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One Of The Things That Happens In My House On The Holidays Is After Dessert, We Sit Down To A Very Ambitious Men-versus-women Game Of Trivial Pursuit. It's Brutal. And There's A Trophy.

I Was Not Such A Great Student, .. So, When I Graduated High School, I Went To Work Cooking. I Cooked A Little At Home, But Back Then, Cooking Wasn't Really A Profession That You Aspired To, Unless Your Family Was In The Business. I Looked At It As A Job. My First Job Was At Joe Allen's, And I Remember There Was A Photo Over The Bar Of The Triple Dead Heat From The 1944 Carter Handicap.

Do You Want To Make A Tamale With Peanut Butter And Jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody Will Eat It.

I Prefer Lump Charcoal Over Briquettes But I Do Use Both For Different Reasons And Different Recipes And Sometimes I Combine Them Both When I Really Want The Woodsy Aroma From The Lump Charcoal And Long, Even Heat From The Briquettes.

I Don't Have A Long Family History Of Good Cooks In My Family.