Richmond State

I’m going to make one more quick comment about cheese and then mercifully drop the subject. There is a cheese exchange in Wisconsin. Only two percent of U.S. cheese is exchange-traded but the exchange rates are used to set wholesale prices. Kraft is the largest seller on this exchange, oftenRead More →

Throughout history popularly held truisms often get shattered, leaving us not only a new batch of eventually discredited truisms but also a suspicion that we shouldn’t believe these axioms to begins with. For example, turn-of-the-century physicists determined that cars couldn’t travel faster than 45 mph because the human body couldn’tRead More →

In Treasure Island, Ben Gunn wistfully moans,”The long night I’ve dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.” Clifton Fadiman noted in his 1957 Any Number Can Play,” Yet it remains cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.” If only they knew what would happen. Anyone fascinated by food and related anecdotes would doRead More →

Lately, I have been asked a variety of odd questions for which I will attempt some answers. Most of you know storing bits of arcana is about the only thing I’m good at. “What about Holland House?” “Is it Dutch?”, is the most obscure line of quizzing I’ve ever received.Read More →

First I want to make it clear that I like World Cup, the one on Robinson. But has anyone been over to the World Cup, Bagel thing, Pottery Wine shop in the River Road Shopping Center? It’s depressing. In what is meant to be a premier shopping center in theRead More →

While seated in a restaurant or at your host’s dinner table, do you ever think yourself, “Right now one of those dishes from U.S. Air would really hit the spot?” Well, if you haven’t yet enjoyed this day dream, the sentiment has been anticipated. American Airlines has just published aRead More →

I have had visions. Not the sort of visions that lead to the English defeat at Orleans or even create an order such as the leaping Berylians, but visions none the less. Recently these visions have manifested themselves as a look into the future. Martha Stewart’s future I can seeRead More →

So, you’re thinking about doing nothing, reading, lying about a pool while pleasant aproned people have you sign for drinks. You just want to relax, get some sun, maybe go to the beach, maybe not, snorkel, booze cruise, gamble, night life, or not. If you are sick of snow goRead More →

by Pongo Twistleton Well it seems that I owe Belle Kuisine an apology. In my last column I suggested a variety of shops for getting entertainment food and tidbits. I left out Belle Kuisine and they ended up saving my day. For a New Year’s Eye dinner I needed aRead More →

I toddled on into one of our local cafes for lunch with an old pal. Mindful of well–rounded consumption and joy I asked for and received a seat in smoking. Soon enough our ashtray was abducted with the excuse that a large party had arrived, they must be seated nearRead More →