Tuesday, June 25, 2013

TWINKIES DUE BACK IN STORES IN JULY : AMERICANA

We never bought a whole lot of TWINKIES but once they disappeared off the shelf we wanted some.   We wanted those simple cakes with just the right amount of cream filling.  You see Twinkies are such an American Tradition that they've become AMERICANA!

Twinkies will be back to the stores July 15 2013, along with the new owners emphasis on NEW PRODUCTS, such as whole grain.

NPR BLOG ON HOSTESS CAKES RETURNING JULY 15 link!

EXCERPT" Hostess is owned by Apollo Global Management LLC (APO) and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co., whose combined offer of as much as $410 million for company's snack-cake enterprise was the only one submitted during the bankruptcy process in March. The spongy yellow cakes went out of production, prompting bidding wars for boxes on auction sites like EBay."


Thursday, June 6, 2013

AMERICAN SUMMER READING : SHORT STORIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS

Probably the whole best seller list here in the USA is American authors but we were thinking about reading some classic SHORT STORIES by American authors.  Who to read?

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Katherine Ann Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald...