I'm going to admit that I'm really not all that knowledgeable when it comes to coffee. I'm just not. I sorta know what a café au...

It's been a busy December, as Decembers often are. There's decorating, shopping, and holiday gatherings and whatnot. I often get s...

In the past, Trader Joe's has demonstrated an uncanny knack for nailing all things gingerbread-ish. Case in point:  the cookie butter ...

I remember it well. Circa 2004, I walked into Jamba Juice on Ventura Boulevard near my old apartment in Sherman Oaks, CA; the same Jamba Ju...

Y'know, Trader Joe's has had some odd names and silly packaging for some of their products before, but this one...this might be th...

Sandy and I could not do anything else other than look at each other and make a quizzical face. We were away for the weekend at a resort in ...

I have a confession to make to you, dear readers. I have an addiction that I don't think I can stop. This isn't so different from yo...

In a previous post , it was established that I have a fear of carrot juice. I've never been a fan of the original V-8 or any other veget...

Wait, wait, what? I thought this was a Trader Joe's blog reviewing Trader Joe's products. Where's the "Trader" charact...

Ah, beer. Probably like most folks ,I fairly distinctly remember my very first sip of brew. I was seventeen, off to college (I was a young...

In summers past, Sandy and I have had the privilege of going to some pretty remote towns in Mexico for a week to help out with some medical ...

"Kefir" is actually pronounced "Keh-FEAR," although so many people use the popular mispronunciation "KEY-fur,...

So, I didn't grow up in Pittsburgh but have lived in the city for just over eight years now, and in the meanwhile have learned all sorts...

When I hear the word "Dynamo," I think of the overweight, opera-singing, lightning-slinging baddie from 1987's The Runni...

So, not to bore you too much with the details of my day job, but I work in a cubicle farm for a rather large pharmacy where I work to fix wh...

Here it is, right at the start of another month, and thus another fresh opportunity for the Pittsburgh home office of the WG@TJ's team t...

It's hard to admit it, but I was wrong. I was wrong about the blackberry. No, not the smartphone (I'm still not a fan of those cra...

Fun fact: California produces 65% of the peaches in the US. But there are peach orchards all over the place. Even my hometown of Chambersbur...

As a young boy, my parents would regularly take me to visit my grandparents and various elderly friends of the family. During these visits I...