What Marsha Eats

I am a cook, a baker, and a flexitarian whose recipe weaknesses (in no particular order) are: BBQ chicken, chili, cake, granola, and quick breads. I'm also a hopeless reblogger of food-related articles, memes, and stuff. And I'll sprinkle in recipes, including ones I've been making since the late 90s.

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From Mindfully Made Motherhood

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The Best Foods for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

You know you need to eat a heart-healthy diet with HOCM, but which foods are best, and which should you avoid? Start your grocery list here.

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https://www.allrecipes.com/the-safest-glassware-to-buy-for-baking-7253771?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a56882aa34a4b0001b33d92&utm_campaign=allrecipes&utm_content=bestof_90days&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwdGRzaATEh3pjbGNrBMSG92V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHq9GPW9LT3Z60hxEdfYX6A3rx915A-1l8y7tsv6inM8KHEV03su_cifIDGZ__aem_ZrHneOCovaVFL2l2ni81EQ&sfnsn=mo

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I Caramelized Onions in Half the Time—with a Microwave

Low and slow is not the only way.

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From the FB pg Remembering Retail

While I explored this building a bit through it being a former A&P and SuperFresh, I didn't go into talking about The Fresh Market, its concept, and this store I captured in an exclusive Remembering Retail photo taken 6/6/2026 in Towson, MD.

The Fresh Market story begins in Greensboro, NC in 1982. Ray and Beverly Berry opened a store in a former Bi-Rite to be a better grocery store inspired by the European-style markets.

This store focuses heavily on prepared foods, fresh food concepts, and high-end meat, seafood and bakery items while selling gourmet, boutique and hard-to-find items you won't often see elsewhere. This is a small-scale foodie paradise type of place, and there's now 160 of them across the US, largely in the Southeast, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic. They go as far west as Tulsa, and once tried to operate in California but quickly closed a few stores in the Sacramento area.

Have you ever been to one? I hadn't before this, but I had heard about them. They're pretty cool, and there are things I'd have definitely purchased had it not been hot and I was a little too far from home. I increasingly love stores like this as they provide something different and interesting from the norm.

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From the FB pg Retail Dead or Alive

Who remembers the international days at Kmart?

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In 1937, a town in Texas built a statue in honor of a cartoon sailor and put it in the middle of the town square. They weren’t joking around. He literally saved their entire economy.

Popeye first chugged a can of spinach on screen in 1931, purely because the animators needed a quick visual gag for an instant strength power-up. Spinach was cheap, canned well, and read clearly on black-and-white film. That’s it. That’s the whole reason.

But America was in the middle of the Great Depression, and spinach farmers were struggling badly. Then kids everywhere started watching a cartoon where the toughest guy on screen got his power from a vegetable can, and something wild happened: they actually started eating it. By 1937, US spinach consumption had jumped 33 percent. A national survey that decade found kids ranked spinach as their third favorite food, right behind turkey and ice cream.

Crystal City, Texas, called itself the Spinach Capital of the World and put up a statue of Popeye in 1937 to thank him personally.

It’s still standing today. An iconic on-screen joke about a sailor eating canned vegetables accidentally rescued an entire American crop during one of the worst economic collapses in the country’s history.

eatshistory.com

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Reducing the Risk From Arsenic in Rice - Consumer Reports

Arsenic in rice can harm your health. Consumer Reports' 2026 tests identify rices low in arsenic. Plus CR has tips for reducing the risk fro

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Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell in 1962, with the first restaurant opening in Downey, California, serving tacos and other Mexican-inspired foods from a small walk-up window. We see by the phonetic spelling of some menu items that not all Americans are overly familiar with the Spanish names. Though it was a fast food restaurant, Taco Bell was very much influencial in helping Americans acccept Mexican food and making it a part of daily life. Taco Bell expanded significantly across the U.S. in the late 1960s and 1970s

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