One day last week I was talking with Giovanna Azevedo, the chef at The Bistro on Main Street in downtown Tupelo, and she told me she’s moving her small, French-style restaurant to the old Park Heights restaurant building behind Burger King at Crosstown.
You can read more about the move and Giovanna in a story in [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 30, 2008
Bistro’s moving
June 20, 2008
McFit Diet
This nugget was provided this morning by The Associated Press. I don’t believe I’ll be trying this one.
A Quinton, Va., man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald’s.
Not Big Macs, french fries and chocolate shakes. Mostly salads, wraps and apple dippers without the caramel sauce.
Chris Coleson tipped [...]
June 20, 2008
White Lily to leave South
I have just seen a story in The Atlanta-Journal Constitution that says that at the end of the month, White Lily flour will no longer be made in the South. For 125 years, the flour has been milled at a factory in Knoxville, Tenn.
According to the story, “J.M. Smucker, which bought the White Lily brand [...]
June 13, 2008
Thai City now open
I got this very nice e-mail from Mary Katherine Spencer-Solapek, a reader from Baldwyn. In case you missed this info on the bizbuzz blog, the Asian Market restaurant and grocery store that used to be located on South Gloster street has recently located to North Gloster, across from Woody’s (most recently La Famiglia was there [...]
June 9, 2008
Olive oil sauce
When my daughter and I traveled to L.A. last week, we ate twice at Italian-type restaurants. Many dishes had a marinara sauce or a meat sauce or a cream-based sauce – all of which we’re used to – but a couple of dishes on the menus had olive oil sauces. One was a garlic/oil sauce, [...]
