- I don't know how I missed it but The Bakery (at the corner of Charlestown Beach Road and Matunuck Schoolhouse Road) now has pizzas in addition to their fantastic breakfast treats and breads. They are doing this on Saturdays and Sundays and they're staying open a little later, through lunch. You can eat it there but they tell me it re-heats well if you want to pick it up for dinner. I plan to get by there soon to try it.
- The Breachway Grill (across the street from The Bakery) is now serving Bar-B-Q. At least they were this weekend and it was fantastic, with large portions with enough for lunch the day.
- But that won't diminish my enjoyment of Kit Kat BBQ in Shannock. Check it out on a weekend, with a tour of the beautiful village and Horseshoe Falls, when you get a chance. They recently had a great article in the local paper.
- Many of you may have seen this article comparing fertilizer runoff to the BP oil well disaster. Please read that as signifying the problem of fertilizer runoff rather than diminishing the environmental issues of the BP oil well spill. The fertilizer that you put on your yard does not all get used there, sometimes little of it does. With our porous soils it washes away, on the surface or into the ground water which flows underground into our ponds. There it stimulates the growth of algae which use up the oxygen in the water when they die and kills life in both our salt-water and fresh-water ponds. Save The Bay has a booklet online giving ways to make your backyard Bay(or Pond)-Friendly.
On a more international note...
- I roll my eyes at the branding of Socialist Medicine hysterics in the USA. Well in Britain there is a parallel label spelling doom for any politician tagged with it - "American-style medicine". While some of our politicians hold out the British system for medical delivery as some sort of bogeyman it seems that the British themselves are happy with it, thank you very much, at least compared with the prospect of American-style nightmare medicine that best-serves the rich. Details here.
One last thing, I hope it makes your day if you're the type who drives up to Whole Foods to get some Humboldt Fog cheese.
Author: Tom Ferrio