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Highway view at sunset with green road sign.
Summer is winding down, the days are getting shorter, and the first day of school is just around the corner.
Wagonmaster movie cover showing 1960's wood sided station wagon in front of ranch house.
This is a super enjoyable 40 minute PBS documentary (not including voluminous and very worthwhile bonus features) celebrating the rise and fall and ongoing club-like passion for the American station wagon.
Blue food truck for Retro Sno.
Working downtown like I do it’s hard...no, nigh unto impossible to ignore the existence of the food truck phenomenon. A few of them even park directly in front of the library on 6th Avenue. And yet…I’ve never officially eaten at one.
Book cover for Egg, a book all about eggs.
Our whirlwind library culinary tour continues with one of my favorite ingredients - is it savory or is it sweet? Nope. It's just The Egg.
Painting of cheese, oranges, artichokes, flowers, and other items.
If Julia Child is the grande dame of cooking, then MFK Fisher is her counterpart in the land of food writers. There is no way we could possibly Savor Summer without mentioning her brilliance.