![]() It’s so unlike everything else we love, so unique both in flavour and in the sticky way it feels in our mouths. My theory about cheese is that it is special to British palates because it’s so, well, completely weird. How does this magic happen? Why is it so unique to cheese? Why do some vegans – who have managed to dodge all other animal products – go on a lifelong quest to find the most pungent nut-based cheeses? And why do many would-be vegans name cheese as the one thing they cannot let go? Cows and farmers and dairy technicians and cheesemakers have perfected it, using techniques older than time to make something intense, pungent and sating that always hits the spot they’ve done all the hard work, and now it’s just sitting there in my fridge, available to me at any time. I’ve thought about the transformative powers of cheese a lot over the years. ![]() And, in the same vein, after a hard day we have all leaned on that slightly fearsome chunk of apricot-laced wensleydale that we panic-bought before Christmas before promptly forgetting about it – now, doesn’t it taste good on cream crackers with a big cup of tea and EastEnders? Suddenly, your overdue car MOT seems marginally less upsetting. We have all at some point found ourselves standing in the light of the chiller cabinet, scooping grated red leicester from the bag, head back, mouth open, pushing those slivers of loveliness down our throats and somehow feeling instantly better. Find that toasty loaf you’ve got for emergencies in the bottom drawer of the fridge, add a dollop of something runny like brown sauce or some sort of chutney, and there you go: now you have dinner.Ĭheese, in all its salty, fatty majesty, could well be the king of comfort foods. It’s because an almost empty fridge containing a small slab of ageing cheddar harbours at least a glimmer of hope – and even if that cheddar has a tiny speck of mould, you can just scrape it off and turn a blind eye (I won’t tell anyone). Who knows, maybe it will end up on a signal box someday.Why does cheese feel like a cuddle? Well, it’s because it just does. We all know how felines can be a little purr-snickety sometimes.” We’re hoping that our feline guests enjoy the entertainment and don’t complain too often about having to watch the occasional repeat episode. “Our many thanks to those who donated televisions. “Volunteers quickly began installing wall brackets that same day,” said Lynn Jefferson of PAWS. The cats are binging on Birding King TV for hours of daily enrichment and stimulation. Last week’s column about TVs needed for the cats at PAWS in Lynnwood led to more than enough TV donations. “Chilpancingo Friendship City,” at Alderwood Mall Boulevard and Alderwood Mall Parkway, celebrates Lynnwood’s friendship city in Mexico.Īnd to think “Almost Live!” deemed Lynnwood nondescript. “Thank you to Essential Workers,” at 188th Street SW and 44th Avenue W., pays tribute to the thousands of essential workers in Lynnwood during the pandemic in health care, warehouse jobs, construction, delivery and trades. A recent gig was for “Mean Girls” at the Paramount in Seattle. “My daughter thinks it’s funny,” Marone said.Īs for Marcus, 40 years later he still has hair, though less than in the photo, and plays the trombone as a sideline. Lisa Marone, 47, is shown on the box in her dance unitards from the Barclay Shelton Dance Centre in 1991, where her 7-year-old daughter now dances. The project’s debut was delayed due to the pandemic. In 2019, Wong asked Lynnwoodians to submit photos for the “Big Hair” box. Scents included enticing aromas that have driven Lynnwood men crazy for years, like “slightly damp sheepskin seat cover.” Perfume was sprayed on using a Super Soaker water gun pump. ![]() The “Lynnwood Beauty Academy” skits depicted three styles: poofed hair, big scary hair and the Lynnwood-patented “Wall-A-Bangs.” All went perfectly with beer can earrings.Įye shadow came in “easy to use buckets that will last a week” in three colors: “Lynnwood blue.” “Really really really blue.” “Not found in nature blue, only found in Lynnwood blue.” Wong said the idea came up during a brainstorming session about the lighter side of Lynnwood, called “a nondescript suburb” on the show. “Big Hair” celebrates a slice of the 1980s to ’90s Lynnwood that was lampooned on “Almost Live,” a popular locally grown sketch comedy show that aired on KING-TV for 15 years. The first was of butterflies and flowers on a box by Cedar Valley Community School in 2016. Lynnwood community programs coordinator Fred Wong is the mastermind of giving motorists something cool to look at while sitting at stoplights.
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