With potatoes and herbs! There are plenty of things across the waves to discuss, but there are no tides to speak of here a few miles from the Big Water. But coastal Florida is awash in King Tides. Tomorrow are going to be the biggest of this short cycle, but the experts on the flat […]

Photos: Farrah Skeiky/For The Washington Post. Collage: Vic Socotra. Morning! Yesterday it was a mosh pit beneath the Washington Monument. This morning it is runners moving through the capital and across the Potomac. Different reasons for getting out there, different footwear, and a remarkable amount of energy expended before some of us have reached the […]

Mit bayerischem Schmorbraten Bavarian Pot Roast The discussion this morning promptly headed for Germany. News reports described a devastating fire at the Eagle’s Nest—the Kehlsteinhaus, high in the Bavarian Alps above Berchtesgaden. The blaze began Friday night. Authorities arrested a 33-year-old German man on suspicion of arson; prosecutors reported signs of mental illness. The investigation […]

Morning! Deirdre here, attempting to capture the opening of a football-cooking Saturday. Vic and Holly’s Michigan Wolverines face the sixth-ranked Indiana Hoosiers at noon in Ann Arbor. That should supply sufficient excitement for one Conference Room. Representative Ilhan Omar is also facing a federal investigation concerning her immigration history. She denies wrongdoing. The claims about […]

We just received a splendid copy of the third edition of the classic community cookbook Pow Wow Chow. Amazon brought it to the Galley. The political baggage arrived under its own power. First published in 1984 by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma, the book presents recipes from families associated with the Cherokee, […]

Vic Socotra | Cooking for a Crowd We need to speak honestly for a change. Our Boomers never walked beneath this particular awning at Zingerman’s Delicatessen at 522 Detroit Street in Ann Arbor. Holly and Vic went to school there and can claim time under the one erected in the 1930s, but the successor that […]

Perfect for a shift change, or a comforting Fall luncheon! And easy to prepare once you know how many of the stuffed breasts to pull out of the freezer to thaw overnight. Dont except any joking around- this is about chickens and nutrition, nothing else. Everyone gets a breast! ANd there could be a ceasefire […]

Legal sent Fast Eddie over to monitor the afternoon session since there was the possibility that sex, age, experience and faulty assumptions could be presented as breaking news in the midst of all the other stuff. This is from VIc’s Stuff, or what we should call “VICSTUFF” for short, since he and Holly and three […]

There are fewer than two weeks remaining before the midterm elections, and the national conversation seems to have taken a peculiar turn toward the distant past. We have allegations involving childhood events from decades ago, elderly mothers being drawn into political arguments, and another round of revelations concerning O.J. Simpson, who has been dead for […]

The Afternoon Watch-Section Special There was a time when every church basement in the Upper Midwest had a folding table groaning under the weight of casseroles. The Navy had much the same arrangement, except we called it the mess deck and steam tables, and the people arriving for supper had generally been working odd hours […]