Well Fed On the Town

I love traveling and finding the ‘foodie’ places in a city, but every once in a while, I find that there’s a local foodie place that I’ve either forgotten about or never even visited. Cincinnati has one of those places.

Findlay Market is in the Over-The-Rhine area of Cincinnati, just north of downtown. This […]

In line with local shopping/dining/markets, one of my favorite things in fall is going to local apple orchards. I love getting fresh apples picked on the premises, and my favorite orchard also presses their own cider.
Cider is like liquid autumn to me. The taste reflects the colors of the season. Stolz’s Fruit […]

One thing that local kitchen stores often offer is the ability to learn bits from chefs that are in the area. Instead of long-term classes at a culinary school, customers can take a 3 hour class at a very reasonable price.
The variety is part of what makes this fun. One of the local […]

I’m a nut for kitchen stores. I don’t know when this happened, but it’s true. I can’t pass up a Williams-Sonoma for the life of me, even though they all have the same stuff. I still have to look!
With my tendency to like local shopping, though, I find myself preferring local kitchen […]

This is my last installment on the local market (at least for now). The major departments are done, with the exception of groceries. The market I’ve been picking on, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), in Dayton and Springboro, Ohio, has the typical shelves full of cereal, oils, flour, sugar, candy, etc.
What’s different about DLM than chain […]

I’m used to chain grocery wine departments. They offer a smattering of international wines, usually cheap Pino Grigio and Chianti from Italy, along with standard California wines and cheap Aussie wines. You can find some decent wines here, and, locally, some Kroger stores actually have walk in wine coolers for their better wines. […]

I’m now back to looking at my local market, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), and the next department in the store is my personal favorite, the Meat Department!
Meat departments seem to fall into one of two basic categories

Feed the family as cheaply as possible
Offer the best quality product

I have to say that DLM definitely falls into […]

Next in the line of departments that I’m going through at my favorite local market, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), in the Dayton, Ohio, area is the seafood department.
What makes one seafood department any different from another? There are a few criteria that I look for:

Freshness. This one is obvious, but a lot of people seem […]

The next department on my continuing series on local markets brings us to the cheese department.
What makes a local market’s cheese department different?  There are two main things, to me.  The first is selection.  Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), the same market I’ve been picking on in my other posts, differs from the typical market in […]

To continue looking at the local market, I’m again using my favorite local market, Dorothy Lane Market (DLM), in the Dayton, Ohio, area. So far, I’ve looked at the bakery and produce departments, and the next one in line is the deli.
DLM’s deli is really something, in my opinion. They have a good […]