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Damian and Vickie Parker were living professional lives most Britons would envy, practicing corporate law in Bradford, England. Damian, though, had one curious hobby: He made traditional English meat pies and sausages at his friends' butcher shops on his days off. And what was once a weekend diversion soon became a full- fledged career for both of them.
We got bored one day with the 9-to-5 office job, so we came up with the idea of coming to America to do something completely different," Damian Parker said.
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Interestingly, like many foods of antiquity, the crust on pies was first added with a function in mind: Pies were born out of necessity, as a sort of utilitarian food - they were originally a vehicle in which to use up scraps of meat, innards or remnants of previous meals. In fact, according to modern etymology, the English word "pie" is based on the bird "magpie," making reference to the method in which the birds prepare their nests - using a large variety of collected objects as a base or filling. And humble pie, which was originally known as "umble pie," takes its name from the Old English word "umble," meaning, believe-it-or-not, deer innards. Apparently, it was customary to feed this to servants while the lord of the manner ate the actual venison. Eventually, because people thou...
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Sunday dinner a Kefalonian event
Family menus on Greek island include fish and meat pies, breads and salads
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Only a stage where a trio of blond CSUMB co-eds are comfortable singing Barry White's "Walrus of Love" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe" and a petite middle-aged man can improvise his own- dirtierversion of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" can be labeled the best. Bobby Vegas, the Brit's 10-yearveteran MC, offers a vast variety of songs to choose from Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays, some 5,000 all told, covering everything from Earth Wind & Fire to Third Eye Blind. Important note: That index also includes Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and Sir Mix-aLot's "Baby Got Back.
It's 5pm on a Thursday afternoon, and patrons circle the bar at Monterey's Crown & Anchor Pub. In a dark "Crown" sweatshirt and black shorts, server [Valerie Arveson] moves quickly on the floor, filling waters...
..., bouncing from the kitchen with curries and meat pies and fish 'n' chips. It's a brisk juggle of jo...
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LITTLE FALLS - The tale of Sweeney Todd -a crazed 18th-century barber who seeks revenge for wrongful imprisonment by killing his customers and grinding their bodies into meat pies - is a simple one.
Through lively song and choreographed dance, high school students hope to tell the story of "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," to sellout crowds Thursday to Saturday in the Passaic Valley High School auditorium.
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A 19th-century barber, unjustly exiled from London, exacts revenge against the evil judge who wronged him, resulting in the disappearance of notable townspeople - and the curious, sudden proliferation of some very tasty...
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Staff Writer
Sweeney Todd" started out life as a penny dreadful, a Victorian- era tabloid-type story about a barber who slit customers' throats and a woman who baked the victims into meat pies.
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pound ground chuck
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FOODIES SCOTT ACHERMAN AND DAN LONCARIC