It’s worth a trip to Cincinatti just to visit Jungle Jim’s International Market. It’s a stimulating experience with a surprise on every aisle. You know you’re in for a treat when you find a place where someone cared enough about your happiness to install Port-a-potty doors as portals to the restrooms.
Mission in a Bottleby Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, co-founders of Honest Tea. This is another in a series of very interesting books I learned about by listening to Dan Pink’s interviews in his podcast “Office Hours” series. Dan puts it well: “Seth and Barry have crafted a rich and compelling story and told it with the perfect blend of inspiration and humility. For anybody who has started a business—especially those considering an entrepreneurial path Mission in a Bottle is a must read.”
One of the many cool things about the book is it is written in comic book form.
Just watched “Veducated” on Amazon Prime streaming video, which gently makes the case that a meat/dairy diet is unsustainable in light of the world’s growing population, and cruel to animals. “Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured by tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover the hidden sides of animal agriculture that make them wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. This entertaining documentary showcases the rapid and at times comedic evolution of three people who discover they can change the world one bite at a time.”
I’ve accepted a few cups of coffee out of politeness over the years, and drank a few more on late night drives, but was otherwise not a regular drinker and had decided to save it for middle age. Now that I’ve passed that and am on the downward slope I decided that it might be time to take the plunge and see what all the fuss is about coffee.
On one recent late night drive I picked up a small French Vanilla Latte from a drive thru along the highway, and was overcome by the waves of sweet goodness, and a few exits later picked up another–this time a medium–in order to prolong the experience. Soon I was sailing down he road in the middle of the night with a nice coffee buzz.
Since then I’ve been trying to get back to that first high but something is missing. It is always a little bitter, or not rich enough. This reminds of what heroin addicts say, that the first time is the best and thereafter you are always trying, but never succeeding, to get back to that first rush. I’ve decided that latte is an entry delivery method and am going to try to stop before I move on to black and end up on cappuccino, or whatever the progression is.
OMG! Noosa Yogurt is to die for! I heard two ladies talking about it in the dairy aisle, that it is the greatest yogurt, but they only get it at some other store because that’s where you can get the large (16 oz) size. I broke down a couple grocery shopping outings later and took a tub home. Noosa bills it as “…crafted from a super-secret Aussie recipe, with milk from happy cows raised on a family-owned Colorado farm.” My only problem now is that my local Target only stocks the 8 oz size, which is not enough to satisfy my craving.
Betcha can't eat just one!