I think I’ll just stay here and drink: Merle Haggard dead at 79

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Before Powell left Guelph he called me up to give me a bunch of old records he had in his house. I took all the Neil Young, the Stones and the Clash.

And a Willie Nelson album.

That Willie Nelson album led me to Merle Haggard, who is my kind of country artist. Beer, whisky, horses and trucks. 05-og

Merle died today, and while Pancho and Lefty is probably Willie and Merle’s most famous collaboration, one of my favorite albums of 2015 was Django and Jimmie.

 

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.