The cure for winter
My friend Patti-the-analyst-in-training and I were having coffee this morning, and she told me her son had gotten an iTouch. I told her I wanted an iPhone, but it wasn't going to happen unless I bought it in the middle of winter to cheer myself up.
"Ah," she said. "Retail therapy."
I love this concept. It's much cheaper than psychotherapy (well, OK, maybe not the iPhone) and as far as I can tell, just as effective. ...
Since this is a food blog, we'll stick to food retail therapy.
I spend too much money on meat in the winter, something I can do without in the summer. I buy good chocolate. Lattes. And, of course, out-of-season produce.
But the ultimate in winter food retail therapy, it seems to me, is fruit from Harry & David, those enormous Royal Riviera pears that squirt juice all over you when you eat them and are almost too big to finish. I love those pears.
I know Whole Foods and even Giant carry Comice pears now, but they aren't therapeutic unless they come from Harry & David. Retail therapy, like psychotherapy, has to be expensive to work.
(Photo courtesy of Harry & David)
Comments
I love those Harry and David pears! I think they are just simply the best pears ever. How they do it amazes me. They are packing these things up in some warehouse somewhere and they taste like they've been just picked.
BTW, I also am a devotee of their tomato relish. V. delicous on burgers, and plain cheese on toasted english muffin, good in omeletes and great with cream cheese and anything from the "ito" food group (dorito, cheetos, etc).
Posted by: Joyce W. | October 11, 2008 2:46 PM
Oh, yes! They are so good. They taste like you just picked them off the tree. How do they do that?
Posted by: Rosebud | October 12, 2008 8:36 AM
Hint, y'all: buy Harry & David's "maverick" pears. They're a little smaller but just as tasty, and they may have a tiny blemish from being brushed by a branch or whatever. They're considerably less expensive than the Royal Rivieras.
Posted by: Dottie | October 14, 2008 9:58 PM
I'm kinda done with mavericks these days.....
Posted by: Eve | October 15, 2008 8:42 AM