Archive for February, 2010
Move Over Aunt Jemima – We're Talking Real Maple Syrup
I am constantly amazed what my liberal arts education (and lots of it) never taught me. Case in point: maple syrup. Growing up in a large family of five children, maple syrup came to us in a large glass container with the words Log Cabin or Aunt Jemima emblazoned across the top – it was [...]
Chicken Coops
Apparently, Maine was once a chicken mecca. Then a grizzly guy claimed that it takes a tough bird to make a tender chicken, and most of our feathered friends migrated south to Delaware and other places. Well, that left all these empty chicken coops and cries that the sky is falling, the sky is falling. [...]
Wine, Wine Fruit of the Vine
Several friends have remarked that any time I am cruising on Interstate 95 between New Hampshire and Maine, I should be sure to stop at this big wine store sitting right on the border – well, a few feet inside New Hampshire. Turns out that New Hampshire has no tax on wine and liquor (how [...]
