


The expense of vegetables transported over long distances, or even of local farmers’ market vegetables, motivates some of us to grow our own. Many of us are trying to grow vegetables for lots of reasons this summer, and almost all of us are hoping to succeed with very little water. Expect squash, carrots, lettuce, strawberries, garlic basil, parsley, radicchio and potted herbs and more. Sweetwater Spectrum Farm Stand opens tomorrow, Saturday, June 21, for the first of farm manager Rachel Kohn Obut’s Saturday sales. We never talk about lunch.”Īpparently Dunkin’ does most of its business before 11 a.m., and the snack sandwiches of fried chicken, tuna salad and grilled cheese on “Texas toast” (400 to 600 calories) are intended to draw customers in during the afternoon and are designed to “eat on the go.” Dunkin’ Donuts is based in Canton, Massachusetts. CEO Nigel Travis protested, “We’re not moving into lunch. Jumping to the assumption that “unit” in this case means store, it turns out the deep fried carb vendor also intends to open restaurants that offer non-breakfast savory sandwich options. Holy donut holes! Dunkin’ Donuts seems to be fighting off Tim Horton’s move into the northeast by planning to jump west and open “1,000 units” in California, with the first “unit” invading Santa Monica. Do they mean anything to anyone? What to the do with it? What does it look like? Certainly no one ever sees that in cash. It used to be that “real money” was in the thousands, then hundreds of thousands, then millions, and now billions are casually passed around like nickels. It now includes more than 30,000 restaurants worldwide. If you make restaurant reservations online, you helped this sale happen: Priceline Group just bought OpenTable for $2.6 billion, with a ‘B.’ Is anyone else suffering whiplash from all these billions flying around? Chuck Templeton founded OpenTable in 1998 in San Francisco to help locals make restaurant reservations online.
