By Chris Segura

Even on hot August afternoons, canopies of water oaks and gums and one hickory cooled the breeze down Coulee Cochon. It was always predictably pleasant as you watched the corn kernels being shaved from the cobs.
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By Rhonda K. Findley

Behold the ugli (pronounced Hoo-Glee in island patois) and know that the real beauty of this native Jamaican hybrid citrus fruit truly is in the eye of the beholder. Fans of the ugli know that passing over the real beauties of the fruit world is the first step to uncovering true splendor.
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By Elizabeth Pearce

My grandparents grew up in a rural community about 50 miles north of New Orleans. Even when they moved “to town” to open their feed store, they maintained property out on the rolling hills of the Bogue Chitta river and maintained good relations with their neighbor, Cotton (who I of course in good southern fashion, called “Mr. Cotton.”)
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By Adrienne Asher-Gepford

During the fifties, I spent summers with my grandparents in the Napa Valley. There were a lot more dirt roads then, no restaurants to speak of, and vineyards were regarded as a farming job not an upscale lifestyle.
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By Adrienne Asher-Gepford

This is the time of year that demands outdoor dining. Napa Valley in August is hot. Not humid, not thinking about fall yet, just dry dusty days of golden hills and roadside bushes bending with their loads of blackberries.
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By Larry Bartlett

Broad Run Cheesehouse
6011 Old Route 39 N. W.
Dover, Ohio 44622
1-800-332-3358
1-330-343-4108
FAX 330-343-1092
www.broadruncheese.com
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By Larry Bartlett

Breitenbach Wine Cellars
5934 Old Route 39 N. W.
Dover, Ohio 44622
(330) 343-3603

www.breitenbachwine.com

In the springtime, did you wage war against wild, devilish dandelions on the lawn?
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By Susan Cole Dore

I realize that I am about to state an opinion that will quite likely be disputed, but here goes. Speckled trout, also known as spotted weakfish or spotted sea trout, is the best eating fish in North America. Better than Pacific salmon or sea bass? Better than redfish or pompano? Yes, yes, yes!
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By Chris Segura

Before Singapore, the best pizza you had ever eaten was in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. It was a surprise to find such excellent pizza when you expected black beans and rice, having been invited out by a Honduran media expert with a name out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel: Jacobo Goldstein.
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By John DeMers

Just a short drive south from Houston on I-45, then west past NASA’s Johnson Space Center to the shores of wide Galveston Bay, Kemah awaits big-time family tourism as though it were the Second Coming. When it comes, “Fertitta World” will be ready.
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