R.I.P. Robert Goulet

For me, music came first. My mother is a musician and our house was always filled with tunes. Many of us grow up hating our parents' music. I did not. This is not to say I didn't develop my own…

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I Almost Forgot

Hey, it's my birthday.  Yay!  Now buy my book.

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Blind Pigeons Are Not Road Kill

Just like I love to freak out non-coal crackers by offering them scrapple, nothing blows their minds more than asking if they'd like a blind pigeon. A blind pigeon is a cabbage roll.  I believe…

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Bleenie (spell it any way you like)

Allow me to continue the food section of the Kerry Zukus Official Stalker Site Blog, for to understand a geographical area one must understand its cuisine, and THE FOURTH HOUSE most certainly does…

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May I Have the Last Pierogi?

Along with your gray meat, it is also incumbent upon you, as a good coal cracker host or hostess, to have some starches available for your guests. Might I suggest the classic pierogi? There are two…

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Scrapple: The Other Gray Meat

You can't eat like a coal cracker if you don't eat scrapple. What is scrapple? No one really knows for sure. It's like a trade secret, although more of the Spam variety rather than the Coca Cola…

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How to Eat Like a Coal Cracker

I just received a wonderful piece of fan mail (yes, I actually get fan mail – and not just from my mother). It was from a self-identified non-native who presently lives in what we affectionately…

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Of a Feather

Forget skateboarding, playing video games, or reading celebrity gossip. The new hot trend in America is birding. Yup, birding. I should know; the New York Times told me so. And my old pal Scott…

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Here’s the Weird Part …

OK, so the good news is that THE FOURTH HOUSE has sold many thousands of copies. Again, blessings to all who have helped make that happen. But here's the weird part: See, 99% of the people from my…

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Labor Month

I've been feeling guilty lately about the growing infrequency of my posts. But then again, perhaps it's a regionalism. As you probably know, I come from a blue-collar upbringing. People basically…

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