The unofficial kickoff of cookout season — Memorial Day weekend — hurtles toward us like an errant Frisbee in an overcrowded park. Will you meet it with rec-league reflexes and roll up to the party with a parade of complementary pasta salads, or will you let it ding you in the temple?I’m admittedly about to take a disk to the dome, to overextend the metaphor. Once again caught off guard by the steady drumbeat of time, I am wholly unprepared for three days of potential picnicking.Thankfully, there are many ways to eat well this weekend. For the host with the most — i.e., the person…
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