Ever wanted to sample a whiskey before you bought it? Ever want to taste an aged balsamic vinegar before you invested in a bottle? You can do both of these at Vom Fass, a 258-store franchise operation. Originally from Georgia, I never enjoyed the Vom Fass experience; relocating to Greenville has yet another benefit. Ms. Jeanj Brodnax-Martin owns the Woodruff Road location with her husband, Michael. Providing “the world’s best retail-sampling experience,” Vom Fass has a practical way to engage visitors. The Vom Fass Experience You will open the front and discover alcohol is on the right, vinegar and olive oils are on the left. Of course, I headed right. …
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Williamston Homestead Festival
Attended the Williamston Homestead Festival last weekend. It was a free, family friendly event held at Mineral Spring Park in downtown Williamston. Celebrating a lifestyle of self sufficiency, the festival offered classes, vendors and a seed swap table. Homesteading can be characterized by agriculture, textiles, clothing, or craft work. I wanted to learn more about sustainable plants and crops. Useful Plant Nursery Chuck Marsh, Permaculture designer, of Useful Plant Nursery provided a very informative presentation of plants that provide benefits beyond looking pretty in your landscape. Many plants have medicinal benefits that nature has provided since our Indian, original homesteaders, lived off the land. Marsh explained his concern for the lack…
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Distribution & Marketing of Our Food – PART 3
A four part series examining the United States Government’s relationship with the agricultural industry and how that directly affects your family’s health So far, we have examined the United States governmental hold on our food supply and how subsidized foods are dangerous to our health. Corn, the number one subsidized food in this country, is processed and manipulated into everything from high fructose corn syrup to feed for cattle. The Agricultural Department and the Food and Drug Administration have created an additive, detrimental food supply, contributing to our country’s ill health and obesity. Mass Distribution The Grocery Manufactures of America want to sell cheap processed foods, at higher prices in…
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Does the Government Decide What You Eat – PART 2
A four part series examining the United States Government’s relationship with the agricultural industry and how that directly affects your family’s health In part 1, we discovered CORN is the most heavily processed food in the nation and high-fructose corn syrup is killing us, by making us the most overweight nation in the world. Because the US Government subsidizes farmers to produce more corn, eventually to be processed, but does not compensate farmers to grow fruits and vegetables, we are a nation that is doomed. Government Is Not Concerned Our national “Dietary Guidelines,” are developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, in conjunction with the United States Department…
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National Read a Book Day
It is National Read a Book Day and I am excited because I love books! I read all kinds of books from cookbooks to horror. I refuse to participate in the “digital” book age, preferring to buy all my books in print; and I am not alone 65% of Americans read print books 28% of Americans prefer digital books I love foodie books and I have included my favorite foodie books. Benefits of reading a book Scientific research has proven reading is good for the mind. Books sharpen your senses. If you read the word garlic, it triggers your sense of smell. Metaphors like, a slimy okra, triggers a…
