Each time I receive an email showcasing how consumers can connect with local food processors, I am going to share it. This is just amazing and I wish they were here in the Charlotte, NC area. “The Walking Fish Cooperative, a community supported fishery (CSF) that links fishermen on the coast to consumers in the Triangle, is very pleased to announce the Winter 2012 season. Please help them spread the word!

I was in the mood for some good old fashioned vegetable soup and immediately realized there was no restaurant around that served it. You know the kind mom use to make. My mother is a master vegetable soup maker. She could whip up a batch of vegetable soup on a cold Saturday afternoon, with cornbread on the side and make a dreary gray day into something spectacular, like a trip to Venice.

Whether you call it “stuffin” or “dressin” is really a matter of where you live;  it’s a regional thing.

Those who live in the south are more apt to call it dressing, while everyone else calls it “stuffin” or if you must “stuffing” and for those outside the south who call it dressing.

It’s really funny how the longer you live the more you come to realize that nothing is really new, it just gets recycled in a different wrapper. I have known this for years, partly because I have been cooking and/or working in food service most of my life.

It is only fair to give the new foodie show “The Chew” the benefit of the doubt; and if I were not so disgusted by it, I would. According to David Hinkley, Daily News Writer, the goals of the show are a bit “ambitious.”