What unusual item have you discovered in a book ?
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What's the most unusual item you successfully sell?
Comments (5)I tried artichokes a couple of times but found Ohio is too far north to get decent sized chokes or many of them. So had to sell them for something like $2 a piece for undersized artichokes so they did not sell. I found artichokes, being a tender perennial really need a couple of years to get going but also cannot take winter temps below -10F, even with heavy mulch. I believe cardoons are the same way (close relative). Bitter melons will sell as long as you have a SE Asian population. But any of this will sell as long as you know how to cook it, enjoy eating these items and can tell your customers what to do with them. My most unusual item last year was celeriac which started selling well once I got a handle on when to harvest and how to prepare it...See MoreWhat's your one spendy food item that you just have to have in yo
Comments (101)Ok... after reading more I realize we have a few more splurges that had not occurred to me at the time. Tomatoes on the vine or any good garden type tomato. I cannot abide a thick skinned mealy supermarket kind. Any San Marzano tomatoes for sauce work fine. It must be the soil or that water.... Sangria jelly, whenever I can find it. It is ridiculously good. The smoked whitefish spread at Costco. We have that in our house at all times. If cheese were less fattening, I'd have a whole fridge dedicated to it. As it is, I splurge on "eating cheese" (as opposed to cheese for cooking or grated cheeses) when we have guests. I love the horseradish cheddar kind or the champagne cheddar and any good asiago variety is my fave. I nibble it to try to make it last. I think I lived on a half cheese diet when pregnant as it was one of the few things that did not turn my stomach. Virginia ham is also a little splurge as it is usually more expensive than other kinds. It tastes like deli ham is supposed to taste to me. The other kinds are ok,and I'll buy them when they are much lower, but Virginia style is superior. German sausages from the German butcher are also a splurge. They carry the good European bread to go with their amazing cold cuts. I count what I buy there as eating out prices, and consider it lucky that we are not tipping for it, lol. I guess it is a way to justify those prices for eating at home and having it cost so much, lol....I don't even know what the price per lb is and prefer not to know. It is the one time I don't know prices out of everything else I do in life and hope to never know as it would ruin it for me. I get a large bag of stuff and it is spread out over several meals, but is probably our largest splurge, only done once in a while..... We do only drink imported beer and since most domestic is so awful, don't even consider that a splurge. It is a necessity to drink the better quality. After becoming used to German/Austrian beer over there, it is impossible to accept less. It sounds snobby, but if anyone did a side by side comparison, they'd forgive us ;) Luckily, we don't drink quantity. Often, dh and I will split a beer with dinner just to accompany certain foods. Our fave wine is a German reisling by Schmitte Sonne, which has a screw top, so is not crazy expensive, but it does cost more than many other whites we could buy instead. Since we buy by the case, we cut the costs some. It is always a hit when we bring some as a hostess gift....See MoreWhere is the most unusual place you have read a book?
Comments (14)In 1969, in a tiny bathroom that lacked a sink, located in the hall outside our tiny apartment. I was recently married and a teacher when I learned of a book that was written as a hoax, each chapter by a different writer. "Naked Came the Stranger" was written in the attempt to prove that any book could sell, no matter how badly written, if it included enough trite sex. I took the book to the bathroom to read the first chapter while I was otherwise occupied, and after that chapter I never deemed the book worthy of escaping the bathroom. Here is the Wiki description of the book and its authors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger I'm amused that the title came to me as soon as I read this thread's question. The book did sell well even before the hoax was revealed....See MoreWhat books have you reread the most times?
Comments (64)Astrokath, somehow your post slipped in stealthily between Annpan's and Carolyn's about their dads' gusto storytelling. It wasn't visible to me before today. It's a good thing that I like to reread threads or I would have missed your response entirely. 2004! Wow, it's been fourteen years since you began working at the bookshop. I remember when you first told us that you were considering taking the job, and all of us RPers told you to go for it. We thought it sounded great for you. We must have been right! :-) Kath, I like to associate books with particular people. I'm not sure why I recalled your Tess remark so vividly except it was amusing, although it was about a book I liked and you didn't. Of course I also link you with the Outlander books, the Morland Dynasty series (btw, I've read through the twentieth one; I think it's called The Winter Journey), and The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists. The last one I frequently dip in and dip out. I remember now that you liked Leon Uris a lot. I often make note in my book logs who mentioned such-and-such books and authors. I also note who liked what or sometimes who didn't like something. I probably would see your name many times in my records....See Moremsmeow
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