Monday, monday...

Welcome to a new week… this one will be sort of busy for your loyal Feeder, as our local Rotary Club will be hosting (volcanic cloud permitting) a visiting group of Rotarians from the Czech Republic. We’ll be having one of them staying at the digs, so it will be a lot of chauffer duty. All of which is to say that it may be a bit spotty in the posting department..

But, looking back on a busy weekend (I hope you could find something to do) we started off by attending the lecture by Dr. Henry Miller down at the visitor center at Historic St. Mary’s City, An Archaeological View of Food in Colonial Maryland. It wasn’t so much on how they ate as what they ate. Through the archeological evidence of bones, it can be determined what kind and how much of animals they lived on. The introduction of corn from the Native Americans was a big part of the diet. Not surprisingly it turns out that beef was the prime source of meat, with fowl and fish substantially less. Sheep, a staple in England, didn’t thrive very well here so it wasn’t until there was a lot of pasture land available that they were more plentiful. Venison also played a part in their diet. Lots of charts and graphs, interesting stuff..

We also had occasion to go over to Woodburn’s on the Solomons and visit the “re-organized” store. They’ve sort of shuffled around the produce section, they have a much better selection of cheeses now, along with lots of kinds of crackers. The “Panini” section is torn up just now, so don’t know what the plans for that are. They still have a very nice meat section with a real guy with a knife working behind the counter. Being a busy Sunday morning we didn’t Dress For Shopping very much and of course we ran into a couple of friends… sigh..

Did you see/hear the fire in the apartments behind Wal-Mart? You can see it from 235 as you sit in traffic.

In the foodie department I heard that DiGiovanni’s is changing hands.

And, speaking of foodie things, it appears that Restaurant Week will actually happen here in the County, so stay tuned for news of that. It will feature locally owned and operated restaurants although the list of participants isn’t complete as of yet. Good stuff coming!!