Recent Posts Tagged With 'shopping'

• Holiday Gift Guide, Part Three

  Posted on Tuesday December 16th, 2008 at 11:47 in shopping, southern food

  Christmas is just over a week away! Here's our final installment in our holiday gift ideas -- Alabama food goodies. Whether you want to open the eyes of friends and relatives to the bounty under their nose, or share Alabama's deliciousness with those...

• Last Day to Order Tamales!

  Posted on Friday December 12th, 2008 at 07:00 in shopping

  Today is the last day you can order Christmas tamales through the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama. Since 2003, Birmingham area residents have bought more than 21,000 tamales through this annual fundraising event. HICA uses the money to teach E...

• Holiday Gift Guide, Part Two

  Posted on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 10:45 in shopping, southern food, coffee & tea

  With a lot of people cutting down on their eating out budgets because of the economy, a restaurant gift certificate makes a nice gift. Just call the restaurant you have in mind and ask how to order. But what if you're not sure which restaurants your ...

• Holiday Gift Guide, Part One

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 10:46 in books, shopping

  Books are a great Christmas gift. I love local bookstores, like Alabama Booksmith and Little Professor, and I also love shopping online. Here are a few suggestions for the food lovers on your gift list (click on the titles to read more at Amazon.com)...

• Tria: Market or Restaurant?

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 20:56 in shopping, restaurant news, foodie reflections

  So I went to pick up my turkey at Tria Market in Homewood last week (delicious turkey, by the way, from Alabama's Bates Turkey Farm -- see previous post on "Turkey Time"), and was a bit taken aback by the construction of a restaurant-within-a-store t...