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Sally Ketchum: In The Kitchen

August 11, 2008

Firefighters douse TC kitchen blaze

FROM STAFF REPORTS The Record Eagle Tue Aug 12, 2008, 09:33 AM EDT

TRAVERSE CITY -- Fire crews extinguished a weekend kitchen fire in Traverse City.

Fire crews with the Traverse City Fire Department went to a house at 1018 Washington St. at about 8 p.m. Saturday.

A neighbor heard smoke alarms in the house, looked through a window, noticed a fire in the kitchen and called 911.

Fire crews were on scene within three minutes of the call. They forced the front door open and put out the fire, which was caused by a cutting board left on a stove burner in the kitchen.

Significant damage was prevented by the quick response, Chief Jim Tuller said.

"(Within) five to 10 minutes the whole kitchen would have been on fire," he said. "It was climbing the cabinets."

No one was injured.

Sally Ketchum: In The Kitchen

In the Kitchen: A reflection of decor

A woman's kitchen (or a man's!) is a highly individual room. This is clear when one considers arrangement, decor, equipment and, especially, size (usually dictated by circumstances), right down to the calendar on the wall, whether a free real estate token, Snoopy comics, English roses or sports greats.
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In the Kitchen: Spring, Jefferson, E.E., me

Dear readers, you'll have to forgive me if I wax poetic, even a little sentimental, because I have a terminal case of spring fever. In a poetic moment, I feel earth spontaneously giving up spring to me. Oh, I have other reasons, too -- like a soup recipe and a love letter from a man in Interlochen.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, April 13
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In the Kitchen: Here's to wonderful readers

Writers like to be read. Journalists love readers and appreciate feedback -- even negative feedback, because it means that someone is reading their "cherished" words. I guess it is something like publicity; you know, the politicians say that even bad publicity is publicity and that's good. Over the years, I've had such a variety of mail and e-mail that it's impossible to anticipate what's next.
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In the Kitchen: Start steak with doodles

Doodling is good. Doodle experts say that doodling keeps our minds from drifting off the subject at hand. But, beware! If we try turn our doodles into art, then doodling is a distraction. For serious writing -- school, business or love letters -- I am a huge proponent of "prewriting," warming up to write in various ways. Doodling is one of those ways. I'm going to push this technique today; I'm going to start with a kitchen doodle, see where it goes and aim to end with Alphabet Soup with Doodles.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, March 16
Updated Mar 16, 2009 7:25 am 1 Photo
In the Kitchen: Woes of a week

Country living is usually serene, at least in magazines. But serenity fled our country kitchen last week. Consider the pancake problem: The local country store doesn't carry a good brand of pancake syrup. I shouldn't complain, but He-Who-Must-Be-Fed likes certain elements of his life to stay the same.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, March 02
Updated Mar 2, 2009 9:50 am 1 Photo
Sunday, February 15, 2009
In the Kitchen: Pork Pie only thrilled half

Ladies, are the roses wilted yet? Your Valentine roses? (Of course, we know that you gentlemen readers are off to work, shorts unseen, but covered with little red hearts to warm you.) But, ladies -- surely roses arrived Saturday, or chocolates. I, of course, wore my rubies and pearls all weekend, as I wear my emerald earrings at Christmas. He-Who-Must-Be-Fed loves them -- for two reasons.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, February 16
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
In the Kitchen: Across culinary curriculum

Happy Groundhog Day! I don't know whether that puppy is seeing his shadow in your yard or not, but as to the question, "Are we northerners tough enough to get through more winter?" The answer has got to be: "Yes, we can!" That settled, after watching some TV panels discussing education, I felt the old teacher in me rising.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, February 02
Updated Feb 2, 2009 9:47 am 1 Photo
Sunday, January 18, 2009
In the Kitchen: More than manners

Today, America observes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1929 birthday, and today I think of my first experience meeting a black person, a steward in the dining car of one of America's great railroad lines, The Great Northern.
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Anonymous The Record Eagle Mon, January 19
Updated Jan 19, 2009 9:41 am 1 Photo
Sunday, January 4, 2009
In the Kitchen: New kitchen strategies

For more than 10 years, I've written New Year's resolutions that relate to cooking and kitchen in the year's first column. This year, because I am not only trying to take leave from bad habits, but also be a better food and kitchen manager, I have a long list, but I'll keep my resolutions to 10 and report what else is happening in this cottage home of ours.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, January 05
Updated Jan 5, 2009 9:35 am 1 Photo
Sunday, December 21, 2008
In the Kitchen: Two hopping tales

These are two different tales, but they have similar settings -- crowded stores, big bargains, accidents and endings. Therein lies the tale, a message: The ends are far different. The first story you know -- a Wal-mart store employee opening the doors is trampled to death by frenzied shoppers seeking bargains. The second one involves people's reactions.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, December 22
Updated Dec 22, 2008 10:01 am 1 Photo
Sunday, December 7, 2008
In the Kitchen: Suspect cookie exchanges

Cookie exchanges might bring people together, but I've got to say I'm suspicious, if not cynical, about these gatherings now. Some years back the ladies of our subdivision in Williamsburg, mostly working women, attended an evening cookie exchange. First, it was disastrous because each woman was really too busy with her own family to give up an evening during the holiday season.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, December 08
Updated Dec 8, 2008 9:40 am 1 Photo
Sunday, November 2, 2008
In the Kitchen: Eating through lazy days

In our family routine, we sometimes have truly lazy days, maybe unplanned or traditional, like New Year's Day. Sometimes we are just too tired to dig into a new day after we've finished a doing the taxes or blowing 8 inches of snow off the long drive. As the years pass, we find we are having more lazy days. Thus, the question is, how are we going to eat when we aren't going to do anything -- like cooking?
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, November 03
Updated Nov 3, 2008 9:43 am 1 Photo
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sally Ketchum: Soothing mind, body, soul

More wordplay: When we say the word, "soothe," we can draw it out as when we say, "ooze." Then we end the word, "soothe" with a little puff that blows out some of our worries and misery. As a food writer, I'm supposed to know about food and drink. Both -- like most things -- can be for good, sustenance and pleasure, or the evil, indulgence and ruin of health.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, October 20
Updated Oct 20, 2008 9:46 am 1 Photo
Sunday, October 5, 2008
In the Kitchen: Shaping food attitudes

Hunting for interesting food subjects, I thought of how my father and brother ate, and also how my mother, who fed dad, Dick, and me, approached food. Young and uncritical then, I just ate. Actually, as mother cooked up various meals of suspicious quality, she not only fed my dad and brother, but also shaped their attitudes and preferences about food.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, October 06
Updated Oct 6, 2008 9:55 am 1 Photo
Friday, September 26, 2008
In the Kitchen: Best, worst of mealtimes

While I'm thinking of the coming winter meals -- those soups made with real soup bones, gravy-smothered pot roasts, and stews with dumplings -- I think of the "ends" of meals, too, the afterglow or the disappointments, fortuitous or dismal closures.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Fri, September 26
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
In the Kitchen: Planning dinner around school

Back to school also means hectic days with different schedules for different kids. We are so busy nowadays, and also, it seems more kids are determined "to do it all," and kids doing all is mighty hard on the parents, especially working mothers. Fatigue after a hard day can leave even the most creative, brainiest of cooks left with that question, "What can I fix for dinner?"
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, September 08
Updated Sep 8, 2008 9:45 am 1 Photo
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Hands On: Restaurant owner opens up kitchen for demos

Chef Gio, of Gio's Trattoria Grill, is more than happy to welcome visitors into his new state of the art kitchen. In fact, he will even share recipes and cooking tips with interested food-lovers.
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By LISA PERKINS The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, August 25
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In the Kitchen: Do I dare eat a peach?

If Shakespeare wasn't thinking of peaches when he said, "the ripest fruit falls first," James Whitcomb Riley nailed the elusive spirit of the fruit when he wrote, "The ripest peach is the highest on the tree." But, it is T.S. Eliot that said it all with his middle age, yearning, Prufrock pondering, "Do I dare to eat a peach?"
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, August 25
Updated Aug 25, 2008 9:55 am 1 Photo
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In the Kitchen: Good, bad & pretend cooks

I got to thinking about home cooks the other day. It occurred to me that there are good cooks who know they cook well and good cooks that don't know it. Likewise, there are bad cooks who think they cook well, but also bad cooks that admit they can't cook well. Further, some folks don't cook at all!
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BY SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, August 11
Updated Aug 11, 2008 9:50 am 1 Photo
Sunday, July 27, 2008
In the Kitchen: The truth about chard

How can one not like chard? Beautiful, enticing chard, and now in rainbow colors? Magical chard ... watching the half bushel of chard simmering down to a few cups of a spinach look-alike vegetable, only begging for a spoonful of butter, margarine or olive oil spread.
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BY SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, July 28
Updated Jul 28, 2008 9:51 am
Sunday, July 13, 2008
In the Kitchen: Add bling to your baking

Knowing that when my kids went back to school, the teachers' first assignments would center around, "What I did this summer," I always tried to give my children exciting and educational experiences to report. But my ploy never worked, in fact, it usually backfired.
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BY SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, July 14
Updated Jul 14, 2008 9:50 am 1 Photo
Sunday, June 29, 2008
In the Kitchen: Potluck dishes have stories

Good luck, bad luck, in an American summer, it's often potluck. We hear "potluck" and a long table laden with slow cookers and salads comes to mind. It's funny, isn't it? Common words do have specific meanings, but we hear them so often that the words are reduced to just a label. "Potluck?" Gotcha.
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By SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, June 30
Updated Jun 30, 2008 10:00 am 1 Photo
Monday, June 16, 2008
In the Kitchen: Love stories around food

One June some years ago, He-Who-Must-Be-Fed made reservations for dinner at Ellsworth's Tapawingo, asking for our favorite table because it was our anniversary. When the menu arrived, the line across the top read "Happy Anniversary Ketchums!" Happy memories flooded back at the unexpected message printed on such an impressive menu. Call it true love, call it looking at love through rose-colored classes or naïve romanticism, but that dinner is part of a love story.
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BY SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Mon, June 16
Jun 16, 2008 10:51 am 1 Photo
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
In the Kitchen: Cooking shows you care

The cook has concern, even worry, about target diners. Cooking for yourself is easiest. Then, you might, as He-Who-Must-Be-Fed does, spoon chili from can to mouth over the sink. In this case, "fine dining" then means the right brand, with beans. My friend Glenn says that good cooks cook best for those they love.
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BY SALLY KETCHUM The Record Eagle Copyright 2012 Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Tue, June 03
Jun 3, 2008 12:00 am 1 Photo

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