Folks have often asked us - my hubby, Peter and I - about our "menu and meal planning".  Peter (aka "Chef Pierre") and I have found it's the only way to deal with crazy schedules and ensure that we eat (somewhat) regularly and healthily, stay on budget, and provide our palates with variety.  Let's face it ... every night out or eating take-in gets old ... as does cooking and eating the same home-cooked meals...

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With all the pots and pans I've scrubbed over the decades and with all the S.O.S pads that graced the soapdish over our kitchen sink for years, I never knew - but wondered ... when it occured to me to wonder about it - what the S.O.S stood for or the origin of the name for those scruffy little pads. Until today.  But first ... the back story. In San Francisco, in 1917, a salesman...

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