"jmcquown" wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes::
> Bob Pastorio, long time poster to rec.food.cooking (and several
> other groups I never frequented) passed away this afternoon. He
> was diagnosed with liver cancer last year and vanished from the ng's
> around that time. His wife reported he lapsed into unconsciousness
> yesterday and never woke up again. This afternoon he simply slipped
> away. She thinks he was at peace and not in pain. He had a hospice
> care nurse in the house but they chose to keep him at home in his
> last months. He was surrounded by family (he has a 15 year old
> daughter) at the time of his passing.

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"Jack Campin - bogus address" > wrote > "jmcquown"
wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes::
>> Bob Pastorio, long time poster to rec.food.cooking (and several
>> other groups I never frequented) passed away this afternoon. He
>> was diagnosed with liver cancer last year and vanished from the ng's
>> around that time. His wife reported he lapsed into unconsciousness
>> yesterday and never woke up again. This afternoon he simply slipped
>> away. She thinks he was at peace and not in pain. He had a hospice
>> care nurse in the house but they chose to keep him at home in his
>> last months. He was surrounded by family (he has a 15 year old
>> daughter) at the time of his passing.
>

Bob was a knowledgeable, good humored member of this small group. His
contributions will be missed, as he helped to stimulate dialogue and
repartee in the rare moments that this dark and barely frequented backwater
was churned to a froth.

I will miss him, and hope that some reader here can pass my comment to his
wife.

We are the less for his leaving....

TMO

"TMOliver" > wrote in
:

>
> "Jack Campin - bogus address" > wrote >
> "jmcquown" wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes::
>>> Bob Pastorio, long time poster to rec.food.cooking (and several
>>> other groups I never frequented) passed away this afternoon. He
>>> was diagnosed with liver cancer last year and vanished from the ng's
>>> around that time. His wife reported he lapsed into unconsciousness
>>> yesterday and never woke up again. This afternoon he simply slipped
>>> away. She thinks he was at peace and not in pain. He had a hospice
>>> care nurse in the house but they chose to keep him at home in his
>>> last months. He was surrounded by family (he has a 15 year old
>>> daughter) at the time of his passing.
>>
>
> Bob was a knowledgeable, good humored member of this small group. His
> contributions will be missed, as he helped to stimulate dialogue and
> repartee in the rare moments that this dark and barely frequented
> backwater was churned to a froth.
>
> I will miss him, and hope that some reader here can pass my comment to
> his wife.
>
> We are the less for his leaving....
>
> TMO
>
>
>

I too am sorry to hear this.

Mark.

Bob was a great and patient source of obscure info. When I saw this note I
was hoping it was an April fool joke by him, posting late due to Internet
time oddities. No such luck, I guess. It's a reminder to enjoy the pleasures
of eating while we are here, and raise a glass to one of the great ones...


--
-Mark H. Zanger, webmaster and chair of the Banquet Committee, Culinary
Historians of Boston;
author, The American History Cookbook, The American Ethnic Cookbook for
Students
www.ethnicook.com
www.historycook.com




"Jack Campin - bogus address" > wrote in message
...
> "jmcquown" wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes::
>> Bob Pastorio, long time poster to rec.food.cooking (and several
>> other groups I never frequented) passed away this afternoon. He
>> was diagnosed with liver cancer last year and vanished from the ng's
>> around that time. His wife reported he lapsed into unconsciousness
>> yesterday and never woke up again. This afternoon he simply slipped
>> away. She thinks he was at peace and not in pain. He had a hospice
>> care nurse in the house but they chose to keep him at home in his
>> last months. He was surrounded by family (he has a 15 year old
>> daughter) at the time of his passing.
>
> ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk
> ==============
> Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660
> 4760
> <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554
> 975
> stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739
> 557