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Monday, June 9, 2008
Scorching cuisine
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What to serve for dinner on a night like this? Especially if the kitchen is without air conditioning?

You can always cut up some tomatoes, toss them with salt, garlic and basil, boil some pasta , add some parm. But now you're eating HOT food in a hot setting.

Growing up without air conditioning in the swamp that is D.C., our family often had coffee milkshakes on pea-soup nights like this one.

Now, that we're older, a vodka and tonic (or gin and tonic or rum and tonic) served with copious amounts of lime seems particularly inviting.

Or, you could just head to the local tavern where the a.c. is blasting, there are 17 great beers on tap, and the burgers are good. The only thing missing to make the evening perfect would be the Phillies on the flat screen given they they're as scorching as the weather. 

Posted by Karen Heller @ 5:22 PM  Permalink | 1 comment
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Posted 08:35 AM, 06/10/2008
KarenA
Well tonight when you head to the local tavern for a burger and a beer, our Fightin' Phils will be on the big screen to cheer in between bites and sips. Go Phils!!
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About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.

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