Guns, firecrackers and dynamite. Also home built muzzleloaders. Anything that went "BOOM". It is a wonder we did not blow
ourselves up. (more)

Our Readers Write:

We've just added a new section to the FTW website of our readers comments, vignettes & articles sent in response to each issue of the "Winterline Journal". Seemed a shame to keep them just to ourselves!
2003 Issues: MARCH - MAY

Are any of you superb cooks or food connoisseurs? We're hoping our readers enjoy great food as much as we do. After all, don't each of us crave Indian & Pakistani cuisine from time to time?

PLEASE share your favorite dishes with us, especially if the ingredients are generally available and the recipes easy to make! (more)

Recipe Exchange:
Mamma's Hot Dish
By Frank Cornelius

Kulfi —Indian Nutty Ice Cream
from the Greenway to Healthy Living Cookbook

Cultural Connections:
Bridging The Divide - India & Pakistan
from Stan Brush

At times, we may touch on the sensitive issue of political and/or religious loyalties. The following email discussion between one of our FTW readers and my father Stan Brush is such a discussion: (more)

Movie Review: Bend It Like Beckham

Bill and I thoroughly enjoyed this lively, heart-warming, British film about a sweet teenage girl, Jess (Parminder Nagra), who has a passion and talent for soccer and idolizes David Beckham, the British soccer star for whom the movie is titled. (more)

Poets Among Us

Poets -- observers of inner & outer landscapes -- paint picturesque phrases, assemble sharp or sweet sentiment mosaics, craft collages of odd, everyday & poignant moments.

Step into an arresting terrain. Savor the wordcraft, both silently and aloud -- the difference may surprise you. Definitely a treat!

Afternoon in Bengal
by Sylvia W. Staub

Food Adventures:
Fond Recollections of
Our Not So Humble Servants in India
By Margaret Deefholts

In this issue we're sharing Margaret Deefholts' humorous tribute to two temperamental, but accomplished, cooks from her childhood. As she says, " ...thought I'd spin a yarn about our domestic cooks whose culinary wizardry was astounding, given that they worked in kitchens equipped with only a basic chula (coal fired clay stove) and a crudely fashioned metal 'box' oven." (more)

Reader Reviews of Farewell the Winterline,
Memories of a Boyhood in India

Our diverse readers all come to the same conclusion when it comes to this memoir about growing up in India in pre World War II era India. (more)

Tidbits & Snippets

Teeny tales, flashbacks & vignettes
....worthy of a chuckle, a tear or a sigh

ONLY in INDIA...
by Art Sanford
(more)