You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose, according to Dr. Seuss. Even the famous rhyming author might not have imagined the places you can go when a group of Corvette owners put the pedal to the metal and steer themselves ...
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — You could say the Grecian-style monument that’s been sitting on the grounds of The Tatnall School in Greenville for the last 54 years is a real gas. And you wouldn’t be wrong. Though you’d never know by looking at it, the structure was a gas station in downtown Wilmington during the 1920s. Today, the former roadside attraction is much more than a curious relic of a bygone era. It’s extremely rare. The structure, inspired by the classic Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece, is possibly the only service station of about 50 built by and ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A new proposal moving through Congress seeks to designate Route 66, the highway that connected Chicago to Los Angeles and was once an economic driver for small towns across a post-World War II United States, as a National Historic Trail. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Jim Inhofe announced this week the introduction of a bipartisan bill that would amend the National Trails System Act and include Route 66 in an effort to help revitalize cities and small towns that sit along the historic corridor. The plan comes as cities and towns where the once busy Route 66 ...
“I started, like my dad, as a young kid mopping floors,” says Richard Ecklof recalling his early years at Ecklof Bakery. “After high school, I started working in production.” The tradition of baking had been in the Ecklof Family for at least two generations before Richard became ...
This classic rendition of chicken soup starts the old- fashioned way, by making a from-scratch broth. But instead of using a whole chicken we turned to meaty chicken thighs, which kept things easier; they also added intense, meaty flavor to the broth. To cut down on greasiness, we removed the skin after browning and before letting the thighs simmer along with the chopped and sauteed onion and bay leaves. Since most people prefer white meat in their chicken soup, we simply poached two boneless, skinless chicken breasts in the simmering broth, removing them when tender to add to the ...
Beef short ribs are a prime example of how the precise control of time and temperature afforded by sous vide cooking can affect a piece of meat. Short ribs are a tougher cut, with a good amount of collagen and intramuscular fat so they are traditionally braised to a fall-apart texture. But with sous vide, you can achieve short ribs that have a texture similar to a medium-rare steak or you can deliver a more traditional flaky, braised texture—or land almost anywhere in between. For this recipe, we were looking for a fall-apart tender, pot roast-style texture, so we decided on a ...
