asparagus Pop Bottles Country Ham Gertrude & Maggie Moo Recipes – Cold Cucumber Soup Soda Cracker Pie & Crab Cakes Riverisms Ice Cream Basics Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Wolves The Coffee that Won the West Turkey Basics Brown Beans Plus Anasazi Addendum Ain’t That Weird? Unusual foods Off to the Races Mushroom Basics Oyster Basics Pinetree – New Orleans Connection & Gumbo Urbanna House Tour ’08 - Bonus High Fructose Corn Syrup Summer Salads The Wolfe Trapp Barbecue 101 Part IV-B: Seasoning Methods Barbecue 101 Part IV-A: Seasoning Praise the Lard & Pass the Scrapple Storied Desserts USS Remlik & the Medal of Honor The Great Cornbread Conundrum and Reinventing the Hoecake Barbecue 101 Part III: The Meat Barbecue 101 Part II: The Fuel Barbecue 101 Part I: The Pit The Cremation of Ethyl A. Pigg Virginia Spirits W/ Recipes Savory Swimmers W/ Recipes The Magic of Buttermilk W/ Recipes Our Barbecue Heritage The Magic of Umami Bob Green’s Store Virginia Hospitality I Smell Smoke! Barbecue and Sex THE Virginia Sandwich

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