MyTown Marketplace opens in Highland Falls
Hudson Valley residents in and around the village of Highland Falls don’t have a wealth of shopping options when it comes to food, but someone’s getting the party started. Here’s to what MyTown Marketplace is: Now Open. Fresh. Food. Daily.
Wanted: neighbor with backyard chickens
With appetizing joy, I recently received a dozen perfectly imperfect eggs from someone who keeps backyard chickens. We’re not in egg-tossing range, but within an easy two-mile stretch of each other. I appreciated the fresh eggs, and their minimal travel distance. Track back your breakfast. Find out how far food travels before it reaches your […]
Go small town and minimize shopping excess
When you move from the city to a small West Texas town, grocery shopping is disconcerting at first. Then you feel a surge of joy. You no longer have to buy bread at one store, meat at another, produce at the farmers’ market, cheese at the-best-place-in-Texas, non-perishables somewhere else. You have the choice of Store […]
Browsing at Sprouts
Sparkling clean and still new in town, Sprouts is the latest in markets to sprout up around Austin. The Sunset Valley location offers a fair selection, which drew me in along with this week’s special . . . strawberries at 99 cents per pound. I found a few well-priced staples as well as a new temptation – fig […]
Clean slate in the cookery
Happy New Year, food-minded friends. The advantage of leaving a tidy kitchen is returning home to a clean slate. We’ve just returned from holiday travels and it’s great to be home. What’s best–we’re starting the new year off with an empty refrigerator and a sparsely stocked pantry. True, my wallet may feel the pinch this week, but […]
A-p-p-l-e
Slice this: the Honeycrisp organic apple. The taste measures up to the size. This was a cookery indulgence at $2.99/pound at Austin HEB this week. It’s not easy to justify a bushel, but a pound of the Honeycrisp organic apple stretches all the way across a table.
The Whole Note
Does a place exist where everyone’s friendly, the surroundings are beautiful and the clock stops without worry? Whole Foods managed to consume my whole morning and absorb the whole family food budget for the week (possibly part of next’s week budget, too). Friends have sent warnings and they spoke spot-on of the temptation: Whole Foods offers natural beauty in its […]