Leave it to my brother Luke, and avid MMA fan (that’s mixed martial arts to you and me) to find a fighter who is a Mensa club member, winemaker and an avid oenophile whose list of recommended Mother’s Day wines reads like a wine geeks wish list. Click here to check it out.
IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD……Needless to say I am quite content with the outcome of this election. Mayor Tomzak ended up with 64% of the vote and won in all four wards. I do have to say that the early posting implying that because my…
Hi
Everybody,
Join us this Friday in a
nice,
smoke free listening room in
downtown Fredericksburg.
Laurie and Peter
www.laurieandpeter.com
Friday, May 9, 7:30-9:30
The Griffin Bookstore & Coffee Bar
723 Caroline St.
Frederick…
Colonial Beach 2ndFriday
Art Walk
6 – 8 pm, Friday May 9th,
2008
The 2nd Friday Art
Walk in Colonial Beach will be held from 6 – 8 pm on Friday the 9th
of May
and we have some exciting exhibits planned.
First is our annual student competi…
The last two beers I posted about were from West Coast breweries, so I figured it’s time to move back to the East. Old Dominion Oak Barrel Stout is an old favorite and one of the first stouts we enjoyed on a regular basis. In fact, we typically have at…
Monday, March [24, 1862] Papa came up yesterday. He looks very much depressed. He wants Mama and all of us women kind to make up our minds to stay here when the place is occupied by the Yankees, as everyone says it must be ere long. I am n…
There were at least three:
The speed at which the returns were in. According to my timepiece,
we knew by 7:30 PM which seemed so quick I wondered if the numbers were
accurate or complete.
The nearly 2 to 1 margin was certainly noteworthy as…
With few exceptions, I prefer to focus on good beers when writing these musings, however the St. Petersburg Times is running an article entitled “The world’s 10 most disgusting beers”:Good beer is increasingly easy to find in America, and that is good …
Have you seen Twitter yet?Twitter is a blog site for those if us who are not talented enough to actually “write something” that is meaningful enough to make people want to sit there and read.I think of Twitter as the CNN Headline News of blog sites. I …
One of my pet peeves when eating out is flimsy flatware. You the know the kind I mean, forks that you can bend, spoons that look already bent. I have always wondered why restaurants that put so much effort into everything else often overlook this detail. Now I know.
The flatware available at restaurant supply is either inexpensive and decidedly low budget looking, or horribly expensive, but sturdy. The problem with spending money on the “good” stuff is that it is an additional expense that a small operation just can’t afford. $4 for a fork?
After racking my brain for a solution to this problem the answer occurred to me while eating dinner at home. The line of flatware I use at home was not terribly expensive, and certainly much sturdier than what I had looked at for restaurant supply. After doing a little investigative work with the company, Gourmet Settings, I found a line that they sell in open-stock and even better in a matte finish (no fingerprints). The setting is called Carry On and won a red dot design award and an American Culinary award. The weight in the hand is perfect, and we didn’t have to kill our budget to get something a little nicer.
Click here to check it out.
