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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Food has always been a tasty topic to my mind, so to
speak. Can’t remember my first meal, but my mother
used to tell me that I obviously enjoyed eating.
I enjoy cooking, although I don’t do it often. I’m not
one of those guys who thinks that dumping a can of chili
con carne in a bag of Fritos passes for cooking. No, I’d
heat the chili first, and put the chips in a bowl. Come on,
let’s be civilized.
My family still recalls (likes to tell the story to em-
barrass me) of the time in Escondido, Calif. when I made
bread pudding. Jan was in cosmetology school, and the
kids and I were Home Alone. I had seen her make bread
pudding and figured it was a task I could handle. Plus I
hoped that she’d be surprised. She was.
I did almost everything right: Only left out one ingre-
dient. Oh, and it was hot -- you know, one of those Es-
condido 106-degree summer days -- so Old Milwaukee
was one of the ingredients that I used to keep cool. And
somehow I left out sugar from the pudding.
We tried for a couple days to sweeten the concoc-
tion. Used honey, sugar, molasses. Didn’t work. Ended
up dumping the stuff. It was my first and last bread pud-
ding excursion.
In the fourth grade at Kit Carson Elementary School
in San Diego, I about lost it one day during lunch. Be-
cause I was a mostly unconscious child, I thought that I
was being served cole slaw, a dish I enjoy. But when I
took a big bite, it turned out to be cold sauerkraut, a dish
I don’t enjoy. It was a mighty struggle to gag it down,
but I managed. However, I developed an aversion to sau-
erkraut that continues to this day.
As a struggling, Tenderfoot charter member of Na-
tional City Boy Scout Troop 899 I cooked fish. It was at
a summer camp in a remote, somewhat primitive area in
the eastern section of San Diego County. There was no
mess hall; each troop did its own cooking. I was sure that
I could prepare fish. Something went wrong.
When the Scoutmaster tried to eat his hunk of shriv-
eled “fish,” he said that it tasted like burned potato chips.
For some reason I was never on the cook schedule again.
When I was maybe 11 I decided to so some cooking
in the backyard of my parent’s home, where they al-
lowed me to live. Thought I’d rough it and heat a can of
pork and beans. Now, no one ever told me -- and you
might think that I should have known -- but it never
struck me that the can should be opened first. I just stuck
it in a fire I built and waited. Fortunately, I had wandered
off a short distance to admire my cactus garden when the
beans blew. Whew, I could have been marked for life. It
was kind of exciting though. However, my dad didn’t
appreciate the exploded beans along the back of the
house. Some people have no sense of humor.
As a young guy, I worked for a caterer in San Diego
for a time. After watching food prep in the company
kitchen I usually had pie and coffee for dinner. And dur-
ing a luau I was serving salads. Guy held out his plate,
and I dished up three different salads. He got a funny
look on his face and glared at me. I asked him if he
wanted some more Loma-Loma (tuna salad), but he grit-
ted his teeth, and said, “No, but I would like it if you
would remove what you just served off my thumb.” So I
did, but I was never asked to work another luau. I don’t
know why these situations turn out the way they do.
I’d tell you more, but I’m heading out for a dish of
bread pudding.
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
- Amy Vanderbilt -
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Foreign policy
From Kristine Strohl
Cave Junction
Ward Churchill, profes-
sor of ethics at University of
Colorado, recently wrote an
essay that has shocked the
media. It compares the vic-
tims of 9/11 to “Little
Eichmanns,” the monetary
strategist for Hitler’s Third
Reich.
With a firestorm rever-
berating across the conser-
vative press, Churchill has
repeatedly been called eve-
rything from traitor to terror-
ist, even though he was
pointing out extremely seri-
ous flaws in our interna-
tional policies; our incessant
need to control, inflict pain,
and run the politics of for-
eign countries under the
guise of democracy.
Our arrogance controls
our foreign policy, feeding
the fires of hatred toward us,
which leaves many baffled.
Or does it?
All too often, Ameri-
cans think of themselves as
the great providers/
protectors. True? Yet our
leaders have masqueraded
our true identity, performing
heinous acts in order to ex-
tend the powers of corporate
America. How will we con-
tinue to ignore/support these
atrocities?
As President Bush
preaches that we are envied
and hated because we are
free and “democratic,” he
never mentions our falla-
cious foreign policy, or our
ruthlessness, including tor-
ture and murders of hun-
dreds of thousands of inno-
cent people -- a shameful
history not exclusively Re-
publican.
America’s foreign pol-
icy is coming home to roost,
and we have to contend with
real nightmares.
So, are we going to suf-
fer the consequences of ter-
rorists or blowback? Who is
really responsible for 9/11?
Isn’t our motto, “Do
unto others as you would
have done to you?” Or is it,
“What goes around comes
around”?
‘Kerby warning’
From Jeff Christensen
Cave Junction
Kerby citizens should
be warned that they are
about to do business with an
untrustworthy entity: the
city of Cave Junction.
If someone tries to get
Kerby residents to connect
to Cave Junction water, they
should not walk, but run, in
the opposite direction.
I am one of six house-
holds south of Cave Junc-
tion that just received offi-
cial notice that our water
will be cut off on or before
May 1. With less than a
two-month warning, the city
will be removing a vital ser-
vice it has provided to this
residence nearly 30 years.
And even though we
have been paying an extra
$10 a month for this service,
the city says that it owes us
nothing because we live
outside the city limits. We
were not even offered so
much as a refund of the
original connection fee,
however much that was.
And we don’t know
how much that was because
Charles J. Polk, city re-
corder extraordinaire, is a
very busy man. So busy in
fact, that he doesn’t have
time to look up the records
that the original owners of
this property and the city
entered into when water first
was provided.
I requested those re-
cords from him personally
more than three months ago,
and have yet to see any-
thing. So, people should
think twice about doing any
kind of business with the
city of Cave Junction, as any
service it provides will be at
its convenience only.
Regarding the media, he
used an example of how
Dan Rather was held ac-
countable for putting for-
ward questionable informa-
tion. How many people
have lost their jobs because
of the questionable informa-
tion that took us to war?
Condi Rice got a promotion;
George Tenent got a medal.
Reid is correct when he
says that our nation’s history
is scattered with problems. It
seems that we have not
learned from past mistakes.
Our current administra-
tion has the unique distinc-
tion of repeating many of
the worst problems from the
last 230 years of American
history all at once.
‘Fascist administration’
From Josiah Dean
Cave Junction
I am compelled to re-
spond to William Reid’s
letter (“Illinois Valley
News,” March 2.) He was
responding to an earlier let-
ter (“I.V. News,” Feb. 23)
implying that the current
administration is fascist.
Reid attempted to show
Catherine Austin’s errors,
but chose not to dispute any
of her assertions. For each
of Austin’s claims, Reid
accepted the assertion and
either offered excuses of
why it was true, or simply
stated that the problem had
happened before.
After reading Reid’s
letter, I find myself con-
vinced that we have the
most fascist administration
in our nation’s history.
Reid pointed out that
our human rights and na-
tionalist hysteria are as bad
as they were leading into
World War II. Labor sup-
pression and cronyism are
the worst we’ve seen in
more than 80 years.
According to Reid, the
intrusion of religion into our
government has not been
this bad since George Wash-
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