Need a Good Reason to Spot the Newt? This month’s lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will win a basket of delicious gluten free baking mixes from Little Bay Baking Company of Newmarket. www.littlebaybaking.com Little Bay Baking Company is a proud member of NH Made (www.nhmade.com), the state’s official non-profit booster of locally generated products and services. (Just for the record,…
The strawberry fields will soon be ready for picking. Everybody knows by now that the strawberry is the only fruit with seeds on the outside, but did you know that there are more than 200 seeds on just one berry? Strawberries are also one of the lowest-calorie fruits available. One cup of strawberries, about 12 smaller berries (144 grams), contains…
When summer sways lazily on every green branch something stirs within us and we want to break free and wander. The vacation was invented as a response to this urge: We leave routines behind and experiment with pure freedom for a week or two. Right? Well, according to 17th-century killjoy philosopher Thomas Hobbes, that’s all an illusion. Everything you’ll do…
In the restaurant business culinary staffers seem to be constantly on the move – sometimes that change is good. *** You could easily drive by Bontá Restaurant in Hampton. You might turn your head to take in the rambling Tuscan-style building, but keep on driving. In its out-of-the-way location on Rte. 27, it looks quiet and sophisticated, like a private…
Since when is “first-in-the-nation” N.H. a runner-up? This month former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will visit Iowa and speak to movers and shakers. It’s his second trip there since winning the Iowa Caucuses as a presidential candidate last year. He isn’t the only one visiting Iowa lately. Joining him are other potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates like Louisiana Governor Bobby…
Couch potatoes, arise! Stephen Priest sees his torn Achilles tendon as “good fortune.” Without the injury (now years ago) he wouldn’t have become an outdoor enthusiast nor written a book about it. When Priest’s doctors told him that there was an even chance the tendon would tear again in the future, he set out to prove them wrong. He began…
Back then they really knew how to pinch a penny … New Hampshire thrift and ingenuity are in style during this latest era of economic hardship. Financial gurus argue that penny-pinching is counter-productive to an under-stimulated economy, but who wants to be the last spendthrift standing when his friends are home, sitting on their nest egg? My North Sutton coffee…
There are some tempting tax credits available for those homeowners willing to invest in renewable energy. When President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (better known as the Stimulus Bill) back in February, the debate was so huge and the price tag so large that a few things seemed to fall through the cracks. One such item has…
The good, the bad and the fattening … If you are what you eat, then many of us are probably experiencing a bit of an identity crisis. After all, it’s easy to be confused when faced with a steady stream of conflicting reports about what’s good for us. Eggs are in – no wait, they’re out. Well, maybe just the…
