One restaurant in town obviously isn’t interested in attracting or retaining a Jewish clientele… Shrimp wrapped in prosciutto bacon??? What is less kosher than that? I guess it could be worse if it was all stuffed in the mouth of a pig.

It is cold, even inside where the heater is here but does not work. The lights are on for the holidays but the cheer has to wait still. It is me and the dog, both waiting in anticipation not for Santa—it is almost a week too early for that and that isn’t really what defines […]

My work “productivity” is measured in how many invoices are counted to my credit each week. Not a lot was said about desirable numbers when I was hired, but Bob the boss mentioned that he’d like to see 70 in a week, which is about 14-15 a day. I tackled that with […]

A baby boks of choy
Twenty-four carrot Yukon gold
Taters, maters and jicamango
Broccoleafy vegetables
Caulifloral arrangements
Honey, dew you love me?
We can’t elope…

I sure hope its not true that things happen in threes. Or else I will need a few bath towels to clean up.
Last night I was fetching a large bottle of balsamic vinaigrette dressing from a top shelf at home—one that was a bit of a stretch for me. It was stacked on its side […]

After a summer that spanned about three and a half months, Kelli had to return to school once more. This time, it is her final semester, but from this perspective, it is the seventh time we’ve had this experience of going our separate ways for about 16 weeks at a time. She […]

I don’t know what it is, but in my little corner of the food industry, there are a great many southpaw lefties like myself. Cook and warehouser alike, there are a goodly number of us. I have never seen more lefties in my daily comings and goings. Maybe it is the creative aspect of […]