Spätzle is a delicious German dish of tiny noodles or dumplings. Before the invention and use of mechanical devices to make these noodles, they were shaped by hand or spoon, and the results resembled Spätzen, the German word for sparrows. Enhanced with fresh herbs, spätzle makes a delicious accompaniment to any pork, sausage or chicken. Read more

In the corner of my dad’s closet sat a shotgun that never went anywhere. While we went quail hunting almost every weekend, that gun never made the trip. I didn’t understand until several years later how special those hunts were. Read more