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My grandmother canned everything, and I'm sad I never got to learn from her. I already can a few things: tomato sauce and jelly, but there are so many other things I'd like to try! Corn, peaches...

Congrats, Hannah. I remember the day I walked out of my last exam in college. It was a like a 20-pound weigh was lifted off my shoulders!

Hope I'm not too late to this party.

I'm in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The original home of a few things you all know: R.J. Reynolds, Hanes underwear, Krispy Kreme and Wachovia. (And about 15 miles from Lexington, N.C., the home of Western N.C. barbecue).

His Thanksgiving turkey suggestion of cooking the bird in PIECES is brilliant.

And I had never made fish until I tried his basic recipe for salmon. Yum.

I CRAVED spam while I was pregnant. (The boy was born in July.) I guess being in the South pretty much screwed him when it comes to trying to avoid the whole "You might be a redneck if ... your mama fed you Spam in utero."

But Texas and N.C. bbq are so different! If it's one restaurant with lots of different kinds of bbq, no WONDER they can't get it right.

As for me? I'm heading Down East to the coast next week, and a stop at Wilbur's in Goldsboro is on the itinerary! (I'm a Western N.C. girl who married an Eastern N.C. boy, whose uncle has a bbq restaurant. They turned me.)

Mine is already a squash. That would hurt, too, much less the WATERmelon I'll have in a few short weeks. Cute chart, nonetheless!

I read this article and thought it was a sorry excuse for journalism. I also thought it was ridiculous and completely unscientific. Is this what all of the millions of dollars that these candidates are raising is going to? Sheesh.

I relish every word that woman says! I just finished "Garlic..." and was completely inspired. I love the fact that she wants to do all the cooking. Sounds like many of us - kitchen control freaks, no?!