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Join our cooking contest!
Many of you, our customers, are fabulous cooks. Many of our staff are too. How do we know? Well, over the years, we’ve all exchanged recipes and cooking ideas and they’ve been great. So, to celebrate our newly-renovated store, we’re holding a cooking contest!
Cindy and Jocelyn want everyone to know about these NEW Products in our Health & Beauty Department.
PAUSE FOR PETS
Stark Sisters Granolas can now be found in all six Central Market stores in Texas. So who do you know in Texas? Who can you send to check out the bins and make sure they’re full? Write us or send an email and we’ll send you a Stark Sisters t-shirt just in time for spring!
Amanda adapted a recipe from a package of Sea Tangle kelp noodles, and her rendition is below. She says, “This lively and delicious salad will surprise everyone when you tell them the ‘noodles’ are actually mineral-packed sea kelp! Jazzed up with sesame oil and lemon, this dish tickles and brightens the palate and satisfies a salt craving without weighing down your system.”
The Psychographics of Breakfast Cereal -
Ah yes – another piece for which I must write a disclaimer! To whit: “my opinions here in no way reflect those of anyone else on staff, or, indeed, on Earth. Also, they don’t reflect Debra’s, yet she is still kind enough to print them. Cheers.”
Did anyone else catch that article in the New York Times[1] about how what you eat, and where you buy it, predicts how you’re going to vote in the presidential election? Good stuff. To be honest, part of me resents the way the spin-meisters and sales consultants intrude on our privacy, observe and record, cut and splice everything we do, for the sole purpose of turning it back on us. But an even bigger part of me is simply fascinated ...
I suppose the icy depths of winter would be a more appropriate time to cover herbs that are heating and spicy. But now is when the mood strikes, so, here goes.
Actually, summer might not be such a bad time for this, after all. Traditional South American, Asian, and Indian cultures don’t back off the spice just because the temperature is rising. On the other hand, the Eskimo’s aren’t exactly known for their spicy cuisine (or much any cuisine, for that matter). Kenyon also points out that cayenne pepper sends circulation to the surface. It might make you feel warmer, more flushed for a bit, but in the end it might cool you: heat at the surface is more easily dispersed than heat at the core ...
Toes on Display
Nail fungus? There are natural cures without side affects. But neither the natural cures nor the prescription treatments, which do have side affects, work overnight. Both methods take months and months to eradicate persistent fungus.
What to do? For starters, keep nails filed as short as you can. Yes, “file” as opposed to cut, because it’s virtually impossible to cut a thickened nail infected with fungus. You can soak your feet (see below) and then cut nails because soaking will temporarily soften them ...
Shopping bags are a big thing!
Let’s return to the days where bringing your own shopping bags was the norm, not the exception. We’ll continue to give you 5¢ for every re-usable bag you utilize. We’re not reordering plastic bags for the registers. Paper bags will be available, but they have their own environmental issues, so we hope you bring our own re-usable bags. One small step for mankind! Check out our purple bags made from recycled materials, which are also machine washable. At 99¢, they are a bargain. Our cost is more than $2.00 per bag.