Cooking with Grit

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Goes great with beans: Faithful readers and helper-outers of Judyrae Kruse’s Forum column dug into their recipe troves when another reader wanted a recipe for corn dodgers that she saw John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn plugging with his six-shooter

in the 1969 version of “True Grit.”

After a little Internet research, another reader responded with a recipe for hot water corn bread. Vegetarians, school marms and fancy boys can substitute corn oil for the coonmeat grease that Rooster’s recipe calls for.

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Spelling counts: The League of Education Voters says Washington state deserves a C-minus for its record in educating students, faulting it for not adequately funding basic education.

Later this spring, the state Supreme Court is expected to order state legislators to write “I will fully fund education as the constitution requires,” 100 times on the blackboard.

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All y’all Tweet me back: Carnegie Mellon University researchers combed through 380,000 tweets by Twitter users during one week last year and found that slang words specific to U.S. regions, such as “y’all” in the South and “coo” for “cool” in California, have found their way into the world of social networking.

The one exception was “fuhgettaboutit” in New York, because tweeters typically lost interest and gave up typing the word after the second “t.”