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THE How-to Booklet of Solo Dining Tips & Strategies:
The Art and Satisfaction of Dining Alone — REVEALED!
is now available for purchase in PDF format!
Everyone's discovering it and sampling its variations. Is it time for you to get in on the tasting?
Get the details on an exciting salt sampler.
Board your next flight with a favorite bottle of wine? Get all the details.
When's the last time you ordered an entire bottle of wine just for you? What are the pros of doing so?
USA Today - March 18, 2005 - reports that Heritage
Foods USA (offshoot of the Slow Food movement) asks, "Why stock your freezer with generic meat and
poultry from an industrial-size producer when you can tap into the world of rare animal breeds that are raised
on small farms using humane and environmentally sound methods?"
They have just published its first "Spring Almanac" mail-order catalogue which offers 36 Heritage Products, including Berkshire pork, North American bison, Dark Cornish chicken; wild sockeye salmon; tomahawk oysters; and Native American-raised wild rice.
Concerned about the meat you eat?
For over 25 years, Niman Ranch has been providing premium quality meats to the finest San Francisco Bay Area restaurants, and more recently, to fine markets and restaurants across the country. Now, you can order Niman Ranch beef, pork and lamb for delivery to your door.
Here's the introduction to Niman Ranch's "Story":
"Niman Ranch produces the finest tasting meat in the world by adhering to a strict code of husbandry principles. Livestock are humanely treated, fed the purest natural feeds (with no animal by-products or waste), never given growth hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics, and raised on land that is cared for as a sustainable resource. In other words…raised with care, naturally."
Niman also educates their customers, from chef to retailer to consumer, about what they do and why they do it in raising and marketing their meat.
One of the best ways of becoming aware of what they offer — besides taking one of their "Ranch Tours" — is becoming a subscriber to their e-newsletter (Recipes! Notices about special event dinners! Meat preparing tips!)
Here's an excerpt of their praise:
"One taster declared it to be 'what bacon tasted like before commercial processing.
Among the pounds and pounds of the stuff we fried up, this was the only bacon that our testers totally devoured."
For more details, click: Niman
Sinkie.com — The International Association of People Who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink — announced its annual list of six prominent Suspected Closet-Sinkies.
Closet-Sinkies occasionally partake of food and beverage while standing over their kitchen sinks or in comparable informal fashion, although intentionally unobserved for reasons of (we think needless) guilt or embarrassment.
Given recognition this year are: Nathan Lane, Cokie Roberts, Don Imus, Queen Latifah, John Walsh and Rachael Ray.
This year’s six Suspected Closet-Sinkies were officially enshrined with their fellow casual-comfort-food gourmets on “Sinkie Day” – always the day after Thanksgiving.
Norm Hankoff, Founder of the Sinkie Association in 1991, expressed the organization's position on this once-a-year honor: "We have no actual evidence such as snapshots, videotapes or witnesses willing to testify, but we wouldn't be at all surprised if our six recipients occasionally experience the laid-back dining styles millions of ordinary people enjoy."
Are you a New Yorker? Lucky you! If you are looking for a new way to make friends and you want to be part of a community, The Lunch Club is the place for you!
If you plan to visit New York City — you're invited too!
The Lunch Club is a full-time community organization with over 1200 members in their 20's and 30's.
Many come to The Lunch Club because they have their daytimes free. Some are just in it for the dinners (The Lunch Club After Dark).
Gatherings are hosted in the East Village or Lower East Side several times a week for lunch (or dinner), good times and socializing.
You will always be introduced to the people around you and you're sure to make many new friends with similar schedules. They encourage you to come alone!
Whatever your situation, they have gatherings that fit your schedule and hundreds of great people to meet, connect and keep in touch with. They have a "Virtual Clubhouse" that makes it easy! To take a tour, click: here
It's FREE to join! You just buy your own meal. To learn more about The Lunch Club and how it works, click: here
Visit sister website, SoloTravelPortal.com — click: travel solo
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