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With the Vietnam War not going well, Don decided to join the Marine Corps. Don had graduated high school in Long Island, New York, when his father accepted a position at the Red Stone Arsenal.

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He was from New York and had lived in various places, including Europe when his father worked for Radio Free Europe. Our backgrounds were completely different. I met my husband Don when he was attending Auburn University. Although I lived away for almost eight years after marrying, my heart will always treasure the dishes of the southland. The first issue was about my mother and grandmother being outstanding southern cooks. I went home to decide quickly what to call the new column and assemble recipes for the first issue. We decided I would write a weekly food column and features.

As Jayson and I talked, he wanted to know about my experience.

Growing up in Opelika, I remember going in the store many times as a child and later in high school. The office at that time was in the former Woolworth’s space. I called Charles, who told me to go see Jayson Hill at the office and tell him he said to hire me. I knew Charles and Ann for years, and they were familiar with my work. The Rhodes told me to call Charles Whatley about the paper. During that time, I also wrote a weekly food column called Southern Gourmet. I had been a newspaper lifestyle, food and entertainment editor for 15 years. Although I was writing for a magazine, I thought it would be interesting to write for a newspaper again. I was attending a neighborhood coffee when I heard Jane and Calvin Rhodes talking about a group of Opelikans who were starting a newspaper. The best part has always been sitting in a feature cook’s home listening to their family’s traditions and history in gathering together to celebrate good times at the table. If you like, rim your martini glass with some crushed Fruit Loops before pouring in your cocktail.As I look back over the past 15 years of my food column being in The Observer, starting with the first issue, I am reminded of many wonderful cooks who have shared their recipes, as well as spending busy days looking through my own recipe files. Splash of cream/half & half/milk to tasteĬombine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake it up (oooh-oooh)! As a last resort I tried adding some cherry fruit juice I had in the fridge and then…Īhhhhhhhh!!! If Toucan Sam was a boozer, this would be his drink of choice. It didn’t taste at all like Fruit Loops and had that nasty cheap vodka burn. WHY do things smell so good and then taste like CRAP?! Coffee, smelly markers, Loopy vodka. I poured a shot of vodka and a splash of cream into my cocktail shaker with some ice, gave it a quick shake and then went in for the taste test. Mix the vodka with some of the heavy cream I have left from yesterday’s chocolate mousse cake and I should have a drink that tastes just like the leftover milk from a bowl of Fruit Loops. This is going to be so easy, I thought to myself.

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I cracked it open and the smell of one of my favorite kiddie cereals wafted out. It’s a rainy day today – perfect for staying in an experimenting with my pretty bottle of vodka. Vodka that tastes like Fruit Loops?! Gimmie, gimmie!!! I was wandering up and down the vodka aisle at the liquor store while my boyfriend changed his mind for the millionth time about what beer he was going to buy and there it was – purple cap, blue, yellow, orange, pink and purple rings and that name – Loopy. The most recent thing to catch my eye was Three Olives Loopy. Slap some colorful artwork or something shiny on a product and I am drawn to it like a kid with ADD.

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