Saw the list of the 600 Starbucks location that are closing in the United States over the next several months. With 12 locations scattered throughout the city with most of them opening in the past three years, it was with some surprise that the only location Winston-Salem location closing is the one at Harpers Commons [...]

I can not think of anything more bland than chicken. It is today the ubiquitous meat in today’s cuisine. Versatile, relatively inexpensive, it far more prevalent than beef, pork or fish. At one time, chicken was a far more expensive meat product but mass production by farmers today that can produce a grocery ready bird [...]

No one denies that we are in an economy that is in some difficulty. The degree of difficulty you are encountering depends on where you live in the United States. Here in North Carolina, I figure we are right now in the middle of the pack… not too bad but not the best either. Of [...]

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This week Ribfest took place in downtown Winston-Salem. In its fourth year of operation, it brought together a variety of different BBQ operations to show off their skills and treat the locals to some fine BBQ. For our lunch, we had the rib meal along with the pulled pork sandwich. It is good as it [...]

There has been a diet that has been quite successful in years past in keeping most people relatively slim for many years but it has fallen out of favor in the past twenty to thirty years. Instead people tried Weight Watchers, Atkins, Grapefruit, Green Tea diets among the hundreds of diets that have their own [...]