I’ve enjoyed spending these weeks with you focused on sound Biblical hermeneutics. Thank you for indulging me. Today we will finish this particular journey. Now that you’ve developed your exegetical outline, and the exegetical “big picture” of the passage you’re…

Carey Jones, the Senior Managing Editor of Serious Eats, wrote in her blog (August 2012): “When a Cheesecake Factory moved into my suburban California hometown at the end of my high school years, there was one thing about it that…

Chef Marc Murphy just published his debut cookbook, Season with Authority: Confident Home Cooking. Part worldly epicure, part laid-back surfer, Marc fell in love with French and Italian cuisine during a childhood spent living throughout Europe (his dad was a “globetrotting…

I had intended for this to be a 12-part series, so I suppose that it’s about time for me to start wrapping it up. The moment has come to start positioning all the ingredients just right so that we can…

You all have been so gracious to hang in there with me for this long blog series. Just a few more entries to go, and then we’ll take up some new themes. Could I interest you in a Himalayan salt…

When it comes to good cooking, the University of Maryland ranked lemon, soy sauce, and Dijon mustard as their top-three “most underrated ingredients.” But I found this comment on the website called Serious Eats: “The most underrated ingredients I would…

  Greetings from Martha’s Vineyard! Please indulge a temporary break in the hermeneutics blog series. We’ve delighted in beautiful New England weather and loads of fun with Joshua’s cousins, as well as the special blessing of celebrating Eileen’s parents’ 60th…

Paula Deen is an expert on fried chicken. As a bona fide, down-home, down-South chef, she can also teach you how to peel a shrimp – and how to make sweet potato balls without getting marshmallow all over your hands.…

In keeping with the cooking theme of this blog series on basic hermeneutics, I consulted a professional chef about how to write a professional recipe. Here is part of the answer: “Spell out everything (tablespoons, ounces, etc.) … If the…

Today I’ll take a break from my “Serve It Up” blog series. A paraprosdokian (from the Greek “beyond” + “expectation”) is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a statement is unexpected. It’s a rhetorical term used…