Diane is a SmartShopit team member and new to blogging. Well, not totally new. She does help do a lot of the editing for this site. This is her first post and is for a contest in the style of the upcoming movie “Julie & Julia”. If you like the blog, please show her your [...]
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Who is the next upcoming food TV Star? Don’t go looking to the Food Channel or Bravo’s Top Chef. This culinary diva comes to us from YouTube. There you will find 93 year old cook and grandmother, Clara Cannucciari. She has a series of 10 episodes, made over the past two years, that cover recipes [...]
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Sometimes one wonders if corporate America makes up holidays and national days just to sell greeting cards and products. In fact, I began to ponder this question on a recent trip to a local pancake house. For you see, tomorrow, Tuesday February 24th, is proclaimed as National Pancake Day. An initial search for “National Pancake [...]
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Long ago I spent countless hours in the kitchen trying to perfect the consummate bowl of chowder, laced with tender bits of clam and just the right amount of creaminess. Nothing beats a good bowl of clam chowder on a chilly winter day. And with all the rain we’ve been getting, I sure am glad [...]
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Some believe that Valentine’s Day was born from the pre-Christian celebration known as Lupercalia, which celebration period began on February 14th. This was a fertility celebration that coincided with the ides of February (the 15th), and often resulted in marriages.
As we head out to the stores this week to buy the one’s we love some flowers and something [...]
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