Dear Customers, With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Sunday this year, sales of corned beef – both rounds and flats – were better than usual.  I guess it could be attributed to people having the day off and having more time to putter around the kitchen.  Most years, when the holiday falls mid-week, the…

Dear Customers, There’s something about the first week of March that I find comfortingly hopeful!  Sure, it’s still rainy, snowy, icy, gray and cold some days, but there exists the possibility of the complete opposite occurring.  You get it all in March!  But at least the ultra-cold temperatures are behind us and perennial bulbs have…

Dear Customers, Many years ago, one of the member stores at the now defunct Olean Wholesale, got the innovative idea of staging a “Beef Bonanza”.  Originally, beef was the only animal featured, but regardless, it was a huge success.  So much so that the idea began traveling around to all the member stores as a…

Dear Customers, In the year I was born, 1954, a movie was released that I wouldn’t even see for several more decades!  It was a romantic musical set in the highlands of Scotland and concerned a magical village that only appeared out of the Scottish mists for one day every 100 years. I feel like…

Dear Customers, Today is President’s Day!  It originally was celebrated to honor Abraham Lincoln whose birthday was last week on February 12th and George Washington, born on the 22nd of this month.  So why does it not fall on either of those dates?  Why, the answer is simple – so the Federal Government could avail…

Dear Customers, A few weeks ago, I mentioned there were very few reasons to celebrate during the month of February.  One of them was held yesterday in Super Bowl LVIII, (or “58” if you didn’t have Mrs. Hergenrother for Latin).  The next one happens on Wednesday of this week and it’s for lovers, budding friendships…

Dear Customers, I remember lying on the floor in front of our family’s first color television on Sunday afternoon, January 15th, 1967, waiting for the start of the AFL-NFL World Championship football game.  As a seventh grader, I wasn’t particularly engrossed in what became known later as the first Super Bowl, but I tuned in…

Dear Customers, With January 2024 in the books as of this week, we can begin looking forward to February.  There are but a few important events to distinguish the 2nd month, however.  The Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day and the Daytona 500 are the main events on the schedule for February. You’ll notice amongst the “notables”,…

Dear Customers, As we complete the first full month of Winter this week, it becomes more and more important that we eat healthy and well to maintain and even improve our overall health. When our ancestors sought to preserve food to last them through the lengthy winter months, they employed canning, salting, drying as well…

Dear Customers, We find ourselves safely ensconced in the middle of the month of January, with little to look forward to on the near horizon – other than the obvious of course; frigid temperatures, snow, ice, dark gray skies and at least three seed catalogs in every day’s mail! Fortunately for a few more weeks,…