(Published on surfKY News on January 26, 2012)
In 1932, the manager of San Antonio's Highland Park Confectionery purchased a corn chip recipe for $100 and started his own corn chip business in his mother's kitchen. Charles Elmer Doolin and his mother produced the corn chips, which they sold for five cents per bag. They soon outgrew the confines of the kitchen and started producing the chips in warehouses in Houston and Dallas and became known as The Frito Company. In 1945, The Frito Company merged with the H.W. Lay & Company to become Frito-Lay, Inc. and in 1965 merged with Pepsi-Cola to create a new company called PepsiCo. Today, PepsiCo is the largest globally distributed snack food company.
Corn chip are very versatile, they can be loaded with salsa or dip, they can be crumbled into soups, chili’s and salads and they can even be used to make haystacks. Corn chips were considered a food group in my younger days and my favorite meal in the school lunch room was Mexican Haystacks.
(Published on surfKY News on January 19, 2012)
“When they are little, they step on your feet. When they grow up, they step on your heart”. If you have had any part of raising a child, you are probably familiar with this quote, which is one of my favorites. Another of my favorites was quoted by the infamous television father, Cliff Huxtable, “I brought you into this world......and I'll take you out!”
When I was pregnant, I did a lot of reading and researching on parenting. With all this information, I just knew that I could be a wonderful parent and have a terrific child. I forgot the part about the child having his own brain!
(Published on surfKY News on January 12, 2012)
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th. If you have this phobia, you may stay home on this day, stay away from ladders and black cats, and you may try really hard not to break a mirror. If anything bad happens to you on this day, you may always associate bad luck with this day.
Many cities do not have a 13th street or avenue and many buildings do not have a 13th floor. Legend has it that if 13 people sit down to dinner together, one will die within the year. Some people that were not so lucky on Friday the 13th include Al Capone, who was sentenced to prison on a Friday the 13th, Tupac Shakur, who was shot and killed on a Friday the 13th and Hubert Humphrey, the 38th Vice President of the United States who died on a Friday the 13th.
(Published on surfKY News on January 5, 2012)
Old Man Winter made his entrance in an amazing way this past weekend. Saturday, I was wearing short sleeves and no jacket. Sunday, I was freezing so much my teeth were chattering. You know what they say about Kentucky weather, “If you don't like it, wait a few hours, it will change.”
I am like an old wasp. When I get cold, I find it very hard to do anything, which really does not make sense. I know that if I would get up and move around, I would get warmer. Seems that I, like a lot of people, complain about being too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. I am never happy with the weather.
