Peace out, trout! Since the hippies don\’t like farmed fish yet (our store only sells wild caught seafood), I got the honor of buying 5# of trout that the distributor had in excess. He says they are cleaner tasting than their wild cronies. That trout was pretty delicious tasting as I sucked it\’s eyeballs out at my dinner table last night! It was scaled, coated with flour-garlic powder-white pepper & fried in butter. I ate everything – skin, fins – it is all on the plate. Six more to go! BAM LIKE WHOA

This is my great grandfather Charles Elsworth Oliver, the gentleman farmer. His brother – an insurance salesman – would say that Charles always figured with the wrong end of the pencil. So now you know where I get it from.

Get with the cheese program!
 
The Journal wrote an article entitled, \”The Cheese Stands Alone\” which critiques the offerings of three local grocers, including our store, Eureka Natural Foods. Don\’t miss the comments section below the article; this is where it gets interesting! How many employees does it take to break an eighty-four pound Parmigiano Reggiano?