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Sue's Views: Disneyland
Posted @ 08:43PM on 04/30/2012 by Susan - Out And About
Sue's Views • By Sue Piper • No matter how many times I go to Disneyland, it’s always the same “magic kingdom” I fell in love with on my first visit. When my parents announced to my brothers and me that our 1956 summer vacation would take us to Anaheim, where Disneyland had opened just the year before, I was filled with joyful anticipation. -
Sue's Views - The Rainier Bridge, connector and jewel on the river
Posted @ 01:42PM on 02/24/2012 by Susan - Out And About
By Sue Piper • I enjoy crossing the Rainier Bridge. Its design and river view is appealing, visually. But I also see it as a symbolic “connector” in my own life and between all our communities. Most people who’ve lived around here for any length of time have their own Rainier Bridge memories. -
Sue's Views: Musings, miracles, magic and food
Posted @ 01:57PM on 01/15/2012 by Susan - Viewpoints
By Sue Piper • It’s been about 25 years, but I still vividly recall the moment I first made mayonnaise. It happened while I was following the recipe assigned for my dish to take to a friend’s “gourmet cooking club” Ned and I filled in for, one Fourth of July. Voila! This is mayonnaise? Taking it for granted all my life, I had never known that it is just eggs, oil and lemon juice, transformed in a blender-instant. Pure simplicity. Pure elegance. I was totally amazed. The same sort of thing happened while assisting Paul “Man in the Kitchen” Thompson recently when he made pasta for this month’s column. Pasta is, as it turns out, merely bread dough, transformed. -
Sue's Views: Traditions, timing and tutti fruitti
Posted @ 08:15PM on 12/15/2000 by Susan - ViewpointsIt’s always tricky to plan the content for Columbia River Reader’s December issue. With our publication period running from the 15th of the month, Christmas and New Year’s fall right in the middle of the time span and includes two weeks after the holidays. We usually end up with something of a “fruit basket upset” issue.
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SUE'S VIEWS: Running on Empty
Posted @ 02:56PM on 05/15/2008 by Perry - ViewpointsAfter visiting my friend Victoria Findlay (owner of Bob the Dog) last month, we had breakfast together in downtown Corvallis on my way out of town and her way to work. As we finished our pancakes, Victoria realized she’d forgotten the banana and apple she meant to bring from home for lunch that day. She started to head back home to get them, until we stopped and calculated the cost. The round trip would take a few minutes and burn about $1.00 worth of gas, we figured, which was about what the fruit itself cost. Being a wise woman, Victoria decided to just stop at the grocery co-op near her office and buy “replacement fruit” and save the “home fruit” to eat later.
