chow chow

In retirement he remarried briefly and, though a practiced curmudgeon, went on enjoying the good things in life, including dogs (especially his chow-chow Kyla); strong coffee; Star Trek (all of them, except maybe DS9) ; mystery books; moccasins; Emily Dickinson; the Red Sox; British history; photography; the Metaphysical Poets; music; single malt scotch; tobacco; the ocean on the Lower Cape; fried crustaceans; and his daughters.

She lives in New York with her husband, Tony, their two sons, Julian and Fillip, and Zizu, her devoted black chow-chow.

Focusing only on sudden increases in aggression, the researchers studied 12 dogs (Giant schnauzer, Irish setter, Pit-bull, Dalmatian, two German shepherds, Neapolitan Mastiff, Shih-tzu, Bobtail, Catalan Sheepdog, Chow-chow and Doberman) that were brought to the university's veterinary hospital by their owners in 2010 and 2011.

In fall, before the first killing frost, everyone spent a day in the field picking every last green tomato, for "chowchow." Green chili chow-chow was the most wonderful part of the fall--preparing the stuff that made other food taste better all winter.

"Open yams and chow-chow vegetables were stored in boxes with mouse droppings, red peanuts and flaked almonds had been gnawed by mice and there were some mouse droppings in boxes containing broken pieces of chocolates."

Each family had recipes handed down from generation to generation for relish, pickles, chow-chow and stew stocks.

For Wayne Rooney's fiancee Coleen McLoughlin, who owns an pounds 800 pedigree chow-chow called Fizz, it's another reason to hit the shops.

Unable to accurately repeat the Chinese name for this concoction, they called it "chow-chow." No one could tell what it was composed of, so this name was given to any dish in which the contents could not be distinguished.

The afternoon saw us at a chow-chow club event, to which the Man-in-Charge had been invited.

The two-year-old chow-chow was dumped in Elgin, Moray, and the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals believe it had not eaten properly for weeks.