Local Food and Produce Market Guide
In an age of mega marts, online grocery pickup, and even delivering drones, food and produce markets are a rapidly dwindling footprint. Finding specialty...
Arts for All
By Chris Watson
“Every artist was first an amateur”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two little boys scamper enthusiastically around the rooms of the Black Swamp Fine Arts School while...
Shoppers on Site: Pizza Take Out Edition
By Chris Watson
Pizza is good any time of the year. However, when fall kicks in, school is in full swing, football rages, and summer...
Right Size Vacuum Sealing
When most people are asked why they picked up “take out” on the way home their response is simple: “I didn’t have anything to...
Candy for Grown Ups
By Chris Watson
Do not even try and deny it...you eat what ever candy is in the candy bowl at Halloween. If you have kids,...
Cool Summer Suppers
By Chris Watson
It is hot, sticky, and an “air you can wear” kind of day. When we are hungry and tired all we can...
Trick or Treat Times 2022
Trick or Treat times used to be easy. Parents ran out and got some candy the week before and kids cut some holes in...
Top Ten Local Coffee Roasters
Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
--Ann Morrow Lindbergh
For some, coffee is a mere necessity....
Day Tripping!
By Chris Watson
Northwest Ohio has great attractions. Cedar Point, The Toledo Zoo, Maumee Bay State Park, Toledo Museum of Art...the list is pretty extensive....
Poaching Chicken
By Chris Watson
For many of us, the minute we see the words “2 cups cooked chicken” we sigh in frustration. We know that we...