Roscoe’s First Rule: There Are No Rules Only guidelines. Yes, we say never cook with water, because water has no taste, therefore it can’t make your food taste good. So maybe we start with a little water (for pasta or rice) and add Worcestershire, Cholula, and a bouillon cube or two, kinda like that parable [...]

They Were Already Dressed For It Cave Men liked summer best because they already had the right wardrobe. This was, of course, before anyone invented the wardrobe, or fashion, or even clothes. Actually, clothes were invented the first time Adam and Eve grabbed a fig leaf, but the Cave Man, especially, never called his loincloth [...]

What Did Cave Men Do? Mostly, Cave Men hung around the cave all day, until the Cave Woman got tired of it and started complaining (the first incidence of a woman nagging a man remains unrecorded, but it probably happened around this time). Time To Go Nagging is nagging, same then as it is now: [...]

Ingredients (to serve 10): Italian sausage (whatever kind you like: sweet or hot) 10 links, or about 2 1/2 lbs of a wheel 2 red onions 1 red pepper 1 cubanelle red pepper 1 cubanelle green pepper 2 or 3 (or 4) big cloves garlic (sliced thin or chopped) olive oil Worcestershire Cholula salt and [...]

Winters Were Brutal You think it was easy to keep a cave warm all winter when they hadn’t invented the furnace yet? Sure, Cave Dudes invented fire right away, they had to, but it was still a major pain to get one going because the match was a ways off (a couple of centuries, to [...]

Cave Men Were Romantic Though it’s not very well known, because sappy greeting cards hadn’t been invented yet. But Cave Dudes always brought flowers home to their Cave Babes. And they’d pick them themselves, because, of course, there were no Florists yet. Here’s a little known fact: one of the first businesses to open was, [...]

Oughtta Be A National Holiday Gotta Have Good Food Or at least the day after should be. Actually, that’s when you really need a day off, after you eat, drink, shout and smoke half the night you need about a day to recover. But no… Beer is mandatory, don’t even have to mention that. And [...]

It Happens All Over The World People celebrate New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in different ways: some party down and bring in the New Year and hardly remember it the next day. Some are a little more low key, choosing to spend the night, or the next day, with friends and/or family in [...]