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Archive for May, 2010

I finally made it to Huntsville’s new Earth Fare location last weekend, although I failed to spend the requisite $100-plus some customers have brag-complained about. Earth Fare is like any other grocery store in its basic layout: If you stick to the perimeter, where the produce, dairy products, meats, cheeses and breads are located, you’ll [...]

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People who buy iced tea by the gallon in plastic cartons: You are paying a company to steep tea bags in hot water and burn gasoline to drive flavored water to the grocery store. You could make way better iced tea yourself for much less money. This is ranking right up there with buying premixed [...]

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Meet Franz. I bought him for $2 at an estate sale I attended just so I could get a look at the interior of some townhomes in my neighborhood. He looked lonely and in danger of being shipped off to a thrift store with the rest of the unsellables. Franz was hand-sketched in charcoal. He [...]

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I used to think the best strawberries in the world came from southern Louisiana. That was before I found southern Tennessee. Sorry, Louisiana. You have been dethroned. These strawberries are like candy, many so sweet that it seems like somebody has already dipped them in sugar. I found them at the Dennison’s Family Farm strawberry [...]

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Yikes. Who’s running this thing? In the past three weeks, I’ve been to New York City and back, completed a pretty  involved school research project and fretted over my elderly grandmother and a broken ocean. I also made the most awesome banana-walnut ice cream of all time and embarked on several new personal and professional [...]

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