We have been getting a lot of catalogs lately. It is that time of year after all. Lots of these catalogs have special foods for the Holidays. We got one today that had us on the floor laughing. On further thought, I have decided that it isn’t that funny. The catalog is from Spain and has a lot of lovely looking Spanish dishes. It is very nice to look at ,and then I started to look at the prices. WOW! I am use to having the prices in these speciality catalogs be two or three times the higher than Central Market, so I was paging through; until I got to the front of the catalog and about dropped my teeth. The offering was an 15 pound free range, smoked and hung for four years, ham. Price $950.00. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, I am just dumbfounded. Needless to say we will not be buying anything from this catalog.
From the ridiculous to the sublime, we had curried chicken for dinner and it was good, if I do ay so myself. I will be shopping tomorrow.
Loaves and the Fishline 
Two years ago a friend sold me a free range organic Bourbon Red turkey for Thanksgiving. It was 14 pounds and paid her $25. The Washington Post had a story about heritage turkeys and said that the same turkey in DC would have been $250!
250 I kind of understand but $950.00? Maybe just little sillier