Oh Snap! Pickling Co

Pickles.  I love pickles.  I grew up in a pickling family, always with our own homemade pickles of all kinds - yes, dill spears, but also my favorite bread and butter pickles, dilly beans, pickled asparagus, pickled beets, and mixed pickles of all kinds.  My mother made pickles, my great aunt made incredible pickles, pickles, pickles everywhere.  We did not have store bought pickles in the house ever, and to this day, I find most commercial pickles...

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James Hook & Co Seafood, Boston

When visiting Boston, most people who eat seafood seek out lobster rolls at least once.  It is what you do.  And while I think lobster is fine, I don't adore it, find it pretty overrated and $$$, and honestly prefer crab most of the time anyway.  But hey, when in Rome ...During my recent visit to Boston, I decided to actually go for the lobster.  My first night, I had what turned out to be the best lobster roll of my life, no question, from...

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Delta First Class, BOS - SFO

I've only flown with Delta airlines a few times, all in the past two years.  The first time is when they introduced a brand new aircraft, the A321Neo, and just happened to be flying it on the route I take to visit my family, San Francisco to Boston.  Prices were dramatically better than my usual JetBlue, so, I tried it.  I wasn't particularly impressed, as you may have read about then.  It just doesn't compare to the experience of having a suite...

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Wellsley Farms

"BJ's" is a common noun around my parent's house these days.  A regular on the weekend agenda.  "Gotta leave time on Sunday for BJ's!", mom will say with no touch of irony in her voice.  "Dad and I are doing date night at Panera, and then BJ's!", she'll say with glee, as I stifle my lols.  "Gotta make it hasty with BJ's".  It goes on and on, and I giggle like a silly school girl, but, BJ's is a big deal for them.  That is because she's...

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