Dear Vanguard ~

You are correct. I am older than everybody on the Board except Doctor Bill, and probably older than several mountains in a range near you.

Because I love to cook and to serve food to others, that part of my vocabulary expands to meet my interest. I read rather extensively in the culinary and gastronomic arts, which means that I come upon interesting "food words" more often than I come across, say, mechanical engineering words or cross-stitch words or diseases of the pancreas words. Hence, the number of posts from me concerning good things to chew and swallow.

I don't know enough of the "rules" on this board to know when I am violating some of them. For example, I have experienced people shouting "YART" at me, from time to time, without fully understanding it to be a reference to pre-masticated topics.

And I'm delighted that you're here.

The Old Padre