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Chicken salad. Fried chicken. Potato wedges.* White house rolls. All are great. But truth be told, the bakery takes hold of my appetite as soon as I walk through the door. With the final sale looming on Monday, I decided to enjoy a few of my favorites in these “last days.” In no particular order: [...]

It was a long time before I met James R., but James R. sure knew a lot about me. In the summer of ’04, James R. heard about my experience in Zimbabwe, and when he asked about the story, he heard about how we were detained by the authorities. When I wrote a story in [...]

What are they? A sugar cookie? It’s a palette of red, yellow and green in a tasty treat. But it’s more than a cookie, they are a memory. For a long time, the Ukrop’s bakery kept a stash of these cookies for their youngest shoppers. When I was little (or maybe when Cameron was a [...]

Ukrop’s is everywhere in Richmond: north, south, east, west. Even a few out-of-town locations through the years. While I don’t think I made it to all of them, here are a few, and some memories from them: Ashland/Hanover A few times while I was working in Mechanicsville, I would venture to Ashland and occasionally stopped [...]

Old friends were coming for dinner, and we had just returned from a New Year’s Eve trip. We needed a few things from the store to round out the menu, so I took the short drive to the Ukrop’s outside our neighborhood. It didn’t take long to fill the shopping basket, and I headed for [...]

In case you missed the circus act in the RIC this week, Crazyville Richmond is getting a new entertainment baseball venue team. As Mr. Domino and his staff are sorting through the mediocrity of their four choices for a team name, Bart Hinkle uncovered a hilarious commentary from 1903. Apparently New York had this same [...]