Regional Speech Patterns Travel With You

by Kevin Burton    One fine morning in a restaurant we don’t often go to, in a small town where you better not speed or they’ll fine you for sure (Derby, Kansas), a waitress referred to my wife and I as “yins.”    That is a contraction of “you ones” and it’s a regionalism from …

Great Kitchen Marriage: Mac And Cheese

by Kevin Burton    Today is the national day for what apparently is a regional dish, macaroni and cheese.     Macaroni and Cheese is comfort food for many of us. I have seen it as a much-needed point of agreement. So I hate to insert a note of controversy here. But….    But upon just …